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Hackers exact revenge against PBS

PBS's website was hacked over the Memorial Day weekend, and a fake story, alleging that dead rap star Tupac Shakur is alive in New Zealand, was posted on the site. A group claiming credit said that

What the hacking of HBGary means for you

The group of Internet activists known as Anonymous published tens of thousands of emails from the security research firm HBGary early this week, after the chief executive of an affiliate, HBGary

WikiLeaks reviewing Swiss bank's leaked data

Employees and former employees with access to confidential data have long been viewed as a major security threat for corporations, and a former Swiss banker could set a new bar for the depth and

Lessons to take away from WikiLeaks

The recent WikiLeak's disclosure of secret U.S. State Department cables has just about everyone with a computer network on edge. For enterprises, the controversy illustrates both the risks and

Is WikiLeaks DDoS a cyberwar? Not by a long stretch

Angered at various companies who declined to help keep WikiLeaks online, a loosely associated group who calls themselves "Anonymous" have banded together to exact vengeance against companies such as

Akamai: We can defend against DDoS attacks from Anon

In the wake of widely-reported Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks on sites such as PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, content delivery network (CDN) provider Akamai said that it has the capability to

Military resorts to disk ban in wake of WikiLeaks data dump

The U.S. military is ordering some troops to stop using removable media, including thumb drives and disks, in the wake of the recent WikiLeaks data dumps that have generated more than their share of

WikiLeaks supporters launch cyber attacks on alleged opponents

PayPal, Visa, MasterCard and others have come under DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks by a group of online activist called Anonymous over the last week for withdrawing their services to

WikiLeaks hactivists seek revenge against MasterCard, others

The latest WikiLeaks hullaballoo intensified this week as Mastercard and other groups' websites were hit with distributed denial of service attacks by hackers targeting companies that withdrew

Amazon: WikiLeaks disconnected for SLA violation

Amazon has finally come forward and explained that it pulled the plug on the servers used to host Wikileaks for breach of its service level agreement, and not because of pressure from the U.S.