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Article | 15/08/2011 Anonymous breaches San Francisco's public transport site
The hacking collective Anonymous released personal data on Sunday belonging to more than 2,000 public transport customers in the San Francisco area in...
Article | 6/08/2011 Has your company been infiltrated by the Shady Rat hack?
When McAfee released its <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-operation-shady-rat.pdf">Operation Shady Rat hacking report</a> e...
Article | 5/08/2011 As targeted e-mail attacks proliferate, companies wince
The strange e-mails arrived in executives' inboxes around the same time that the Australian oil company was negotiating a deal with a Chinese energy c...
Article | 4/08/2011 US warns Anonymous, LulzSec could up their game
Hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulz Security may need to be monitored more closely in the event they are assisted by other hackers with higher sk...
Article | 3/08/2011 McAfee: Hackers compromised 72 organizations since 2006
Security vendor McAfee published a detailed report on Tuesday about a hacking group that penetrated 72 companies and organizations in 14 countries sin...
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 | 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 ...
Article | 27/07/2011 SpyEye Trojan morphs to defeat online banking defenses
Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new resear...
Article | 22/07/2011 Anonymous releases restricted NATO document
The hacking collective Anonymous released a document on Thursday marked "restricted" from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Article | 21/07/2011 House panel approves data breach notification bill
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would require companies to notify affected customers about data breaches...
Article | 20/07/2011 UK parliament say phone networks didn't warn hacking victims
Two U.K. mobile phone operators took years to notify their customers that their voicemail accounts may have been illegally accessed, according to a re...
Article | 20/07/2011 Internet activist charged with hacking into MIT network
The cofounder of online news site Reddit has been charged with computer intrusion, fraud and data theft for allegedly stealing 4.8 million documents f...
Article | 20/07/2011 NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers
His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basket...
Article | 15/07/2011 Researchers finds dangerous vulnerability in Skype
A security consultant has notified Skype of a cross-site scripting flaw that could be used to change the password on someone's account, according to d...
Article | 14/07/2011 EU considers stricter data breach notification rules
The European Commission is examining whether additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the European Union.