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WikiLeaks publishes Stratfor emails stolen by Anonymous
WikiLeaks has begun publishing internal emails exfiltrated from the systems of strategic intelligence company Stratfor and has teamed up with 25 media organizations who will …
Confidential data at risk even with policies in place
Think confidential information is protected by company IT security policies? Think again. A new survey by Xerox and McAfee, reveals that more than half of employees say they …
pcAnywhere code allegedly leaked after failed extortion attempt
Late Monday evening a 1.2GB file named “Symantec’s pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code” was posted on The Pirate Bay. The security firm has downloaded and is …
Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations
Anonymous resumed today its F**k FBI Friday campaign by publishing a 16-minute-long mp3 recoding of a confidential conference call between representatives of the FBI and the …
HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users’ Wi-Fi password
A bug in the way some Android-running HTC smartphones handle requests for password allows some applications to send the user’s Wi-Fi network username, password and SSID …
Government website passwords published by Anonymous
As the moment when the new legislation for defending the rights of copyright holders regarding online sharing will be discussed is coming near, the Irish politician pushing it …
Hacker allegedly leaks 100K Facebook account credentials of Arab users
The slew of hacks, leaks of credit card information, DDoS attacks and defacements executed by Arab and Israeli hackers that transferred part of the longstanding, real world …
Symantec admits its networks were hacked and source code stolen
After having first claimed that the source code leaked by Indian hacking group Dharmaraja was not stolen through a breach of its networks, but possibly by compromising the …
Hackers breach T-Mobile Web server, leak staff data
A Web server hosting part of T-Mobile’s official website has apparently been compromised by TeaMp0isoN, a hacker collective associated with Anonymous, and some of the …
Hacks of Chinese sites either inside jobs or faked
Last week’s news that hacks of a number of high-profile sites resulted in the compromise of personal and financial information of over 100 million Chinese Internet users …
Cyber attack on Israeli sites considered terrorist operation, says Israeli official
The new year started with a number of data leaks made by Anonymous, and one leak by a hacker dubbed 0xOmar, who is allegedly part of the “largest Wahhabi hacker group of …
Stratfor hack exposes UK, US and NATO officials to danger, phishing
During the last days of 2011, Anonymous attacked Stratfor, a US-based research group that gathers intelligence and produces political, economic and military reports that help …