Hackers

Hackers deface Stratfor's website, steal credit card data to fund donations

Hackers, claiming to be members of Anonymous and LulzSec, have broken into the website of U.S. security firm Stratfor.

The 25 worst passwords of 2011; is yours one?

Given that most security breaches, frauds and online risks are due to weak passwords, you would think that people realize the importance of creating strong passwords.

Hackers steal car via SMS

Gone are the days when cars were stolen by breaking windows or rewiring the engine, high-tech thieves are now becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to auto theft.

Anonymous hacks BART police site‎, exposes cops' personal data

Hacktivist group Anonymous and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) continue to butt heads. Hackers broke onto a second Web site affiliated with the San Francisco Bay Area subway system Wednesday, compromising personal information belonging to more than 100 police officers.

Facebook offers hackers $500 for reporting bugs on site

Facebook is offering a bounty for the detection and reporting of bugs on its website. According to several online reports, apparently too tired of bugs which strike the social networking site often, Facebook has started paying reward for reporting bugs.

Anonymous attacks Italian cyber police, steals 8GB of data

A controversial international network of computer hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Monday that it has hacked into the website of a division of the Italian government dedicated to fighting cybercrime, and stole hundreds of secret documents.

LulzSec defaces The Sun website with Murdoch's fake death story

After a brief hiatus, LulzSec is back in action. The hacking group has attacked websites owned by Rupert Murdoch's embattled News International, and redirected traffic to a hoax story about media mogul’s suicide.

Anonymous creates own social network after Google+ removal

Hacktivist group Anonymous has been banned from Google+. But rather than resting on their keyboards the hacking group moved to establish its own social network!

Now, AntiSec exposes 90000 US military passwords

In yet another attack on a government contractor, members of the online activist group AntiSec said Monday it broke into a server run by a military contractor and stole tens of thousands of encrypted military email addresses, passwords and some other data from a large U.S. contractor.

And now, another FBI partner hacked!

As if the attack on FBI partner site InfraGard was not enough, hackers have landed another blow on the U.S. intelligence agency, this time on IRC Federal, an FBI engineering contractor.

Washington Post attacked! Hackers expose 1.27mn user IDs, passwords

Washington Post is the latest corporation to end up on the list of high-profile companies hacked so far this year.

Fox News' Twitter account hijacked; declares President Obama dead

High-profile cyber attacks continue, and FOX News becomes the latest victim in global wave of hacking attacks. Online hackers apparently have broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter account and posted a series of posts claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.