LulzSec, Anonymous form alliance to target banks
The worst fears of security professionals have been realised with a hacker collective designed to target banks confirmed by LulzSec and Anonymous.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
Global Security — News
Despite arrest, Lulzsec sails on
The hacking group known as LulzSec pledged to continue their online rampage Tuesday, a day after U.K. police arrested a man allegedly affiliated with the group.
Robert McMillan | 22 Jun | Read more
LulzSec hacker group denies it has stolen UK census
The hacker group <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062111-uk-police-arrest-teen-from.html">LulzSec</a> denies it has stolen the entire results of the 2011 census for the United Kingdom, but if someone else has, it endorses the theft.
Tim Greene | 22 Jun | Read more
In it for 'the lulz'
The English language is a fluid thing interpreted differently by speakers from different lands. Its beauty is its flexibility: bad or broken English can be just as effective at communicating as fluent English.
Stefan Hammond | 22 Jun | Read more
UK police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack
U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue hacking group Lulz Security.
Jeremy Kirk | 21 Jun | Read more
LulzSec launches anti-government crusade, takes down U.K. police site
A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
Gregg Keizer | 21 Jun | Read more
US declaration of cyberwar coming: FBI InfraGard president
Countries will continue to press the envelope to determine how much damage can be inflicted before the United States declares a cyberwar according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) associate.
Hamish Barwick | 20 Jun | Read more
U.S. military sharing secret cyber threat info with defense contractors
A new U.S. military program shares classified information about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061411-despite-years-of-talk-utilities.html?hpg1=bn">cyber threats</a> with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
Tim Greene | 17 Jun | Read more
Many Malaysian government sites hacked
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission said that 51 websites in the .gov.my domain were attacked beginning late Wednesday, and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption.
John Ribeiro | 16 Jun | Read more
Congress aims to curb mobile location tracking
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is one of most vocal politicians in Washington when it comes to the issue of mobile privacy. In April, he sent letters to both Apple and Google asking if and how they collect location data on their users.
IMF is victim of 'sophisticated cyberattack,' says report
The International Monetary Fund has reportedly been hit with a "large and sophisticated cyberattack" that potentially puts sensitive, confidential data about national economies at risk of exposure.
James Niccolai | 12 Jun | Read more
EU will take a year to set up full cybersecurity agency
Security experts have criticized the European Commission's plans to set up a team to look at how to combat cyberattacks as too little, too late, saying that more coordination between member states is needed.
Jennifer Baker | 11 Jun | Read more
UK health service warned of poor security by hacker group
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) said Friday that no patient data was compromised after an intrusion of one of its websites by Lulz Security, a hacker group that has recently stung organizations including a U.S. public broadcasting network and Sony.
Jeremy Kirk | 10 Jun | Read more