Angry Pirates Take Down MPAA’s Site Over Anti-Piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America's website was temporarily brought down this weekend by pirates who were angered over its efforts to stop them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. MPAA.org...
View ArticleReport: FBI Investigating Hackers That Targeted Female Celebs
(Updated 3:33 p.m. PST) Hackers have apparently gained access to private info — nude photos and videos included — of 50 celebrities, all of them female. According to TMZ, victims include Vanessa...
View ArticleHoly Hack Attack! Sony Pictures Confirms Breach, Contacts FBI
Sony Pictures acknowledged Friday evening that rogue group LulzSec has breached the companies websites, but it did not reveal the extent of the damage from the hacking. On Thursday, LulzSec released...
View ArticleHackers: Thanks for the Lulz, We’re Calling It Quits
Rest easier, IT folk: LulzSec, the rogue hacker group that has terrorized Sony and a raft of other organizations around the globe the past two months, has disbanded. For now, at least. The decision...
View ArticleHacked Fox News Twitter Feed Makes Bogus Obama Assassination Report
WASHINGTON — Hackers took control of a FoxNews.com Twitter account Monday and sent six false tweets saying that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead. "Those reports are incorrect, of course,...
View ArticleAnonymous Hackers Take Over Senator’s Twitter Account, Hack CBS & Universal...
Hacking collective Anonymous went on another spree Monday morning, assuming control of Senator Chuck Grassley's Twitter account and shutting down the websites of CBS and Universal Music. Grassley...
View ArticleFacebook IPO: Mark Zuckerberg’s Bizarre Ode to Hackers
Mark Zuckerberg is about to become one of the richest men on the planet, but underneath all that gold plate, he’s still a hacker. In the quasi-philosophical letter that accompanied Facebook’s initial...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Running Out of Money, Finds Loophole in Visa/MasterCard Blockade
WikiLeaks said it is running low on money and blamed Visa and MasterCard for prohibiting users from donating to the site. The transparency activist website's cash reserves fell from $983,600 in...
View ArticleSkype Shuts Down Password-Resetting After Hack by Russian Site
Skype suffered a security breach early Wednesday morning, allowing hackers to hijack any of the service's 250 million users' passwords and create a new account, using only an email address. The...
View ArticleAnonymous Hackers Down MIT Website After Aaron Swartz Suicide (Updated)
The hacker group Anonymous took down the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's website Monday morning in retaliation for the role it felt the college played in researcher Aaron Swartz's suicide....
View ArticleN.Y. Times Attacked by Chinese Hackers
Chinese hackers have attacked the New York Times for the last four months, infiltrating its systems to get reporters' and employees' passwords, the paper said. On Wednesday night, the Times published a...
View ArticleFacebook Hacked in ‘Sophisticated Attack’
Facebook said on Friday that it was the subject of a "sophisticated attack" from hackers last month, but no user data was compromised. Employees at the social network visited an infected site and its...
View ArticleApple Suffers Hacking Attack
Apple admitted its systems were infiltrated by hackers Tuesday. However, the company said no customer data was compromised. The iPhone maker said in a statement that some employees visited a developer...
View ArticleNBC.com Hacked in Malware Attack (Updated)
NBC.com was hacked into on Thursday morning, said security experts who believe the site might have have infected visitors' computers with malware. The site is back up now. But cyber security...
View ArticleMicrosoft Says It Suffered Same Hack Attack as Apple, Facebook
Add Microsoft to the list of companies experiencing hacker attacks. The company said in a blog post on Friday afternoon that it suffered the same security breach that Facebook and Apple have recently...
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Leaked! Sony’s Multi-Million Dollar Executive Salaries Revealed Online After...
A document that purports to show the salaries of top Sony executives has leaked online, and it shows the top 17 moguls who make $1 million or more at the studio. A week after Sony Pictures...
View ArticleSony Hackers Worked From Thailand, May Have North Korean Ties (Report)
The cyber attackers who targeted Sony Pictures Entertainment worked from a five-star hotel in Thailand and bear the hallmarks of DarkSeoul, a hackers group with links to North Korea, according to an...
View ArticleRep Peter King Not a ‘Big Movie Guy’ But Will Head to Theaters to Defy Sony...
Congressman Peter King is not known for his sympathy toward terrorists, and on Tuesday, he had a message for the Sony hackers. Also read: White House: Kathryn Bigelow Did Not Get Special Access for Bin...
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Russian Hackers Steal Donald Trump Info from Democratic Party Database
Russian government hackers gained access to the Democratic National Committee’s computer network and stole information on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. DNC chairwoman Debbie...
View ArticleWilliams Sisters, Simone Biles Attacked in Russian Hack of Olympians’ Medical...
A group of Russian hackers is being blamed for a hack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) database and a subsequent leak of confidential medical files of numerous U.S. Olympic athletes. Among those...
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