“Only hours after two of its biggest releases ever, the online collective Anonymous is taking credit for crashing the website of the US Department of Homeland Security. Shortly before 4 p.m. EST Friday afternoon, the Homeland Security Department’s website, DHS.gov, was taken offline. It was announced on the Web by members of the loose-knit hacktivist [...]
“Ukrainian government websites have suffered a two-day cyber attack after the authorities closed a popular file-sharing service. The police have withdrawn the blocking order, but their investigation into alleged piracy is very much ongoing. Users lost access to dozens of official websites in Ukraine after they came under attack on Tuesday. Websites belonging to the [...]
“Internet giant VeriSign was hacked repeatedly in 2010 resulting in the theft of undisclosed information and raising questions about the integrity of security certificates issued by the company as well as its domain name service.” Source: VeriSign Hit by Hackers in 2010 | Threat Level | Wired.com
“Officials say cyber attacks have shut down the websites of the two main Palestinian news agencies, the official Wafa and the privately run Maan.” (Source: Websites of 2 Palestinian news agencies brought down by cyber attack – The Washington Post.)
“Internet hackers on Tuesday attacked the website of the second Brazilian bank in two days and vowed to continue the disruptions all week.” (Source: Hackers Attack Second Brazilian Bank’s Website – WSJ.com.)
“Symantec Corp took the rare step of advising customers to stop using one of its products, saying its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs is at increased risk of getting hacked after blueprints of that software were stolen.” (Source: Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere software | Reuters.)
“The Departments of Justice and Finance websites in the Irish Republic were both taken offline for a time on Wednesday in an apparent cyber attack. Both sites were down for about an hour after being targeted by hackers.” (Source: BBC News – Cyber attack crashes Irish government website.)
“Not even a whole week after Zappos was hacked, our favorite hosting service, DreamHost, has also had a breach. They say there’s “no evidence that customer passwords were taken”, but they”re pushing out password changes to everyone just to be safe.” (Source: DreamHost Hacked; Change Your Passwords Now.)
“The US government has closed down one of the world’s largest filesharing websites, accusing its founders of racketeering, money laundering and presiding over “massive” online piracy. According to prosecutors, Megaupload illegally cheated copyright holders out of $500m in revenue as part of a criminal enterprise spanning five years.” Source: US government hits Megaupload with mega [...]
“In one of the U.S. government’s largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads.” (Anonymous attacks DOJ site after feds shut down Megaupload – Jan. 19, 2012)
