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Nov 3, 20211 min read

FBI Memo Warns of Hacktivist Attacks Against Several Government Agencies

An FBI memo seen by Reuters makes reference to Anonymous attacks and compromised data from multiple government agencies including the...

Nov 3, 20211 min read

Anonymous Stratfor Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years

Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, associated with the hacker groups Anonymous and Antisec, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on November 15th...

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Fraudsters Used Spear Phishing Tactics to Initiate Attacks Against New York Times and Other Websites

In a high profile attack led by the Syrian Electronic Army against the New York Times and other websites, users accessing the affected...

Nov 2, 20212 min read

Anonymous Posts Bank Exec Data Stolen from the Federal Reserve

The personal information of over 4,000 banking executives was stolen from a compromised server at the Federal Reserve and then posted...

Nov 2, 20212 min read

Anonymous Warns They Will be Active in 2013, but McAfee Report Predicts their Decline

Over the final weekend of 2012 hacktivist group Anonymous released a video and statement that they will be busy in 2013 citing the...

Nov 2, 20212 min read

Amidst Organized Attacks Against Two Major Banks, Cyber Threat Level Raised to “High”

After distributed denial of service attacks disrupted Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase websites in late September the Financial...

Nov 2, 20212 min read

AntiSec Hackers Claim Data from 12 million Apple Users Stolen from FBI

The hactivist group AntiSec, associated with Anonymous, released a list of one million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) while...

Nov 1, 20215 min read

PRESS RELEASE: 2011: The Year Of The Data Breach

Sarasota, FL, January 6, 2012 / Internal Release - While companies focus their fraud prevention efforts on direct third party fraud, they...

Nov 1, 20212 min read

Anonymous Continues Holiday Hacking Spree

Hactivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continue their holiday hacking routine called LulzXmas after stealing sensitive data from...

Nov 1, 20212 min read

Anonymous Hacks UN, Threatens Banks

The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A...

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