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In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDnet reports. The hackers say they wanted to demonstrate the sites insecurity to get them to fix their vulnerabilities. Read Full Story: Hackers Claim 177K Email Addresses from...

While British coppers and the FBI were celebrating the bloke they thought was the mastermind of LulzSec and were preparing to chuck the book at him, it appears that he might have been grassed up by the hacker group Anonymous This is a great article relating to the 19-year old hacker that was...

An online security firm says hackers are putting renewed efforts into breaching web email accounts One is based on phishing, the other on the MHTML procol. Read Full Story: New Email Scams Stealthier Than Ever: Report / Infopackets.com

LulzSec has launched a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Anti-Security and calls on everyone, supporters and enemies alike, to attack Web sites belonging to any government agency or government-friendly organization This sounds very serious. Banks and large corporations seem to be their...

Over the weekend, LulzSec has seemingly finally moved away from being in it "for the lulz" and has acquired a cause: it has announced it has teamed up with Anonymous and other "affiliated battleships" and that it is launching "Operation Anti-Security". Now this is getting really serious...

"From the rise of retro fashion trends, art, music, and literature (as inspired by some great 21st century works of literature like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and the complete stereo remastered works of The Beatles), I explore the notion of a Hacking Renaissance taking place today and...

Well, it may be a dark time for LulzSec members after a new blog was setup, identifying members by name. Read Full Story: Neowin.net - LulzSec members revealed by "LulzSec Exposed"?

Here we go again..............Here is a statement from the group itself. How accurate it is I don't know. More Info: Link Removed Read Full article: LulzSec - 1000th tweet statement - Pastebin.com

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. Read Full Story: IMF attack "a very major breach" - The H...

The notorious LulzSec hacking group has published login passwords for almost 26,000 users of an x-rated porn website Read Full Story: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/12/26000-sex-website-usernames-and-passwords-exposed-by-lulzsec/

On Friday, Spanish law enforcement officials arrested three men suspected of hacking into Sony's PlayStation Network in addition to other major government and corporate websites around the world; the three men are suspected of being the local leaders of a secretive group of international hackers...

The hackers that launched attacks against Link Removed have passed their evidence along to the FBI, which is performing a follow-up investigation. Jinan is also the headquarters of the Chinese intelligence service, and both that organization and the PLA have repeatedly said that China is beefing...

While Sony may have gotten its Playstation Network back online this week, other divisions of the Japanese business are still feeling hack attacks. The web site Naked Security reports that a hacker found his way into a data base at Sony Europe and took out "120 usernames, passwords (plain text)...

BOSTON (Reuters) – A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access FaceBook, Twitter and other websites. He calls the technique "cookiejacking." "Any website. Any cookie...

Dillon Beresford and Brian Meixell were planning to perform a demonstration of how to attack critical infrastructure at the TakeDown Conference but cancelled after they were "asked very nicely" to refrain from providing that information. Beresford, a security analyst at NSS Labs, told Link...

The Deus Ex site and Eidos.com were defaced and taken down yesterday when a splinter group of the hacker organisation Anonymous broke through Square Enix security to steal the personal data of more than 80,000 registered users. According to IRC chat logs of the hackers’ conversations...

Although Microsoft has patched multiple DLL load hijacking vulnerabilities since last summer, Windows and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) can still be exploited, a security company warned today. Link Removed

Link Removed due to 404 Error A former Microsoft Xbox developer says the recent Sony PlayStation Network hack may have been the result of "consumer retaliation" for Sony's lawsuits against PS3 hackers. "Going after individuals in a manner that may not stimulate good favor towards the...

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...

Using three different vulnerabilities and clever exploitation techniques, Irish security researcher Stephen Fewer successfully hacked into a 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1) running Internet Explorer 8 to win this year’s CanSecWest hacker challenge. More...