ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Hackers recently threatened to bring the internet to a halt. They failed to live up to the promise, but the net is not as secure as it might seem, writes Prof Alan Woodward.

Hackers have increased their firepower by 30% when they go after websites, according to Imperva’s second Web Application Attack Report (WAAR).

Several Russian news outlets and organisations have claimed they were subject to distributed denial of service attacks, which they say were designed to silence them during the country's Duma elections.

Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested by British police in connection with a series of internet attacks orchestrated by the Anonymous and LulzSec gangs.

Rogelio Hackett of Lithonia, Georgia who had been found with more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers that reportedly led to loses totaling more than $36 million, was sentenced on Friday to 120 months in prison.

The FBI charged alleged members of the hacking groups Antisec and Lulzsec with computer hacking crimes. So, how were they tracked down?

Duqu Servers Included Hacked Linux Systems
Be it brute force password hacking or another Stuxnet 0-Day, Duqu shows that Linux is vulnerable to hackers.

AntiSec Hackers Hit in Philippines and Peru...

Hackers affiliated with Anonymous and its AntiSec campaign have hacked into the website of Filipino Congress, as well as ten sites operated by the Peruvian government.

Originally launched by LulzSec, Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec) calls for the leaking of confidential data stolen from governmental websites with the purpose of exposing corruption and unethical behavior.

Many websites have been hit in the name of AntiSec so far, including several belonging to US government contractors, however, it seem the campaign is expanding all over the world.

Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Centre in Bonn, it was attacked by hackers...