Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
Attila Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company’s internal documents and …
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 …
Concerned about online privacy? FBI says you might be a terrorist
Being concerned about your online privacy might be a sign that you’re up to no good, says the FBI and the US Department of Justice, via a collection of 25 fliers to be …
Detecting the DNS Changer malware
January marked half-time for the folks at the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) who are now running the DNS servers originally used in the Rove botnet. Ever since a …
Romanian hacker TinKode allegedly arrested
A 20-year old Romanian believed to be “TinKode”, the infamous hacker that has breached the systems and defaced the pages of several government organizations, has …
FBI in the market for app to monitor social networks
The US FBI is looking into the possibility of using an “Open Source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application” for increasing its situational …
Megaupload shuttered, founders arrested, Anonymous retaliates with DDoS attacks
As the Internet-wide blackout in protest of the anti-piracy PIPA and SOPA legislations was slowly winding down, US authorities have announced the seizure and takedown of …
Feds seize 150 domains for selling counterfeit goods
Seizure orders have been executed against 150 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works. The …
DHS says water pump destruction was not due to SCADA hack
“After detailed analysis, DHS and the FBI have found no evidence of a cyber intrusion into the SCADA system of the Curran-Gardner Public Water District in Springfield, …
FBI arrests six for DNS hijacking scam worth $14 million
Charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national for engaging in a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that infected with malware more than four …
Leaked psychological profile of Anonymous leaders is a fake
The FBI has confirmed that the recently “leaked” psychological profile of Anonymous/Lulzsec leaders supposedly compiled by the Bureau is fake, and likely a prank …
FBI officials become spam targets
Various government agencies and high ranking government officials have been the target of previous spam attacks. In their attempts to lure victims, criminals continue to …