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Hackers Nabbed 1.5 Million Visa and MasterCard Customers' Information

The hack into Visa and MasterCard payment processor Global Payments turns out to have been massive, exposing 1.5 million customers' information (including account numbers) and costing the third-party contractor its spot on Visa's registry of secure providers.

By Seth Abramovitch

Mar 31, 2012

LulzSec's Teen UK Operative is Back in Jail

A British teen hacker is back in jail for contacting LulzSec leader-turned-informant Sabu, but so far Anonymous has yet to "kill the Internet" in retaliation.

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By Adam Martin

Mar 30, 2012

Big Breach for Visa and MasterCard Contractor

If you have a Visa or MasterCard, it's time to start paying more attention to those statements: A payment processor both companies use has had some kind of security breach, and while the details are still murky, these things don't tend to end well.

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By Dino Grandoni

Mar 22, 2012

Stat of the Day

Hackers Broke into 174 Million Accounts in 2011

The release of Verizon's annual "Data Breach Investigations Report" gives some numeric confirmation that 2011 was indeed "The Year of the Hack," as some observers (including us) maintained.

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By Dino Grandoni

Mar 15, 2012

Stat of the Day

'Non-Humans' Account for 51% of All Internet Traffic

By one study's measure, slightly more than half of all the Internet's traffic comes from computers not being used by fleshy humans that might actually purchase products.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 14, 2012

Beware the Fake YouTube Site That's Sabotaging Syria's Uprising

Now that we know way too much about Bashar al-Assad's personal life, we need to extend a warning so that his regime doesn't end up knowing too much about yours.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 13, 2012

Dell Just Dropped Over a Billion Dollars on Hacker Protection

Dell, the company that's perhaps best known for it's line of colorful, college student-friendly laptops, is getting into the cyber security business with its fairly sizable purchase of SonicWALL, Inc.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 13, 2012

Hackers Discover Government Employees Watch Porn

A group of hackers calling themselves Th3 Consortium and claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous and LulzSec broke into yet DigitalPlaground.com, the third porn site it's hacked in as many weeks, stealing 72,000 passwords and 40,000 credit card numbers.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 9, 2012

The Many Conflicting Faces of Sabu

Today we learn more about the Internet hacktivist known as Sabu via fresh court documents made public yesterday, which further complicate his persona.

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By Adam Martin

Mar 7, 2012

Anonymous Show of Force Takes Down Vatican Website

With some of its most active participants neutralized, Anonymous really wants to show it's still a threat, and on Wednesday it made that point by taking down the Vatican's website.

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By Adam Martin

Mar 7, 2012

Anonymous Takes Out Its Frustration on a Security Firm

One of its key players turned out to be an FBI informant and Anonymous is frustrated, so it's acting out in classic fashion by knocking the website of a computer security firm offline and posting the employees' logins on Pastebin, but the retaliation is small compared to its past actions.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 29, 2012

Anonymous Threatens More Than Interpol's Website in Arrest Retaliation

Interpol's website is back online Wednesday after hackers knocked it off in retaliation for the agency arresting 25 Anonymous affiliates, and now Anonymous says it plans to go after individual agents by exposing their personal information.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 21, 2012

The Future of Hacking Sounds Pretty Ridiculous

Since the downfall of LulzSec, hackers have been busy coming up with wild ideas to outdo their many attention-grabbing stunts from 2011.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 14, 2012

Anonymous Marks Bahrain Protest by Hacking U.S. Tear Gas Company

Much of the tear gas that billowed through Bahrain's streets Monday (and throughout the Arab Spring) was made by a Pennsylvania-based company called Combined Systems, so to mark the anniversary of protests in Bahrain, Anonymous took Combined Systems' website offline and dumped its employee and client data on the Web.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 10, 2012

Iran's Internet Crackdown Is Like Catnip to Hackers

Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and with a new wave of anti-government protests expected to mark the occasion, the government there has reportedly gotten nervous enough to turn off the Internet, or at least restrict it considerably.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 10, 2012

Anonymous Claims Credit for Taking Down the CIA's Website

The Central Intelligence Agency's website CIA.gov is unresponsive in what looks a lot like a denial of service attack, and Anonymous is taking credit.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 9, 2012

Foxconn Hacked by Upstart Swagg Security

A group of hackers calling themselves Swagg Security claims it has broken into the Web servers of chief Apple supplier Foxconn and leaked company user names and passwords, allowing anyone to place a large order ostensibly as a Foxconn client.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 7, 2012

Accused of Extortion, Anonymous Is Losing at PR

Depending on who you talk to, Anonymous is either a righteous crusader out to expose corporate corruption by baiting a computer security company into offering it a bribe, or a vicious criminal syndicate using stolen data to extort money.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 3, 2012

100,000 Emails Leaked From the Haditha Marine's Lawyers: Now What?

On Friday, hackers under the banner Anonymous released three years' worth of emails from the law firm representing a marine convicted in the 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq, which presents a fresh question of how anybody will ever find anything worthwhile in all that.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 3, 2012

Anonymous's Friday Hacks: FBI Conference Call, Haditha Marine's Lawyers

The hackers at Anonymous promised a big release of hacked information on Friday, and they're doing it, starting with a confidential call among FBI agents investigating Anonymous and most recently releasing correspondence from the lawyers of a marine convicted in the Haditha massacre.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 31, 2012