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A group of hackers claiming to be the reborn Lulz Security (LulzSec) took credit for an alleged compromise of MilitarySingles.com, a dating website for military personnel, and the leak of over 160,000 account details from its database.
Christopher Chaney entered guilty pleas to nine felony counts in federal court today, admitting that he hacked into dozens of celebrities' e-mail accounts, including those of Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, according to the Los Angeles Times.
If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer and package it with the same information from a hundred or a thousand other small businesses? Would it be worth something then?
Chinese hackers apparently have gained access to Microsoft problem details even before a company patch was released and security researchers are worried the leak came directly from Microsoft
Warnings have been issued to internet users who have downloaded an operating system purportedly created by members of the Anonymous hacker group.
As if things couldn't get any worse for the hacktivists of Anonymous, the self-described patriotic hacker who calls himself The Jester has struck another blow.
Hackers claim to have stolen the details of more than 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground.
If you use LinkedIn, you've probably told the site where you work, what you do and who you work with. That's a gold mine for hackers, who are increasingly savvy in using that kind of public -- but personal -- information for pinpoint attacks.
A group of Italian hackers who claim to be members of the loose-knit international gang of cyber criminals known as "Anonymous" took down the Vatican's website for a number of hours Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Cybercrooks broke into NASA's computer systems 13 times last year gaining "full functional control" of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress by the space agency's inspector general.
The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out internet attacks on well-known organisations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.
But this does not seem to be an obstacle for my anonymous source, whom I met on the first day of the conference. A risk management and physical security expert, he is in the business of "pen-testing humans" via social engineering, he said, and he also has an expertise in event security. I met him while I was covering the event, and he agreed to give me details of how he snuck into RSA in a matter of minutes without any credentials
A million logins for the hugely popular YouPorn sex site appear to have been leaked after a hacker chanced upon a URL linking to a user list apparently left exposed for several years.
Remember the infamous Storm spamming botnet that later re-emerged as Waledac and was later silenced in a high-profile takedown led by Microsoft? It's baaaack -- and this time it's performing more malicious activity than sending annoying spam messages.
Google Wallet, which initially launched in September of 2011, has decided to temporarily suspend its provisioning of prepaid cards as a result of two newly discovered security vulnerabilities. Recently, a security research team uncovered a potential threat to the overall security of the Google Wallet.
It's been a while since we've had a security breach worth mentioning (that we know of). Last week we had one, and it was an eye-opener.
Yesterday, researchers outlined a complicated way to crack the Google Wallet PIN used to make purchases with the smartphone-based payment system. Now there's a new hack that could let a stranger gain access to the funds of Wallet users.
App is vulernable to quick brute-force attacks on rooted phones. Near field communications (NFC) technology has been around overseas for over half a decade now, but it's finally jumping from the Asian market to the United States.
Foxconn, the gargantuan Chinese manufacturing backend for much of the tech industry, has developed a reputation as one of the world
A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.
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