The 19-year-old Scotsman fingered Wednesday as a central figure of the LulzSec hacking crew is a fall guy who was framed to take the heat off the real culprit, according to unconfirmed claims from a rival group.
“We believe MET Police got the wrong guy and it happens because of lot of disinformation floating on the web,” a Thursday post on the...
Two high profile hacker groups have called on their followers to boycott PayPal over its continued refusal to handle donations to Wikileaks.
Anonymous and Lulz Security issued a joint statement asking supporters to withdraw funds and close their accounts.
PayPal froze Wikileaks’ assets after it released stolen US diplomatic cables.
The...
THE COMPUTER SECURITY INDUSTRY’S Pwnie Awards ceremony is a week away and the nominations are out. The notorious Lulzsec hacking outfit, the Anonymous hacktivist collective, the Stuxnet industrial sabotage worm and the alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are all up for the ‘Epic 0wnage’ Pwnie award at Black Hat.
Anonymous...
The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends.
But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers.
And in trying...
MITRE AND THE SANS INSTITUTE have released their 2011 list of the top 25 most dangerous software errors.
The software coding errors were ranked as the highest due to their ability to let hackers take over systems, steal data, or freeze up the software altogether to stop it from working.
The threats are divided into three key areas – insecure...
