More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday’s theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica’s production servers and depleted its...

Hackers part of the UGNazi collective have gone silent for a while, but now they acquired another target on which they’ve launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The break seems to have been caused by the fact that a number of the group’s members have been arrested. “We were questioned for 48 hours about UGNazi...

Hackers are increasingly targeting small and medium-size businesses for cyber attacks, said experts speaking at the Connect Southern California Innovation Conference Thursday in San Diego. The event featured two panels on cyber security – one geared toward security regulations facing corporate information technology departments and...

A major US internet company may have been knocked offline by hackers affiliated with the Russian government on Wednesday. Ustream the online video streaming service whose users has provided live coverage of events ranging from police brutality on Occupy Wall Street to the apparent mental breakdown of Charlie Sheen in 2011 was shut down...

Hackers associated with Anonymous forced Virgin Media’s website offline for at least an hour on Tuesday, but the file-sharing service whose blockage sparked the protest has condemned the attack. In an operation dubbed OpTPB, Anonymous hackers apparently subjected Virgin’s site to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack...

This week hackers claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous posted details from about 55,000 twitter accounts. The hackers claim to have broken into twitter servers to steal the data. Twitter is now claiming that most of those 55,000 accounts are bogus. In fact, twitter says that most of those accounts that were published were for accounts...

A few days ago, Access Kenya, one of the country’s leading internet solutions and data services providers, revealed the introduction of a new, more secure, authentication system designed to protect their customers. After hearing the news, Rwandan hackers took a crack at the company’s website and demonstrated that additional work still...

Hackers from TeamGhostShell have initiated an operation called Project GhostShell. The first victim is the site of Forex Traders (fxtraders.eu), a company advertised as being a currency and money market, from which they leaked a large part of the database. “Hello again, did you miss us world governments? We’ve made you guys a...

According to an interview with The Guardian, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the UK has admitted to being the target of multiple breaches of its systems thanks to unknown hackers. While the number of attacks, or what systems were breached exactly, aren’t known, the MoD admits that it’s enough of a wakeup call to get smarter when...