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The Washington Post website has been hit with a double security breach. Hackers have made off with around 1.3 million user IDs and email address from the
THC claims it can listen to any call, use other accounts to make calls and access the victim's voice mail. Hackers have claimed that they have successfully re-engineered a standard consumer hardware available from Vodafone store to intercept calls and gain administrator access into other user accounts.
Leading U.S. Government and defence consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has confirmed a breach in its cyber security, adding credence to Anonymous hackers previous claims.
British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail messages left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as celebrities, politicians, and the British royal family.
Passwords, job accounts safe, says Jobs site. The Washington Post has said that the database of its jobs site had been breached by hackers who stole about 1.27 million users' IDs and email addresses.
Apple is the latest company to come under cyber attack - by the same hackers blamed for infiltrating Sony's Playstation Network.
During the Cold War, we witnessed how military advances drove private sector - especially in aviation. Today
The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends.
Less than a week after hactivist group LulzSec called it quits, a hacker group to which its members migrated mounted separate attacks on Viacom and Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group as well as on a previous LulzSec target, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Hacker group LulzSec has struck again, this time targeting Arizona law enforcement by releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents and communications presumably acquired in a security breach. Among those documents are several that show law enforcement's special interest in the iPhone and other smart phones.
So who would you like to hack today? A bank, a website, a corporation or perhaps a government agency that's rubbing you the wrong way? The hacktivist group LulzSec is taking requests. Or maybe you'd like to get your hands on some stolen credit-card accounts to boost your personal spending level or purchase some malware that will divert a business's payments from its vendors to you.
A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a compromised user account. Mt.Gox
Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it.
Citigroup on Wednesday night said a cyber attack in May affected 360,083 of its customers, almost twice the initial number of customers originally reported.
The Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.
Games developer Codemasters has taken its website offline and advised users to change their passwords in the aftermath of a hack attack last week.
Citigroup Inc. said Thursday that hackers accessed the credit card information of North American customers, in an online security breach affecting about 200,000 accounts.
A group calling itself Lulzsec took credit for yet another high profile attacks over the weekend, compromising an information sharing program run by the FBI that counts some of the nation's leading security and private sector firms as partners, then publicizing another hack of electronics giant Sony on Monday.
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