Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down a website operated by US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that offers Internet security advice to consumers. The hit on OnGuardOnline.gov appears to go beyond the usual denial of service attack. The Pastebin post claiming responsibility for attack purports to show a...

The takedown of the MegaUpload website, and the arrest of its founders on copyright infringement charges, certainly upset the applecart. Earlier this week, for instance, we saw Anonymous launch denial-of-service attacks against US government and entertainment industry websites, tricking innocent people into clicking on links which...

At DefCon, Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, also known as @ihackbanme, showed off the new hacking tool, “The Android Network Toolkit,” dubbed Anti for short, which will soon be available for free in the Android Market. Looking for the catch for downloading and using the advanced hacking Anti app as a “penetration tool...

Hackers identifying themselves as the “Polish Underground” took down the Polish government website early on Monday, the most recent in a series of attacks protesting against anti-piracy legislation. At the weekend, the computer hacker group Anonymous launched attacks on official websites belonging to the Polish president,...

The team behind CyanogenMod, the massively popular unofficial Android ROM, are working on an app store of their very own. It’ll play host to all the apps you can’t find on Google’s official Android Market: black market heaven for hackers, in other words.   CyanogenMod developer Koushik Dutta took to Google+ over the the weekend...

The founder of online file-sharing websiteMegaupload argued in a New Zealand court Monday he was innocent on charges of internet piracy and money laundering and said authorities were trying to portray the blackest picture of him. Kim Dotcom, a German national, also known as Kim Schmitz, argued for bail saying through his lawyer that...

An Israeli hacker, who calls himself Hannibal online, has once again obtained tens of thousands of Facebook credentials (e-mail addresses and passwords). This time he’s claiming to have access to over 100,000 Facebook accounts belonging to Arabs. He has also announced he will not be posting again because “the Arab hackers are gone”...

Some filesharing sites are reining in their services in the aftermath of the recent high-profile shutdown of Megaupload. FileSonic has disabled all file sharing functionality on its website, restricting access so that users may only download their own files. Megaupload was a popular file locker service that allowed users to upload files...

Visitors to the CBS.com website earlier today were met with nothing, that’s because the hacktivist group Anonymous managed to not only perform a DDoS attack on the network but actually hack the company’s website and delete all files. Fortunately for CBS a backup was made for obvious (hacking) reasons and the company responded quickly...