The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday warned that Chinese-made software used by chemical, defense, and energy firms contains major security holes that hackers could exploit and use to harm critical systems.
With so many hacking incidents in the …
Well, that tears it. LulzSec, a band of hackers that has made headlines for a number of high-profile hacking incidents, are a bunch of gaming hipsters.
The hacking group has been gleefully attacking a lot of gaming networks such as …
A trojan horse virus that steals Bitcoins, a digital currency that people can use for transactions online, has been spotted in the wild, according to computer security software firm Symantec.
The trojan, called Infostealer.coinbit, finds a Bitcoin owner’s “digital wallet”, …
Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker group Anonymous, an action that could lead to a civil war of sorts between the two hacker groups that have similar origins.
LulzSec has begun publicly mocking 4chan.org, the image-sharing message board …
Hacker group Lulz Security is taking responsibility for breaking into the public website for the U.S. Senate, Senate.gov. Separately, the hacker group has launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign against several game sites.
Senate security confirmed the …
Citigroup on Thursday said that computer hackers broke into the bank’s network and accessed data on 200,000 North American bank card holders.
The names of customers, account numbers, and contact information, including email addresses, were viewed in the breach. Citi …
FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress today that the bureau intends to ramp up its focus on battling cyber attacks and threats during the next two years, according to Bloomberg.
“We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in …
An editorial in China’s People’s Daily newspaper on Monday said Google had become a “political tool” and warned the company that its statements concerning a recent hacking incident could hurt its business, according to Reuters report.
Last week, Google said …
British intelligence agency MI6 hacked an Al Qaeda online magazine that contained instructions for a lethal pipe bomb using sugar, matches, a tiny lightbulb and a kitchen timer.
Agents switched the section of the magazine titled “Make a bomb in …
LulzSec, the group of hackers that broke into PBS’ NewsHour website, has said it is attacking Sony — although the PlayStation Network (PSN), the company’s primary gaming network, will apparently not be involved.
“Hey @Sony, you know we’re making off …
Tupac Shakur is alive!
Not.
Check off the main news website for the Public Broadcasting System, PBS NewsHour, as the latest high-profile victim of hackers. Members of a hacker group called “LulzSec” were able to break into the site and …
Microsoft has chosen to “nurture” the talents of a 14-year-old boy who attempted to hack into the company’s online gaming network, Xbox Live, rather than slap the kid with lawsuits. The lawsuit approach to hackers is presumed to have led …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Latest rumor on iPhone 5: it will have a curved glass cover — Apple’s unannounced iPhone 5 smartphone has …
It looks like an attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website from hacktivist group Anonymous — scheduled for 8 p.m. eastern time Monday according to posts on online image board 4chan and news aggregator Reddit — passed without incident …
Service for Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is finally being restored in the US and across the globe after a long outage, but the company’s home country of Japan still hasn’t approved the restart of the service, according to a report …
Hacktivism group Anonymous, which routinely attacks major corporations and takes up political causes, said today it is not responsible for the theft of sensitive information and credit card data from Sony’s Playstation Network (PSN) online gaming network.
Sony laid indirect …
One of the most compelling reasons to jailbreak, or hack, your iPhone, is to run an app called MyWi that lets you share your iPhone’s mobile internet connection without paying a monthly fee to AT&T. But now it looks like …
Guest Post
Editor’s Note: Was the release of the drop-dead easy hacking tool Firesheep, an extension for the Firefox browser that lets users hijack passwords from others on wireless networks, ethically sound? Philosophy professor Mike LaBossiere tackles the question:
In America …
A lot of people complained about the iPad’s closed-off software. But no one did anything about it — until now, apparently.
A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple’s restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to …
The U.S. should improve its security infrastructure to deal with cyber threats, or it could wind up like the government of Estonia, brought down by hackers after a dispute with Russia.
Jaak Aviksoo, the minister of defense of the Republic …
