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Famed PS3 Hacker Geohot Leaves Facebook, Spotted at Lady Gaga Startup

George Hotz, or GeoHot if we're to use one of his more familiar aliases, made a name for himself in the hacking world by creating jailbreak software for Apple's iPhone. But when spotted by...

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Anonymous Exposes Syrian Government Emails

Hacker collective Anonymous has a reputation for targeting authoritarian regimes, and the government crackdown in Syria has led the group to begin hammering away. Anonymous has just released a cache of...

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Authorities Arrest More than Two Dozen Suspected Anonymous Hackers

Several suspected members of the Anonymous hacking group have proven to be anything but anonymous. National law enforcement officers in Europe and South America unmasked and arrested 25 individuals...

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Several Senior LulzSec Members Arrested After Leader Helps Police

Remember LulzSec, the jolly jackasses responsible for so much hacking havoc last summer? So does the FBI; they've rounded up five alleged LulzSec members in the U.S., England and Ireland this morning....

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LulzSec Hacker Spills the Beans on Sony Breach, Enters Plea Agreement

Cody Kretsinger, the 24-year-old who hid behind his online handle "Recursion," may end up facing jail time for his participation in an organized security breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment last...

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Yahoo Voice Hack Attack Compromises 453,000 Passwords

Do you use Yahoo Voice? If so, go change your password immediately. Hackers collectively known as D33Ds Company are taking credit for an SQL injection attack on a Yahoo subdomain believed to belong to...

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Dropbox: Hacked Employee Account Behind Spam Attack

Confronted with a large number of reports of Dropbox-associated email addresses being targeted by spammers, the cloud storage company brought in “outside experts” to probe the issue earlier this month....

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FBI Nabs Second Suspected LulzSec Hacker on U.S. Soil

Though it's been relatively quiet lately, the high profile hacking organization known as Lulz Security (LulzSec) spent much of last summer stirring up trouble on the Internet, often times at the...

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Rogue Hacker Takes Credit for Knocking Millions of GoDaddy Sites Offline

As if Mondays aren't challenging enough to get through as it is, many of the websites belonging to GoDaddy's 10.5 million customers were unplugged yesterday afternoon following a hacker attack. A day...

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Hacker Attack Results in Thousands of Player and Non-Player Character...

Throughout history, wars and plagues have wiped out entire cities and civilizations, leaving behind nothing but corpses and tears. Strangely enough, the same thing happened yesterday in World of...

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Barnes & Noble Warns of PIN Pad Tampering at 63 Locations

Shopped at a Barnes & Noble brick-and-mortar store lately? If so, keep a close eye on your bank account. The book vendor issued a statement today warning that it's aware of tampering with PIN pad...

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Anonymous Reflects on 2012 and Prepares for Another Year of Hacking

Hactivist group promises more shenanigans in 2013.If you thought the hactivist group known as Anonymous would fade from view in the New Year, think again. Anonymous posted a message making it clear it...

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Anonymous Up to Old Tricks, Hacks U.S. Department of Justice

Hacking group takes credit for attack on U.S. Department of Justice's website.The hactivist organization known as Anonymous is claiming it's the one responsible for infiltrating the U.S. Department of...

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Several LulzSec Hackers Plead Guilty to Sony Breach

Young activists fess up to series of hacker attacks.Ryan Ackroyd, a 26-year-old from South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to a single count of a computer-related hacking charge, according to a report in...

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LulzSec Hacker Receives One-Year Sentence for Sony Shenanigans

Sony breach cost the company over $600,000.A U.S. judge ordered Cody Kretsinger, otherwise known as "Recursion" by his LulzSec cohorts, to serve a year and one day in prison after the hacker pleaded...

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Hackers Infiltrate Ubisoft's Servers and Swipe User Data

Time to change your passwordGame publisher Ubisoft today confirmed that one of its websites suffered a security breach and that the person or people responsible made off with usernames, email...

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Security Firm Finds Gaping Hole in Android’s Security Fabric

Nearly 900 million devices running Android 1.6 or later at riskThe Black Hat USA 2013 security conference does not get underway until July 27, 2013, but there is already plenty to look forward to, with...

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Club Nintendo Hack Compromised 24,000 User Accounts

Nintendo, we have a problemOver the past month, hackers apparently bombarded a Nintendo fan site with over 15 million fraudulent login attempts, nearly 24,000 of which were successful. As spelled out...

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Apple Overhauling Developer Website in Wake of Security Breach

Security researcher steps forwardApple recently pulled the plug on its developer portal after an "intruder attempted to secure personal information" from the site, the Cupertino company indicated in an...

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LinkedIn Addresses Lawsuit Alleging Email Hacking

"Quite simply, this is not true"Professional networking site LinkedIn recently found itself the recipient of a class action lawsuit alleging that the company has been hacking into its users' email...

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