Anonymous member Topiary, otherwise known by his real name Jake Davis, is out on bail and not allowed to be on the Internet. But, according to him, life is much more fulfilling without it.
Apple responded today to the hack on 12 million UDIDs, or the unique number associated with iOS devices, after hacker collective Anonymous said the bounty was stolen from an FBI laptop.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations says Anonymous is lying about retrieving 12 million UDIDs, or the unique identifiers associated with Apple mobile devices, from an agency laptop.
Anonymous targeted United Kingdom government websites today in a show of solidarity with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is fleeing London to Ecuador for fear of being extradited to the United States.
The dust from SOPA and PIPA is settling, but the hacker community knows that it canbe kicked up again at any moment. In the run up to WCIT, the World Conference on Telecommunications, former ICANN chief executive Rod Beckstrom called …
Two U.K.-based youngsters believed to be a part of the LulzSec hacking group pleaded guilty to attacking the CIA website, the U.S. Air Force Agency website controlled by the Pentagon, along with a slew of others in a U.K. court …
Eager content-deprived pirates were flummoxed on Wednesday by the news that The Pirate Bay had been taken offline by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
While suspicions were almost immediately leveled at the hacktivist group Anonymous, The Pirate …
The Pirate Bay is currently experiencing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the site to remain inaccessible for the last 24 hours, reports TorrentFreak.
Members of The Pirate Bay confirmed the news with an update on their …
A high-ranking member of Anonymous recently revealed that the group has access to every classified database in the U.S. But what’s more interesting is the way Anonymous obtained this information.
“It’s a matter of when we leak the contents of …
Ohio resident John Anthony Borell III is being tried today for two counts of felony computer intrusion after hacking into Utah law enforcement websites in January.
Borell was recently arrested after Federal Bureau of Investigations agents found him using Twitter …
2011 was the year of the hacktivist, according to a study from Verizon, which shows that 100 million users saw their data compromised by Anonymous-related activities last year.
The wireless carrier’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (embedded im toto below) …
The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor.
“At least $700,000 worth of unauthorized charges were …
The indictment of five purported members of the LulzSec hacker group has been released, along with comments from the unexpected informant: assumed LulzSec “leader,” Sabu (pictured above).
LulzSec is best known for its “50 days of Lulz,” during which the …
The head of the hacker group LulzSec has reportedly given up five members of his own organization, which has strong ties to prominent hacking collective Anonymous.
LulzSec came to prominence in mid-2011, with online attacks targeting the U.S. Senate, the …
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One of the most interesting mobile apps to come out of the Occupy Wall Street protests was Vibe, created by Hazem Sayed, which allowed users to send anonymous messages in a tightly controlled distance. Betaworks recently bought the company, and …
Rehabilitating criminals is not a new concept, but their skills aren’t always as specific as those of a cyber criminal. With hacktivist arrests on the rise, perhaps it’s time for companies to realize the potential gain in employing the very …
Over the next few weeks WikiLeaks will reveal what it believes are damning Stratfor e-mails acquired from the December hack on the geopolitical analyst firm.
According to a release by the “anti-secrecy” group, over 4 million e-mails from July 2004 …
Hacker group Anonymous could have the power to take town the United States’ electrical grid this year, National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander believes.
Sources that spoke to the Wall Street Journal said the director admitted his concern over …
A handful of official U.S. government websites were hacked today in protest of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a highly controversial international trade agreement largely cooked up by media companies to protect their copyrighted content from being pirated online.
The …
The pace of attacks by cyber vigilantes seems to be increasing in 2012. Yesterday news broke that the website of the CIA was down, an attack for which Anonymous claimed responsibility. Today CNN is reporting that attacks also hit government …
