US man sentenced to 10 years’ prison over hospital DDoS
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for carrying out a cyber attack on a hospital.
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Forget 2015: Bing already knows which people, products and trends will win next year
Denim tuxedos and turtlenecks, the New England Patriots, Boyhood and Iggy Azalea. What do they all have in common? Microsoft's Bing predicts they'll win their respective categories in 2015.
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Senate's torture report will provoke hacktivist reprisals
The release Tuesday of the U.S. Senate's report that excoriated the Central Intelligence Agency for torturing suspected terrorists will result in retaliation by cyber-hacktivist groups, a security expert predicted today.
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Ferguson's tiny IT operation in the maelstrom
Ferguson, Mo., the city now in the midst of protests over a fatal police shooting, runs the type of IT department that gets almost no attention.
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LulzSec leader sentenced to time served
A leader of the LulzSec hacking group is walking free after serving about seven months in prison because of his cooperation with police that has helped prevent hundreds of other attacks.
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PayPal DDoS attackers plead guilty, some may walk free
Anonymous members, charged with a distributed denial-of-service attack on PayPal, entered a plea Thursday that could see some of them walk free at sentencing next December.
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Snowden, Cyber-espionage, hacktivism and Bitcoins cause security headaches
Kaspersky has revealed its definitive list of security incidents that shaped 2013.
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US man sentenced for participating in Anonymous DDoS
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company.
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Why we are losing the cyber security war and what we can do about it
Why are the world's most IT savvy companies unable to keep attackers out of their networks?
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US judge sentences Anonymous hacker to 10 years in prison
A member of the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a geopolitical analysis firm.
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US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks
The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a campaign called Operation Payback.
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Tesla's Model S vulnerable to hackers, kind of
It's the curse of the connected car – once it's linked to the Internet, it's, well, on the Internet. In the case of the Tesla Model S, this means that malicious hackers could, in theory, control some functions of the vehicle and even track it without the owner's knowledge.
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Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy
Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.
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Anonymous cyberattack on Israel finds disputed impact
Although the hactivist group Anonymous had declared its supporters would attack Israel on April 7 and "erase Israel from cyberspace," the damage from Anonymous so far appears to be minimal to Israeli government and bank websites that are among the main targets. However, now Israeli hactivists are fired up and counter-striking at Palestinian, Iranian and Turkish website targets.
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Australia charges alleged Anonymous member
Australian police have charged an unidentified juvenile, who is suspected to be a member of the hacker group Anonymous, on a number of counts related to unauthorized access to computer data.
