Hackers

A 35-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty Monday to breaking into the email accounts of stars including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, and was taken in custody.

Judge S. James Otero said he did not understand why Chaney continued hacking -- including accessed the email of a member of the entertainment industry identified as "C.B." -- even after his home was searched in February 2010. Chaney, who looked shocked when he was ordered into federal custody, faces up to 60 years plus fines and restitution of about $2.5 million when he is sentenced on July 23.

An exclusive report on MSNBC claims to have found evidence that hackers have compromised various credit rating websites and are now selling not only the personal information of victims, but their credit history along with. 

The prices of a report rises and falls depending on the credit score of the victim. For consumers with credit scores in the 750s, report data might fetch $80, while victims with scores in the low 600s sell for about half that, according to a “for sale” page viewed by msnbc.com.

Hackers operating under the banner of “Anonymous” have threatened YouTube with an attack if the video sharing site does not restore access to a closed down account.

The hackers appear annoyed at the blocking of an account belonging to a user calling themselves 'Theanonmessage' and while YouTube has taken down Anonymous videos before, it has never raised this much of ire. 

Hackers from a group calling itself "Syria's Electronic Army" seized the English-language Facebook page of Saudi owned television news channel Al Arabiya and defaced it. 

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce the extension of the Google EMEA Travel and Conference Grant to any female hackers planning on attending HITBSecConf2012 - Amsterdam in May.

One of the most exciting trends of the early 21st century has been the explosion of hacker culture around the world. By hackers, I don’t mean people who pose security threats to computer networks. I’m referring simply to people who use technology to create useful products. For a number of reasons, the next few decades will see more hackers added to the global population than at any time in history. Because of their skills, hackers are uniquely positioned to become entrepreneurs and start companies.

Online voting at the NDP leadership convention has suffered delay by hackers with party officials saying they've found evidence of denial of service attacks against it's online voting system servers.

Forbes claims that the US government, amongst other possible 'customers', are paying as much as $250,000 for the privilege of having access to a 0-day Apple iOS exploit.

So apparently LulzSec are making a return - on April fools' day. Yeah, exactly. A Youtube video has been released claiming the return of LulzSec in what they're calling Operation LulzDay and a supposed Project Mayhem scheduled for December 21st. 

At a Google-run competition in ­Vancouver last month, the search giant’s famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both of the new methods used a rigged ­website to bypass Chrome’s security protections and completely hijack a target computer. But while those two hacks defeated the company’s defenses, it was only a third one that actually managed to get under Google’s skin.