A Norwegian hacker collective that allegedly gained access to the email accounts of Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed perpetrator of killing spree that took the lives of seventy-seven individuals, may have connections to Anonymous, according to a local journalist who has had contact with the group.
A new report from the BBC claims that Anonymous’s recent attack on The Sun’s website was more than the embarrassing defacement it appeared to be, and that in addition to posting a fake story, the group may have made off with the personal information of thousands of individuals that had entered into various competitions on that site.
Scammers wasted little time generating campaigns to exploit the untimely death of troubled pop-diva, Amy Winehouse.
More than 18,000 academic documents have been copied from an online scholarly archive and posted on Pirate Bay, the file sharing Web site, but questions arose on Friday about where the documents really came from.
The practice of history sniffing, which has been seen as out-of-bounds and a serious privacy violation for the better part of a decade now, is still ongoing by some ad networks, researchers have found. A study completed recently by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society found that at least one ad network apparently is still using the technique to gather information about what links users have clicked on and which sites they’ve visited.
Google’s new social network is growing fast, with more than 10 million users in its first week of operation. That’s not too bad for an invite-only Closed Beta release! The new social network is also a hit with users, unlike previous efforts like Orkut and Buzz.
Microsoft is now offering a $250,000 reward to help track down the people behind the notorious Rustock botnet. The company, which helped take down the botnet several months ago, said that it already has some good information on the crew behind the network and is now looking for information to bring the investigation to a close.
Just days after infiltrating military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, hacktivist group Anonymous has confirmed they’ve set their next target: Big oil.
Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Stan Lee need not apply to Google’s hot new social network, Google+. The Web search giant, it seems, isn’t interested in pseudonyms or other phony identities. Its IRL (in real life) all the time – and that’s a problem, according to a spate of news articles this week. But don’t believe them.
Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks.
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