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Article | 6/07/2011 DDoS attack in March likely North Korean work, says McAfee
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or partie...
Article | 4/07/2011 Sony to complete global resumption of PlayStation Network
Sony will fully restore PlayStation Network service to users in Japan this week, ending a two-and-a-half month suspension of service, and bringing to ...
Article | 28/06/2011 Groupon India data published on Internet, said researcher
The user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary, SoSasta, was published on the Internet and indexed by Google, according to an Australian security co...
Article | 26/06/2011 LulzSec calls it quits after 50 days of 'mayhem'
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time ...
Article | 23/06/2011 Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring
Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker,...
Article | 21/06/2011 UK police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack
U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with t...
Article | 20/06/2011 Reports: Sega customer database hacked
Video game company <a href="http://www.sega.com">Sega</a> had a database hacked and sensitive information on about 1.3 million customers has been comp...
Article | 18/06/2011 German men sentenced for hacking Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre
Two German men were sentenced Thursday in a Duisberg court for hacking computers containing material belonging to Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre and other musicia...
Article | 12/06/2011 IMF is victim of 'sophisticated cyberattack,' says report
The International Monetary Fund has reportedly been hit with a "large and sophisticated cyberattack" that potentially puts sensitive, confidential dat...
Article | 10/06/2011 UK health service warned of poor security by hacker group
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) said Friday that no patient data was compromised after an intrusion of one of its websites by Lulz Security, a ...
Article | 9/06/2011 Citigroup breach exposed data on 210,000 customers
Citigroup admitted on Wednesday that an attack on its website allowed hackers to view customers' names, account numbers and contact information such a...
Article | 9/06/2011 Sony's Qriocity back everywhere except Japan
Sony began restoring full service on its Qriocity entertainment network to users in most countries on Thursday, a month and a half after the service w...
Article | 7/06/2011 Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day
Hundreds of popular websites -- including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing -- are participating in a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called I...
Article | 4/06/2011 UK man arrested on Facebook hacking charges
A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested Thursday on charges that he tried to hack into the Facebook social-networking site.
Article | 2/06/2011 Google says phishers stole e-mail from US officials, others
Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors and military ...