In what seemed like an all-out retaliation against the powers the be, infamous hacker group Anonymous has claimed it was behind the attacks that have recently brought down the online sites of several media organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Universal Music, as well as the US Department of Justice, [...]
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Is it Farewell to Facebook on November 5?
The number one social networking site Facebook may be looking at tough times ahead, if not the total end of its existence. Early this year, the Facebooking community got a threatening word that the site would shut down in March 15. It didn’t come true. This time around, the threat has a more credible source. [...]
Online Apple Data Hacked, Claimed by Hackers
The Cupertino-based computer company has yet to comment on it. But it was clear, one of the Apple websites had been compromised when an unknown hacker, presumably allied with the hacker group Anonymous, released over the weekend a list of 27 user names along with their encrypted passwords from the website. It may be coincidence [...]
Anonymous Steps Up Cyber Attacks as LulzSec Signs Off
The notorious hyperactive computer hacker group LulzSec announced last Saturday that it is breaking up and signing off. But it appears it was just a matter of its members crossing over to another hacker group Anonymous which now claims to have stepped up its hacking activity. Over the weekend, Anonymous claimed it has released online [...]
Whitelisting Stops Hack Attacks in One Swoop
Hacking seems to be the past time of computer whiz folks over the years. Hacker organizations like LulzSec which is notorious for having hacked Facebook and the websites of the US Senate and the CIA, along with Anonymous and others have demonstrated how easy it is to hack into networks and compromise data security to [...]
Could Citigroup Really Be that Stupid?
It’s one thing for hackers to pry into your Facebook account. But it’s entirely another and a lot more pernicious for hackers to get into your financial and personal information stored in banks. That’s basically what happened in an embarrassing hack on Citigroup’s customer data systems. Hackers were able to cart away information from as [...]