Tag: ATTACK

A cyber-attack on an online marketing firm has impacted a wide array of companies and customers in what could be the largest data breach in U.S. history. The online marketer, Epsilon, sends out more than 40 billion email ads and offers each year, typically to users who register with a company's website, or give their email addresses while shopping online. On Friday, Epsilon announced that a ...

The E.U. is facing a cyber-attack of unprecedented proportions, a spokesman for the European Commission said yesterday. The attack began earlier this week, as the Commission prepared for a summit during which a military response in Libya, among other topics, is expected to be discussed. This ain't exactly the E.U.'s first time at the cyber-attack rodeo; E.U. computers are attacked frequently. ...

Say what you will about Anonymous, but it's hard to deny that the group has a flair for the dramatic. Yesterday, the collective ambushed one of the Westboro Baptist Church's websites, during a live joint interview on 'The David Pakman Show' of a WBC member and an Anonymous member. Throughout the segment, a member of Anonymous went back and forth with an incomprehensibly annoying church ...

The Web may be up and running in Egypt, but Anonymous clearly hasn't forgotten the Egyptian government's unprecedented shutdown of the Internet. The group of free speech 'hacktivists' is now claiming credit for taking down the websites of the Egyptian Ministry of Information and the National Democratic Party, which is currently in power. Anonymous confirmed the attacks in a message posted to its ...

It's no secret that the U.S. government is going after WikiLeaks and its elusive founder Julian Assange. According to the Smoking Gun, however, federal authorities have been targeting its supporters, as well. Earlier this month, a group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers known as Anonymous began launching a series of coordinated cyber-attacks against companies that had severed ties with Julian Assange's ...

A group of pro-Wikileaks hackers has claimed responsibility for taking down MasterCard's website this morning, in an apparent retaliation against the company's decision to suspend payment operations to Julian Assange's notorious whistleblowing organization. The MasterCard site reportedly fell prey to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, which flooded the site with so many requests ...

After demolishing a group of hapless suckers at 'Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos,' Eric Hamber decided to indulge in some self-congratulatory trash talk.The hapless suckers then decided to beat him up. The attack reportedly went down early last week, during lunch period at Hamber's high school. According to police in Vancouver, the garrulous gamer was confronted by the same group of kids he'd ...

Share Yesterday afternoon, a massive virus hit e-mail accounts across the world, including those at major corporations like ABC/Disney, Google, Coca-Cola and NASA. According to ABC News, the trojan virus spread through e-mails with subject lines that read 'Here You Have,' while other versions of the worm were hidden under subject lines like 'This is The Free Dowload Sex Movies,you can find it ...

Only a few miles from their target, three European eco-terrorists were arrested by Swiss police during a routine traffic stop on April 15th. According to The Daily Mail, Costantino Ragusa, Silvia Guerini and Luca Bernasconi -- all members of the Italian terrorist group Il Silvestre -- were arrested when authorities found a primed explosive device inside their vehicle. A police spokesman said the ...

Robbing a bank may no longer be the cinematic feat it once was, but as one North Carolina banker has proven, it can now be way more insidious. 37-year-old Rodney Reed Caverly, from Charlotte, has been charged with one count of computer fraud after allegedly installing malware on several Bank of America ATMs over a seven-month period ending in October 2009. As Wired reports, the former Bank of ...

In what will only increase tensions between China and the rest of the world, a new report from researchers at the University of Toronto claims a 'Shadow Network' in the Asian nation was responsible for a series of high-level hacks against India's government. According to The New York Times, researchers watched for more than eight months as Chinese hackers stole classified documents regarding ...

Reading your significant other's e-mails, texts, or Facebook messages usually turns out to be a bad idea. For example, a police officer in Martinsburg, West Virginia didn't take too kindly to some 'friendly' Facebook exchanges between his wife and a mutual friend. While some would simply talk it out, this cop allegedly decided to let his fists do the talking. According to Your4State.com, ...

An interesting new Web attack is making the rounds that hijacks your computer's clipboard and uses it against you. The code has been found lurking in Flash-based advertisements on legitimate web sites (we knew there was a reason we hated Flash). So what does this new Web attack do? It places a link (that is difficult to delete) to a Web site selling fake security software in your clipboard. ...

For the truly paranoid among us, there's a new extreme standard for which to strive in securing a good night's sleep. The "Quantum Sleeper" promises restful protection from "bio-terrorist attack, natural disaster, kidnappers/stalkers" and, of course, it's bulletproof. If you regularly bed down in a hostile environment, maybe this is the right bed for you. The great thing is that securing ...

Taliban militants are threatening to blow up the radio towers of cell phone companies in Afghanistan if they don't shut down their networks for ten hours, starting at 5 P.M, according to the Associated Press. Zabiullah Mujaheed, a Taliban spokesman, has said the networks have three days to comply with the demands. The Taliban believes that the U.S. military is using the cell phone signals to ...