Hackers

Citigroup suffered about $2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website and post fraudulent charges.

An underground hacking group has leaked what appears to be an address book of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The address book contains about 60 entries including names and addresses allegedly "friends, and family" of the former PM along with contacts allegedly of members of parliament.

It also allegedly included Blair's National Insurance Number. Eve Kay, a Queensland woman listed on the address book confirmed during a telephone call to SC that she was linked to Blair through her niece who was an assistant to the then PM.

Hacker attacks forced Brazil to shut down its presidential website and other government sites temporarily on Thursday, one day after cyber attacks briefly disabled other government sites.

The Lulz Security group of hackers took credit for some of the attacks and said it had released what it said was personal data on President Dilma Rousseff and the mayor of Sao Paulo.

The hacker group LulzSec says the British teen arrested in connection with its attack on a police agency's Web site was not an active member of the group.

On its Twitter account - viewed as a reliable source of information about the group - LulzSec says the 19-year-old was not a member and only hosted on a server a legitimate IRC chat room used by LulzSec.

Hacker group LulzSec has identified and released private information about the names of two individuals that might have led to the arrest of a 19-year-old U.K. man suspected of being a member of the group.

Ordinary Internet users frequently are scolded for choosing weak, easily-guessed passwords. New research suggests that hackers in the cyber underground are also likely to pick lame passwords for their favorite online forums.

Sony Pictures France is the latest Sony Web site to suffer at the hands of hackers. This time two hackers have claimed credit and say they copied more than 177,000 e-mails from the site.

The two hackers are identified as a Lebanese student called “Idahc” and “Auth3ntiq,” a friend of his from France. They claim to have exploited a SQL flaw to get the information. Idahc and Auth3ntic posted information about their feat, along with a sample of the e-mails they took, to the Web site Pastebin.com.

The Obama administration has been lobbying congress to increase sentences for those who break into government computer networks, or potentially endanger the country's national security.

The request includes doubling the maximum prison sentence to 20 years behind bars, according to Reuters. Talks on changes to the cybersecurity bill have being going on for over a year.

The "exclusively for beautiful people" dating site BeautifulPeople.com has reported a hack on its site that allowed as many as 30,000 "less than pretty" candidates to join it.

Advertising itself as the "largest most exclusively beautiful community in the world", BeautifulPeople.com reported that it was hit by a "Shrek" virus that compromised its vetting software, allowing a wave of "sub-standard" applicants to join the dating site.

WarGames.MY 2011, Malaysia’s first online capture the flag competition, aims to bring the fun of tinkering and puzzle solving back to hacking! The event will allow Malaysian ‘hackers’ to showcase their skills in a secure and contained environment and prove that they are amongst the best the country has to offer.