21st of May 2013 05:41 GMT
A couple of weeks ago, Anonymous vowed to shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay which is used to keep suspected terrorists and people involved with terrorist groups, and which has been very controversial. More than half the inmates are now on hunger strike and there have been many reports criticizing the possi...
21st of May 2013 03:45 GMT
Chinese government-sponsored hackers have been targeting US companies and government agencies for years. Even when called out on it, China continues to try and eke out as much information as possible. Until now though, most people believed the stolen data had to do with proprietary software, hardware design, and so...
20th of May 2013 11:05 GMT
It looks like the government-sponsored Chinese hackers that have gotten a lot of attention in the past few months, so much so that they went quiet for a while, are back with new methods but targeting the same things. According to a report by security firm Mandiant, seen by The New York Times, the attacks are now alm...
20th of May 2013 04:59 GMT
Yahoo Japan, which has little to do with the Yahoo that's buying Tumblr, has revealed that it believes some 22 million IDs may have been leaked in an attack that the company discovered and stopped as it happened. Yahoo Japan believes the attackers were attempting to get their hands on IDs and probably whatever ...
17th of May 2013 10:44 GMT
While the Syrian government is busy shutting down the Internet in the country when it suits it, it's also busy fighting a war online as well. Granted, the only things getting hurt are Twitter accounts, but the Syrian Electronic Army has been busy hacking sites and taking over Twitter accounts, with rather elab...