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The FBI and Scotland Yard should be praised in their ability to track down, identify and arrest members of the related hacking organizations Anonymous and LulzSec. The cyber-sleuthing they did is not easy. When you have to do it well enough for the arrest to hold up in court, it
A South London teenager arrested on Tuesday is believed to be a core member of Lulz Security, a hacking group that penetrated security companies working with the US government, officials say.
Sixteen suspected members of "Anonymous" were arrested this morning in states across the country, from California to New York, in a federal raid on the notorious hacking group.
The United States may be forced to redesign an unnamed new weapon system now under development
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, computer security company McAfee said Tuesday in a report.
A federal judge has declined to dismiss charges against Google that it allegedly violated the Federal Wiretap Act when it collected personal data from Wi-Fi networks.
The FBI searched two US residences in the past week as part of its probe into alleged hacking by members of a now-defunct group known as Lulz Security.
The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but law enforcement
A California man has pleaded guilty to writing code that used a security flaw in AT&T's iPad interface to exposed thousands of high-profile user's personal information.
Former Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said combating groups like LulzSec and Anonymous pose a unique problem for law enforcement because
The day the authorities have been waiting for is finally here: A possible LulzSec leader has been arrested. He is 19-years-old and was arrested in Essex, England thanks to a cooperative effort between FBI and Scotland Yard.
Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA's and Senate's public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks.
Gary McKinnon, a 43-year-old British computer hacker suffering from Asperger
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a draft guide to cloud computing that includes a number of recommendations to enhance security in the cloud environment.
A UK university student has avoided jail over a malware-based scam that allowed him to break into the personal computers and webmail accounts of an estimated 100 victims.
The Obama administration today made it clear that it sees the fight against cybercrime and cyberattacks as a global effort that requires international cooperation in defining the norms of online behavior and consistently enforcing unlawful activities.
The US government has proposed a legislative package that is designed to improve the country's and its citizens' IT security. The proposal is to substantially update and revise the existing legislation in such fields as data protection and infrastructure security as well as the sanctioning of offenders.
Top US spooks are advising businesses to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7, claiming that other operating systems do not cut the mustard when it comes to security.
If there's a lesson to be learned from last year's Stuxnet worm, it's that the private sector needs to be able to respond quickly to cyber-emergencies, the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday.
In 2008 Albert Gonzalez was charged with committing the largest cyber crime in U.S. history. Today, Gonzalez claims the Secret Service, with whom he was working as a paid informant, sanctioned his actions. An examination of the facts seems to validate his claims that he is a scapegoat used to protect far deeper conspiracies.
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