Members of the hacking group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to hacking a number of websites. Ryan Cleary, 20, from Essex’s and Jake Davis, 19, from the Shetland Isles, admitting being part of the hacking group LulzSec. Cleary confessed to four charges, including hacking into US Air Force Agency computers, based at the Pentagon. Both confessed to running denial of service attacks against a number of targets, including the websites of Sony, NHS, News International, 20th Century Fox and Nintendo. While confessing to some of the charges, both Davis... 

The US Government is not having a good time of it. After earlier in the week having the FBI hacked, they now have the U.S Navy and Department of Homeland Security websites hacked by a blind SQL injection. A group calling themselves “Digital-corruption” hacked into domains of both sites and leaked database information on to the popular hacking dumping ground, pastebin. The leaked data came from two websites, www.smartwebmove.navsup.navy.mil and twicinformation.tsa.dhs.gov and consisted of a database dump of usernames, passwords, email... 

An ex Member of the Anonymous Hacking Group, Jeremy, aka Reckz0r released a number of private user details to the web, purportedly hacked from banks across the globe. Reckz0r claims the data dump is a small portion of over 50gb of data he has hacked from 79 banks he has been targeting for 3 months. Reckz0r claims to be a hacktivist that has been hacking since 2002. Originally creating hacking scripts with Python, he decided to join the hacking group Anonymous. “I decided to be a part of Anonymous, I decided to fight for freedom, against the... 

Jay Moore The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) today sent down four scammer behind the Freshshop website. The main character was Jay Moore, pictured, who set up the identity and financial data trading website. SOCA raided the Gloucestershire home of 21 year old Moore to discover a web farm serving request for stolen financial data. It was discovered the website had credit card details of over 340,000 people. The estimated financial lost to the general population was conservatively calculated at USD$40m. When captured Moore had over a USD$265k... 

The disbanded hacking group Lulz Security has apparently risen from the ashes and like all newborns has a new name, LulzSec Reborn. The newly formed hacking group has posted just over 8,000 usernames and passwords on Paste-Bin, hacked from Tweet-Gif, a third party Twitter application that allows you to share animated gifs. The usernames and passwords are dumped in a SQL build file, with the passwords still currently hashed. The file also includes user personal information such as their full name, location, Twitter image, and timestamp of the users... 

Hackers calming to be part of the Anonymous hacking group dumped over 1.7GB of data slurped from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. The data seems to be a collection of data from databases and emails from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/), which is responsible for publishing national crime statistics. The dump is part of the Monday Mail Mayhem (#MondayMailMayhem or #MMM) operation that Anonymous has attempted to instigate for a few weeks, driving people to make it a regular Monday event. Presumably on a Monday to... 

A 21 year old male from West Sussex, United Kingdom was jailed on the 16th May after hacking in to a private Facebook account. Gareth Crosskey was sentenced after an investigation by the Met Police Central e-Crime Unit. The Police Central e-Crime Unit is a national unit created to respond to serious incidents of cyber crime in the UK and forms part of the government’s response to cyber threats, under the National Cyber Security Program. Crosskey was charged and pleaded guilty under Section 1 and Section 3 of the Computers Misuse Act 1990. The... 

Artemis , a San Francisco based Internet Security specialist organisation plans to secure the web. They have applied for .secure top level domain name via the ICANN TLD Process, in the hope to provide a secure part of the Internet. Alex Stamos, Artemis CTO, states, “We are creating a safe neighbourhood where you know people follow the rules and you can rely on them to do things securely” To be part of the .secure domain you will need to evidence that you have applied appropriate security controls to your web environment. The idea is, if you... 

he Virgin Media Website was the subject of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on Tuesday. As a precaution the company took the site offline. The Anonymous Twitter accounts report that the attack was a response to Virgin Media being the first large ISP to block access to the Pirate Bay Website, as required by the High Court ruling handed down last month. Pirate Bay, via their Facebook page, states that they do not support the Anonymous activity and had placed the following comment “We’d like to be clear about our view on this:... 

An Anonymous Hacker hacker calling himself CyberZeist, today released over 280 FBI related email addressed and passwords, apparently hacked via a spear phishing attack. CyberZeist, previously a member of the hacking group UGNazis states that this release is a small portion of a much larger release. Spear Phising relies on the weakest link in IT security, humans. It starts by getting a single email address and sending a targeted email designed to get the user to respond. In this case it looks like a targeted user responded to an email request to...