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VeriSign Servers Hacked, Very Few Details Reviewed In SEC Filing

VeriSign Inc. is responsible for the integrity of web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov, directing traffic for half the world's internet users and on Thursday it revealed that company systems were hacked towards the end ... continue

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

A Romanian hacker by the name of Razvan Manole Cernaianu, also known by his nickname TinKode, was arrested after he hacked into NASA and Pentagon. Governments take hacking very seriously as for one, confidential information is hidden on ... continue

Anonymous Not Shutting Down Facebook Despite Rumors

Anonymous, a hacker group that's gained quite the buzz and reputation lately, denied that they will be taking down Facebook this weekend on January 28th. Rumors have been spiraling all over the Internet after a video surfaced ... continue

Hackers Attack Two Banking Websites And Bring Both Offline

Previously we mentioned hackers targeting a South African bank and it looks like this time, hackers went after a United Arab Emirates bank and Arab Bank. While no money was stolen in this case or user accounts ... continue

Hackers Get Away With $6.7 Million From South African Bank

Hackers continue to plug away and a recent case didn't involve worms or compromising customer data, but stealing cold hard cash. A group of hackers over a three day period, managed to get away with $6.7 Million ... continue

Israel To Hackers: “We’ll Respond The Same Way We Do To Terrorist Acts”

Israel is taking hacking quite seriously after a hacker with the name "OxOmar", said he had posted 11,000 credit card details online Thursday. This was also behind him saying that "greatest Saudi Arabian hacker team" posted details of a ... continue

Skype Vulnerability Exposes User Locations Without Permission

Using the Skype messaging and calling system can inadvertently allow users to share their physical location from people they may want to hide that information from. Researchers at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute tracked the activities of 20 ... continue

Russian Hacker Temporarily Shuts Down Water Supply In Illinois, FBI Probe Launched

An FBI and US homeland security probe has been launched after a cyber-attack suspected of originating in Russia caused a water utility pump outside of Springfield, Illinois to be shut down for a short period of time. The ... continue

Porn Hackers Attack Facebook, Users Beware

If you happen to be logging into your Facebook account today, especially from work or school we have a message for you, user beware! It turns out that a group of hacking pranksters have been sending malicious ... continue

DARPA to increase cybersecurity research spending, boost cyber arsenal

The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, recently announced plans to boost cybersecurity spending by up to 50% over the next five years. At least some of that extra cash will be devoted to boosting ... continue

News Of The World Hacked At Least 5,795 Phones [Evidence]

Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal say they have uncovered 11,000 pages of notes from professional snooper Glenn Mulcaire. In those notes investigators say Mulcaire spied on 5,795 potential victims of the phone ... continue

News Corp. Settles One Phone Hacking Scandal For $4.8 Million

News Corp. has reached a settlement in one phone hacking scandal. The company has agreed to pay the family of a murdered girl at the center of the case the sum of $4.8 million. Under the agreement the ... continue

Stuxnet creators suspected to be behind new Duqu virus

Symantec announced that a new, malicious virus, called Duqu, has been discovered, and it may have ties to the Stuxnet virus. Symantec made the discovery alongside an unnamed research lab. The company states that it appears whoever wrote ... continue

FBI Officials Arrest Celebrity Hacker Suspect

FBI officials have arrested one suspect in the celebrity hacking ring which has placed naked pictures of actresses online for the world to see. The arrest comes several weeks after the phone of Scarlett Johansson was hacked and ... continue

LulzSec Suspect Arrested In Arizona, Believed To Be Sony Pictures Hacker

Cody Kretsinger, 23, a suspected member of the hacking alliance LulzSec was arrested on Thursday in connection with the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The young hacker was charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer ... continue