Hackers Deface WikiLeaks Homepage (But That's About It)
If you tried visiting WikiLeaks late Wednesday evening, you might’ve gotten the impression that the website was hacked.…
Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Moves Domain to Google After Getting the Boot From GoDaddy [Update: Google Boots It Too]
About 10 hours ago, GoDaddy—the world’s largest internet domain registrar—sent five identical replies to critics who…
Anonymous Leaked the Passwords and Personal Info from Paris Climate Summit Attendees
Anonymous published a Pastebin file containing passwords and personal information from Paris climate summit attendees…
Anonymous Is Really Screwing Up Its Stupid War on ISIS
This should not come as a surprise, but Anonymous is probably not going to rid the world of terror with its myriad…
Anonymous Has Declared War on ISIS
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and renewed airstrikes in Syria, hacking collective Anonymous has declared…
About That KKK Dox
“Operation KKK” seeks to expose high-ranking members of the white supremacist group. As it did last year, Anonymous is…
Here We Go Again: Anonymous Tries to Hold the Canadian Government Ransom
Once again, the hacktivist collective Anonymous is threatening a spectacular security breach, this time, against the…
Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years
Yesterday, an environmentalist faction of Anonymous took down a Hawaiian state government website and a site for the…
The Life of an Ex-Hacker Who Is Now Banned from Using the Internet
When programmer Higinio Ochoa wants to share some a batch of new code with his boss, he has to mail it in on paper. Why…
Barrett Brown Will Spend 5 Years In Jail for Hacking-Related Offenses
A federal judge just sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $890,000…
Hacker Group Names, Ranked
You may have recently heard about Lizard Squad, the hacker group that ruined Christmas for so many gamers. But you may…
Hackers Leak Thousands of Passwords Because This Is How We Live Now
So, um, it's probably a good day to change your passwords. For everything. Anonymous (or some kid claiming to be part…
The FBI Used Open Source Hackerware to Uncover Tor Users In 2012
Wired reports that the FBI used a bunch of cobbled together, freely available exploits to help expose users hidden…
British Spies Have Attacked Anonymous With DDoS
New documents leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News suggest that the UK's spy agency, GCHQ, launched a DDoS…
Participating in Anonymous DDoS Attack for One Minute = $183,000 Fine
Eric Rosol is not a big-time hacker. However, the Wisconsin man did participate in the 2011 distributed denial of…
Anonymous Has Been Hacking US Government Sites Since Last December
The FBI has released an official memo indicating that hackers related to Anonymous have been accessing federal…
Anonymous Hacked Quebec Government Sites With a Fifth Grader's Help
Middle school boys can be a handful. Tracking dirt into the house, crashing their bikes, helping Anonymous take down…
The NSA Says an 'Internal Error' Caused Its Outage Not a DDoS Attack
The completely competent folks of the NSA are saying that its nuked website is a result of an internal error, a glitch,…
The NSA's Website Is Down
NSA.gov was unresponsive late Friday afternoon due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS), according to packs of…
Feds Seize Silk Road, Everybody's Favorite Illegal Drug Website
Once upon a time, you could sign on to Silk Road and buy everything from LSD to Moon Rock molly with Bitcoin. That time…