Hackers have breached top secret MoD systems, cyber-security chief admits
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military's head of cyber-security has revealed. Major General Jonathan Shaw told the Guardian the number of successful attacks was hard to quantify but they had added urgency to efforts to beef up protection around the MoD's
Facebook encourages cyber-security poachers turned gamekeepers
On one of the lesser visited pages of Facebook, there is a list of 109 hackers who have found ways of getting through the company's security firewalls. Facebook is not naming and shaming them. On the contrary, the company has set up the page to thank them 'on behalf of our millions of users for making a responsible disclosure'. The
Taliban website under repeat attack by hackers
Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban has blamed western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyberwar with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban's El Emara website twice on Thursday, replacing usual insurgent victory messages
Anonymous says plans more attacks against China sites
The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into Chinese government websites
The Hacker Company: Facebookers Snag A Vintage Sign For New HQ
It all started last April when former Facebook engineer Chris Putnam (of fame) was visiting his girlfriend's mom in Lake City, FL and saw the striking sign , 'The Hacker Company.'Putnam, who had left Facebook in August 2010 to do his own thing, felt an immediate affinity for the sign, after all, he actually had been hired by Facebook
UK government website disrupted by hacker attack
A British government website was disrupted on Sunday by an attack thought to be by activist hacker group Anonymous, whose previous high-profile targets have included the Vatican. The website of Britain's Home Office, or interior ministry, (homeoffice.gov.uk) was out of action for several hours overnight and problems continued on Sunday,
Anonymous claims responsibility for taking down government sites
A group of computer hackers have claimed responsibility for taking down the Home Office website, apparently in protest against government extradition and surveillance policies. Internet users were unable to fully access the department's homepage for several hours on Saturday night as a message on the site said the page was currently
Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School
Etsy, the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer ten $5,000 grants to women who would like to attend this year's session but don't have the financial means to do so. As Etsy's VP of
LulzSec hacker pleads guilty
LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger has pleaded guilty to charges of taking part in an extensive computer breach against Sony. Kretsinger, 24, pleaded guilty in a California federal court to one count each of conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer in a deal with prosecutors. LulzSec, an offshoot of the international
Hacker claims breach of Chinas CEIEC defence contractor
A hacker has posted thousands of internal documents he says he obtained by breaking into the network of a Chinese company with defence contracts. The hacker, who uses the name Hardcore Charlie and said he was a friend of Hector Xavier Monsegur, the leader-turned-informant of LulzSec, told Reuters he got into the computer system of the
European hackers suspected in Utah Medicaid files breach
A data security breach at the Utah Health Department, believed to be the work of Eastern European hackers, has exposed 24,000 U.S. Medicaid files bearing names, Social Security numbers and other private information, state officials said on Wednesday. The intrusion initially appeared to have affected claims representing at least 9 percent
Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us
The first time I ever heard someone declare the death of copyright, it wasn't a dreadlocked GNU/Linux hacker or a cyberpunk in mirror shades: it was a music executive, circa 1999, responding to the launch of Napster. I thought he was wrong then and I think he's wrong now — as is everyone else who's declared copyright to be dead. The
FBI arrests three suspected LulzSec hackers: source
The Federal Agency of Investigation has jailbird three suspected members of the hacker horde LulzSec and charges will be done public versus twain more, a law enforcement official told Reuters on Tuesday. LulzSec, an underground horde too known as Lulz Security, along with fellow hacking horde Anonymous have taken credit for carrying out a
Why I am learning to code
I left my law practice to do a three-month, full-time coding retreat called Hacker School this winter. Not entirely, I suppose -- I am still in the middle of motion practice representing a few of the Occupy Wall Street arrestees -- but other than that, my career is on hiatus for the moment. Why? I caught the bug. Endure November, I
NASA says was hacked 13 times last year
NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 principal network breaches that could commitment U.S. national security. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Inspector General Paul Martin testified before Congress this week on the breaches, which appear to be among the
Anonymous splinter group AntiSec wages war on profiteering gluttons
In secretive on the webat rooms, away from the glare of police, small groups of elite hackers plot attacks against multi-national corporations and governments. But in a quest to expose what they see as a conspiracy of high-level corruption, the hackers - affiliated to cyber-activist network Anonymous - have in current months expanded
Android bug opens devices to outside control: experts
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices. Researchers at startup cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said they have figured out how to use that bug to launch attacks and take control of some
Microsoft India store down after hackers take user data
Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after being hacked, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers' obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site. 'Microsoft is investigating a limited compromise of the company's online store in India,' a
