hackers News

hackers News From AOL News

Celebrity Hacking 101 -- and How to Prevent It

The FBI reportedly is hunting for a hacking ring suspected of targeting female celebrities and stealing photos and videos from their computers and smartphones. Some 50 celebrities are said to have been victimized. Gossip website TMZ has listed Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba,...

Bank of America Online Banking Down (Again); Twitter's Up in Arms

Once again, Bank of America's online banking site is down, and it's causing problems for customers who need to pay bills on the first of the month. BofA's website last crashed in January at another inconvenient time: the Friday before Martin Luther King Day, which for many people was the last payday before a long...

Westboro Baptist Church Taunts Anonymous, Gets Hacked [VIDEO]

Strange bedfellows indeed. A compelling live exchange between a representative of the Westboro Baptist Church and an anonymous spokesman for the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous resulted in a rather predictable outcome. In the middle of David Pakman's radio program, during which Westboro's Shirley Phelps-Roper...

Source: Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Network

WASHINGTON - A federal government official tells The Associated Press that investigators are trying to identify computer hackers who have repeatedly broken into the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market. The official says that the hackers haven't compromised the exchange's trading platform and that...

'Anonymous' Calls It War After US, UK Police Go After Hackers

International law enforcement is on a mission, hacktivists say: They're out to pay back the anonymous hackers who were part of last year's "Operation Payback," most notably in support of WikiLeaks. Police arrested five young men in Britain on Thursday, and more than 40 search warrants were executed by the FBI. Police in...

hackers News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST - TECHNOLOGY

Facebook 'Hacker' Jailed

Police say a 21-year-old British man has been sentenced to a year in jail for hacking into the Facebook account of someone in the U.S. Scotland Yard said Wednesday that Gareth Crosskey had hacked into a private individual's Facebook account on Jan. 12, 2011.

hackers News From the Web

05/31/12 Updated, Expanded, And Improved: The Ultimate Tech... Source: Fox Nomad We all travel with gadgets, store our trip memories as digital data, and stay connected with loved ones over the Internet.
05/30/12 FBI tracked Assange with the help of LulzSec hackers? Source: Russia Today Aside from a few unsealed court documents, details about the now-defunct hacktivism group LulzSec remains few and far between.
05/30/12 Andy Coulson, Former News Of The World Editor,... Source: International Business Times (Australia) Coulson also reportedly denied that he had condoned or even known about phone hacking or other illegal reporting techniques while he was editor of The News of the World.
05/30/12 UGNazi Hacker Cosmo Arrested After WHMCS Breach Source: Softpedia News Cosmo, one of the members of the UGNazi hacktivist group, has been arrested in connection to the breach that affected the website of the client management and billing solutions WHMCS.
05/29/12 DOJ Hack Emphasizes the Need for Smart Cybersecurity... Source: The Heritage Foundation Last week, the U.S. Justice Department acknowledged that its Bureau of Justice Statistics website had been hacked.

Background on hackers

Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens.

more at wikipedia »