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Hacker collective files criminal complaint against German government
One of Europe’s oldest hacker groups has filed a criminal complaint against Germany’s government and those in charge of its spy agencies. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which is the biggest hacker group in Europe, alon...
Thousands of credit card info may have been stolen from US hotels
It seems that thousands of people who’ve stayed at American hotels might have had their debit and credit card information stolen. This information has been released by Brian Krebs, an independent researcher from Krebs on Sec...
Angry Birds website hacked and defaced after NSA spying allegations
Earlier this week it was revealed that the NSA was using apps such as Angry Birds to spy on people. Since then, the Angry Bird’s website has been hit by hackers, who defaced the Angry Birds logo, and put “Spying Birds&...
Shape Security defends websites against hackers by constantly morphing code
Shape Security it hoping to strengthen the security of websites with the ShapeShifter, which uses code that constantly changes. They believe that their product, which is compatible with JavaScript, HTML and CSS languages, will tur...
Revenge porn website owner is being charged by US government
Hunter Moore has been arrested and charged on the federal level for allegedly paying someone to infiltrate hundreds of email accounts belonging to women. Moore, who up until Thursday, when he was arrested, ran a website called IsA...
Microsoft documents were taken in recent email hack
Microsoft announced on Friday that during a recent hack into their employee email accounts, some documents were stolen. The specific nature of the documents that were stolen by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have not been reveal...
FBI warns retailer stores of further malware attacks
The FBI believes that we haven’t seen the end of the malware attacks that have affected companies like Target. They have given out a report, called “Recent Cyber Intrusion Events Directed Toward Retail Firms”, wh...
Hackers steal 16 million email addresses and passwords in Germany
Hackers have infected computers in Germany and managed to gain email account information on 16 million users. This information comes from Germany’s Federal Office for Security (FOS), and the information stolen includes the a...
Microsoft is hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, again
After having their Twitter account compromised earlier this month, Microsoft has again been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. This time the target was the newly redesigned Office Blog, where the SEA posted several articles tit...
Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Microsoft employee emails
Microsoft confirmed that during the cyber attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), some of it’s employee email accounts were also compromised. Last weekend the SEA released three emails over Twitter, emails that ...
Target admits that malware was used on point-of-sale terminals during hack
In an interview with CNBC, Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel, confirmed that their point-of-sale terminals had been infected with malware and this was used to steal credit and debit card information from millions of people durin...
Target says that up to 70 million names, emails, and phone numbers were stolen in recent hack
Target has just announced that during the hack they suffered in November, along with millions of credit card numbers, personal information for “up to 70 million” people was taken as well. This information includes name...
Snapchat apologies for hack, lets users unlink phone numbers from accounts
In response to the fact that millions of names and phone numbers were stolen, Snapchat is allowing you to unlink your phone number from your Snapchat account by opting out of the Find Friends feature. This change takes effect in t...
Barnaby Jack, known for hacking ATMs, dies by drug overdose
Six months ago, Barnaby Jack, a 36-year old with great hacking ability, died. Now the cause of his death is revealed to be due to a drug overdose. A spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of San Francisco Medical Examiner office, said th...