They're at it again asking followers to test the emails on Facebook and other sites.
It seems LulzSec is trying to outdo Anonymous.
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Citibank was breached by URL manipulation
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Although no statement has been released on the web site of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it has been reported by the New York Times and Bloomberg that the IMF has been the victim of a "large and serious" cyber attack.
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Sam Spade to investigate
Sony has gone all film noire and hired a bunch of private dicks to sort out its security woes.
Apparently the offices of Guidance Software and Data Forte, were approached by a broad who said they worked for one of the largest hardware companies in the world...
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Aussie boffins claim to have created a virtually unhackable data transfer.
While we know people have made this claim before, we have to admit that this technique strikes us as pretty secure, as your average script kiddie rarely has access to quantum states...
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Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack
Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD
A relatively simple hack has been used to compromise at least 500,000 Web sites, and perhaps as many as 1.5...
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The Department of Defense will employ hackers under a brave new scheme pioneered by a hacker gone straight, but will it work?
Since the dawn of computing there's been a cold war between those who run computer systems and those who attack them.
And never the twain shall meet...
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An unknown number of Link Removed after authorities discovered that hackers broke into one of the company's business partner's databases and stole information.
Computerworld quotes a McDonald's spokeswoman as saying:
We have been informed by one of our long-time business partners, Arc...
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Microsoft's decision to not allow the name of the homegroup to be changes has got to rank among the poorest ever. I have only one windows 7 machine and it would be far easier to place it in my multi-machine group than it will be if I have to change all of the other machines. This for me is a...
I notice on some other sites there are leaked updates from MS. Looking through the comments one of the posters was whining that one of the new updates broke his Activation. He said I used Hazar/Orbit 1.5 tool another poster popped up mine is still working and posted pics of it I forget the...
Ms seems pretty calm about the latest cracks to RTM. Anybody else think they are enticing hackers with some old and simple cracks left there on purpose with the hope of discovering something new that they missed before it actually gets out into the market. I think some of the hackers look at it...