The Chicago Police Department has reportedly been hacked in advance of the NATO Summit in the city this weekend. Thousands of protesters are expected to show up, and the police are bracing themselves for riots. Why travel to Chicago when you can protest from the comfort of your home? Read More >
Featured comment by Nielo TM:
"Look what happened in recent years. Has anything changed for the better? No!
It's just a small space given to public to feel they have power. the o..." More »
Anonymous has been meek and quiet since the great Sabu treachery, failing to even threaten much of anything. But in a new interview, one of the group's last remaining leaders says Anon has a nuclear card up its sleeve. Read More >
Northumbria Police under guidance from the UK's Police Central eCrime Unit have arrested a teenager in Newcastle, accusing the youth of being part of one of the internet's notorious hacking collectives known as TeamPoison. Read More >
Featured comment by t.y.wan:
"If the police is wrong, it would be nice to get some follow up on that... For all I know, it could just be a trojan planted into that computer as a re..." More »
Another day, another lashing out by our friendly neighbourhood hacking collective. This time it seems Anonymous isn't too fond of a one Vladimir Putin. Having seen him just get his shoes back under the Presidential desk, the hackers took out the Kremlin's site, which, as Xkcd points out, is almost akin to tearing down a poster or two in the digital age of protesting -- not quite the hack attacks Anonymous et al. were waging just a few months ago that's for sure. Read More >
Looks like Anonymous isn't all that happy with Virgin doing what it was court ordered to do and blocking The Pirate Bay across its network. The hacking collective has forced the Virgin Media website offline with a classic DDoS attack, which kicked off at 5pm last night and still seems to be going strong this morning. Read More >
If you've ever wanted a Twitter account that has around 10 followers, a randomly generated username, and is following thousands of random people, today is your lucky day. Earlier today, an anonymous hacker dumped 55000 usernames and passwords onto Pastebin. Normally, this would be a real inconvenience — and a worrisome breach — but all the affected appear to be spambots with randomly generated passwords and email addresses. Read More >
Yesterday's bank holiday apparently sent the tills in WH Smith a little loopy, where they rebelled against their masters and insisted everyone bought The Queen's Knickers and nothing else, despite what you thought you had in the bag. Read More >
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"It was when I clicked your URL and saw the red malware warning site (with the option to "proceed anyway"). Sorry, I should've screengrabbed it for you..." More »
Featured comment by Taf:
"Hackers will often succeed in attempts, it's what they manage to obtain once they are in thats the biggest worry!
Having worked on testing projects ..." More »
It's not the best time to be a government site at the moment, it seems hackers think you're fair game. SOCA's been taken out by a botnet army in a classic DDoS attack, while we're being warned that the upcoming London Olympics aren't exactly immune to the wrath of hackers either, although the government is trying its best. Read More >
After a long day at school, the house phone rang and my mother answered. It's Apple and they want to have a word with you, she said. At the time, I was 16 and I had been hustling iPod parts to all parts of the world. Read More >
Featured comment by tsjmcgrath:
"I'd love to do something like this. But... no. My school, because they are idiotic with their rules, bans all forms of trade or business among pupils ..." More »
If you find yourself with 80 extra hours in your week, and a penchant for classic Star Wars games, you might want to follow in hacker Le Chuck's footsteps. He built this impressive 1:6 scale 12-inch replica of Atari's original Star Wars game. Read More >
Pictures hacked from Hollywood stars' email accounts and phones seem to be a mainstay of popular culture these days. Chris Chaney, one of the most prolific celebrity hackers to date, was recently arrested—but GQ has a wonderful profile of the man which you really have to read. Read More >
Featured comment by Jon D:
"I know what you mean. Its really seedy what he did, and maybe its just the way the article was written but you do sorta end up sympathising with the g..." More »
Anonymous seems to be branching out all over the place, first we had Anonymous OS, then Anontune and now this. Pastebin has been cracking down on releases, attempting to eradicate leaked credit card information and other sensitive information from its servers. Anonymous didn’t take too kindly to that, so it’s set up its own competing “secure” text dump site, AnonPaste. Read More >
Looks like Anonymous doesn’t like what’s happening in Bahrain ahead of this weekend’s F1 grand prix. The hacking collective has taken down the official Formula One site with its classic DDoS attack, while other F1 sites, including the fan site F1-racers.net, have been hacked. Read More >
The Saturday night hack-a-thon organised by Anonymous will continue this week, with UK-based members of the collective having another go at DDoS-ing the UK government into submission over its controversial extradition rules. Read More >
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"I live five minutes from GCHQ. I'm always curious as to what goes on in the doughnut. I've heard rumours that it descends 50 feet underground and has ..." More »
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