Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:47 PM/CST
McAfee addressed hacktivism in their 2012 security predictions.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:57 AM/CST
Not every outage is a cyber-attack, but if companies aren't up front about why their services are not available, customers will assume hackers are at fault.
Friday, September 02, 2011 1:02 PM/CST
U.K. police arrest someone for taking part in an Anonymous or LulzSec attack. Anonymous attacks and defaces Websites, leaks documents. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:00 PM/CST
WikiLeaks is faced with a leak of its own, as an encrypted file containing the uncensored diplomatic cables are readily on public Torrent sites.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:40 PM/CST
Apache has released the patch to close the vulnerability in its venerable Web server, which if exploited, caused a denial of service attack on the server.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:35 AM/CST
A member of Anonymous posted code for a framework to develop malware easily and efficiently and automated tools to launch attacks on PasteBin days before Black Hat and DEFcon.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:24 PM/CST
Some members of Anonymous are rallying to PS3 hacker Geohot's cause by targeting Sony Websites and digging up personal information on executives. Going after the children seem a little much, even for a group that thrives on anarchy.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:16 PM/CST
Just because a site is down doesn't mean attackers launched a DDOS attack. Except you know, when it is a DDOS attack.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:07 PM/CST
From the this-can't-possibly-be-real files: Hackers marked the 100th International Women's Day on March 8 with a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks against the Web site.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:28 AM/CST
A user recently demonstrated how a malicious peer can take advantage of other computers using BitTorrent to generate a DDOS attack, at the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin.