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Article | 23/08/2011 Ukraine arrests four in carding scam
Ukraine's security service SBU said Monday it had arrested four people for allegedly creating fake payment cards with stolen information in an operati...
Article | 17/08/2011 Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company
Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company'...
Article | 10/08/2011 Booz Allen CEO downplays effect of Anonymous hack
A July cyberattack on Booz Allen Hamilton will not materially harm the company's bottom line, its CEO said Tuesday.
Article | 8/08/2011 AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites
The war between law enforcement and the Anonymous hacking collective continued this weekend as hackers dumped a 10 gigabyte database that included pri...
Article | 7/08/2011 Three tips for a better Anonymous
Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis?
Article | 5/08/2011 Spam king Sanford Wallace indicted for Facebook spam
Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages...
Article | 4/08/2011 McAfee gets defensive: Massive cyber attack revelation not being used as a security sales tactic
McAfee today published a report that tells how it discovered evidence in a server on the Internet of stealthy intrusions, probably by an unnamed "nati...
Article | 4/08/2011 Does the Mac have an edge against state-sponsored hacking?
When hackers broke into Google's computer network nearly two years ago, their first step was to take over Microsoft Windows machines running in the co...
Article | 3/08/2011 Cybercrime fight costing companies more this year
Cybercrime cost corporations 56 percent more this year than last, according to an annual study from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ArcSight, a...
Article | 2/08/2011 Android Trojan records phone calls
A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher.
Article | 1/08/2011 Anonymous suspect 'Topiary' charged over DDOS attacks
The 18-year-old teenager identified by police as the spokesman for the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security was charged on Sunday with five offe...
Article | 30/07/2011 Anonymous releases documents it says came from ManTech
As promised, members of the Anonymous hacking movement have released hundreds of megabytes of documents that they say were stolen from government secu...
Article | 29/07/2011 E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack
About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame in...
Article | 29/07/2011 US phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence
A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took ...
Article | 28/07/2011 UK police arrest Anonymous spokesman 'Topiary'
U.K. police said Wednesday they are questioning two more teenage Anonymous suspects, one of whom they identified as "Topiary," who is a spokesman for ...