Two men in Brtain have admitted hacking into Sony Music's servers and copying thousands of files, including previously unreleased tracks by Michael Jackson.
James Marks, 27, and James McCormick, 26, hacked into the record company's servers in the US from their homes in Daventry, Northants, and Blackpool.
Bangkok's Ratchadapisek Criminal Court yesterday ordered that Algerian hacking suspect Hamza Bendelladj, 24, be detained pending extradition to the United States for prosecution over banking fraud.
The immaturity reeks.
Looking at leaderboards can be disenchanting. Many occasions, there are hackers or glitchers at the top of the heap just to prove they can do it. But then there are legitimate players like Xbox Live's Retrominano whose prowess at Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 placed him as top dog, the #1 rank for "Career - All Time." Apparently, to butthurt pricks, that's a crime.
Over the weekend, it was reported that a hacker had claimed to discover a way to jailbreak a Windows RT device so that it would run non-Windows Store apps on a Windows RT device via a circumvention method. The method was discovered by clokr on Sunday, and and Microsoft immediately responded it was investigating the claims, which were verified.
It’s that time of the year again – Facebook has just opened up registration for its annual Hacker Cup, “an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the title of world champion.”
This is the third Hacker Cup that Facebook has hosted.
The Twittersphere is up in arms over the news that a teenage girl fell victim to the self-harm Justin Bieber campaign.
Trolls were convincing young people to deliberately harm themselves in pop star's name. But be warned, most of this story was faked and there's a lot of double-crossing.
The plot was the creation of hackers from the forum 4Chan, who last night was also found to be planning to fake the death of a teenage girl and blame it on Bieber. Screenshots from chat program IRC show a secret meeting of members discussing the scheme.
In a recent twist that mirrors the the plot of the movie Men In Black, Japanese police have recovered a memory card on the collar of a stray cat that contains clues left by a particularly notorious hacker who claims to have created the "remote control virus."
The attackers hit one U.S. bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
But there was something disturbingly different about the wave of online attacks on U.S. banks in recent weeks. Security researchers say that instead of exploiting individual computers, the attackers engineered networks of computers in data centers, transforming the online equivalent of a few yapping Chihuahuas into a pack of fire-breathing Godzillas.
A 27-year-old Romanian man was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after admitting he was part of a group that stole payment card data from hundreds of computers belonging to merchants in the U.S.
Cezar Butu, of Ploiesti, Romania, pleaded guilty in September in U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to one count of conspiracy to commit access fraud. Prosecutors alleged Butu was part of a group that hacked into the payment systems of merchants as part of a multimillion-dollar scheme, stealing stored payment card details.
As 2013 comes into full view, I believe the new year may bring cyber events that will have the greatest impact yet on homeland security and foreign policy. My company recently released the 2013 Threat Predictions Report, and it paints an ominous picture of how rapidly the burgeoning “cyberchaos” industry is maturing.
So far, activist hackers — hacktivists — have rarely inflicted genuine trauma. Usually it’s shenanigans, political embarrassment or low-grade anarchy — as when the hacker group Anonymous hijacks websites of the Syrian government or the Westboro Baptist Church.
