Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday. Interior Ministry Spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk said that Ex.ua was closed Tuesday after complaints from Microsoft, Adobe and other companies. The ministry said it has confiscated 200 servers that were used...

A group of Internet hackers said Tuesday it took down the website of Brazil’s second largest private sector bank, one day after it did the same with the country’s largest private bank. The group that calls itself “Anonymous Brasil” said on Twitter: “Attention sailors: Target hit! The http://bradesco.com.br is sinking. TANGO...

Once a threat confined to the margins of society, computer hackers have become a scourge of the modern age. Leading the charge is one group, Anonymous, launching online attacks on everything from scientology to credit card companies. As its fame has grown, Anonymous members have increasingly felt the real-world consequences of their...

For those who don’t know, s3rver.exe is the hacker that not long ago breached Sony Pictures, a couple of UFC sites, and countless government websites worldwide. “I started hacking when I was 11. I heard about Anonymous and then I started DDOS’ing sites,” S3rver said. In the course of the two years during which he learned...

It’s natural for viruses to mutate in nature and become stronger over time. The scary thing is that it’s now happening to computer viruses. Mutating viruses are nothing new, they are used to infect machines in a way that can’t be stopped by traditional anti-virus software. The problem comes in with a new report from Softwin, the...

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 ongoing saga between pro and anti-Israeli hackers continues to escalate as pro-Israel attackers use distributed denial of service attacks to take down the websites of three notable Saudi banks. In addition, hackers have released over 4,500 Saudi credits card numbers complete with expiration dates, names and addresses — data...

Have you shopped online at Zappos? If so, it’s time to change your password and stay away from clicking on phishing emails. Hackers have cracked into the popular shoe retailer owned by Amazon and stolen database of some 24 million customers. Hackers have got access to all data that was not encrypted which includes names, email addresses...

Amazon.com Inc.  was accused in a lawsuit by a customer of its Zappos.com unit of violating federal consumer credit laws by failing to protect her personal information after the company said hackers stole account numbers and other data. Theresa Stevens, a resident of Beaumont, Texas, said that as a result of the breach, she and other Zappos...