The Malaysian government is readying itself after hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened to attack the website and other computer systems of the government, various reports say.
According to the Agence France-Presse, Husin Jazri of government agency CyberSecurity Malaysia said that the government is “ware of the hack threat and we believe that the threat is real. We have alerted the relevant parties and government agencies.”
Reuters says that Malaysian police chief Ismail Omar said that …

Lulz.

Lulz Security has struck again but this time, the victims are not the usual high-profile companies or organizations but porn sites, more than 50 of them.
In a post on the group’s website on Friday, LulzSec said they have hacked 56 porn sites and gotten a trove of emails and passwords from these sites.
What’s more, the group specifically highlighted the government and military email addresses in their post.
In the announcement, LulzSec said, “Hi! We like porn (sometimes), so these …

Following the continuous string of attacks on computer systems of high-profile companies and groups lately, several reports reveal that the International Monetary Fund is currently looking into an attack on its computer systems.

However, according to The Associated Press, IMF spokesman David Hawley has told them that the IMF is fully functional.
On the other hand, the AP says that the spokesman “declined to provide further details on what he termed an ‘IT incident,’ including its scope …

Some members of the elusive and mysterious group ‘Anonymous’ are no longer anonymous – at least to the Spanish police – as various reports say that three hackers connected to the hacktivist group have been arrested in Spain.

The announcement came from Spanish authorities who said on Friday that they have arrested three Anonymous-linked hackers in three different places in the country.
Anonymous gained popularity previously for backing WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange and attacking …

Following a string of hacking attacks on big firms these past months, reports say that account data of about 200,000 Citi customers have been compromised in a security breach.

The news comes via Reuters which cites James Griffiths, a Citi spokesman based in Hong Kong, saying that the breach affects 1 percent of Citi’s clients in the North American market. Reuters says that the total number of customers of the financial in the market is 21 million.
Local reports say that names, account …

stLight.options({publisher:’a89b9619-964d-41d9-adb7-31dfd1baeca8′});
email

Joseph B. Campbell is one more name that has been added to the list of hackers last Thursday. The 24-year old Florida man was arrested and charged for breaking women’s Web mail accounts with the intention to post their ‘personal’ photos online.
Police told that he was using phishing to trap victims and some of the victims were known to him since high school days. FACEBOOK pages …

It seems to just keep coming.

Lulz Security, the hacker group making a name for themselves as one of the most prolific hacking groups as of late, has claimed on Monday that it has broken into Sony’s networks again.
The news follows claims of the group last week saying that they stole one million or more email addresses, street addresses, names, passwords and other data from a breach they conducted on the Sonypictures.com website.
A report from Reuters says that Sony, through a spokeswoman …

Hacker group Lulz Security (LulzSec) has claimed responsibility for hacking into the systems of an FBI-affiliated group called InfraGard, various reports say.

According to U.K. publication The Register, the group has defaced the website of Atlanta-based InfraGard. The Associated Press says that 180 login credential which include passwords and other sensitive information from members of InfraGard has been leaked in the attack.
The Register says that the message posted by LulzSec after it …

Just when it seemed that Sony waters have calmed considerably after a great storm, a group of hackers has claimed on Thursday that they have hacked another Sony unit.

Lulz Security, a group which claimed responsibility for hacking several sites of Public Broadcasting Service in retaliation for the broadcasting company’s film on WikiLeaks, has claimed that it has stolen one million passwords, email addresses and other data from SonyPictures.com.
Sony is still fresh from restoring the Sony …

stLight.options({publisher:’a89b9619-964d-41d9-adb7-31dfd1baeca8′});
email

Much time has passed since the cyber attack on the network of Lockheed-Martin a defense contractor. Reports are now coming that the attack was accomplished with the help of counterfeit electronic keys.
Hackers hacked the RSA Security network a few months ago and stole the keys to its SecurID tokens, reports PCWorld.
NSS Labs after analyzing the attack said, “This was a strategic move to …