Neowin News Feed for: Hackers

Microsoft debunks rumors of hackers causing Xbox Live outage

John Callaham — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:34:48 +0100

Microsoft said Saturday's lengthy outage of the Xbox 360's Xbox Live service was due to a "networking misconfiguration" and denied that a hacker group was in fact to blame. Read more...

US Government: disable Universal Plug and Play on routers due to hacker threat

John Callaham — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:46:35 +0000

The US Department of Homeland Security issued a statement today that urged individuals and businesses to disable Universal Plug and Play features from routers due to the threat of hacker attacks. Read more...

DNS change puts 284 Pakistani websites at mercy of hackers

Paul Ferson — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:16:04 +0000

A DNS change has put 284 webpages at a weakness to hackers. Among the pages defaced by a group of seemingly Turkish hackers are the eBay, Microsoft and Google sites. No groups claim responsibility. Read more...

Security breach in Florida results in theft of 300,000 identities

Christopher White — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:42:28 +0100

A coordinated attack on university systems in Florida has resulted in identity theft for nearly 300,000 students, faculty, and staff members. Nobody has claimed responsibility. Read more...

World of Warcraft hackers kill lots of in-game characters

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:13:19 +0100

Hackers apparently found an exploit in the servers of Blizzard's hit MMO World of Warcraft that allowed them to kill lots of player characters and NPCs all at once. Blizzard says it has now fixed it. Read more...

Second LulzSec suspect arrested over year-old hacking incident

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:50:43 +0100

An attack on Sony Pictures' website, more than a year ago, has not gone unpunished. A second suspect in the attack has been arrested over his crimes, and could face 15 years imprisonment for them. Read more...

Anonymous hacker releases information on GlobalCerts employees

Paul Ferson — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:41:45 +0100

A hacker claiming to be working for Anonymous and AntiSec has attacked GlobalCerts.com, dumping information on employees onto the internet. The hacker also provides their 'justification'. Read more...

Hacker 'AnonymouSabu' gains an additional six months of freedom

Paul Ferson — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:09:26 +0100

Notorious hacker 'AnonymouSabu' has gained an additional six months of freedom before his sentencing trial begins, due to his willingness to cooperate with the government he previously fought against. Read more...

Executive order could be used to issue Cybersecurity Bill

Paul Ferson — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:38:31 +0100

After the Republican party managed to reject the Cybersecurity Bill in Congress, indications have suggested Obama could issue an executive order for the bill, completely cutting Congress out. Read more...

Anonymous turns on hacker over children's charity attack

Paul Ferson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:52:31 +0100

After a charity intended to help children was attacked by a hacker attempting to prove his mettle, Anonymous reacted, delivering their own brand of vigilante justice upon the person responsible. Read more...

One in five Microsoft accounts controlled by hackers

Tyler Holman — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:19:30 +0100

Microsoft says that one in five Microsoft Accounts is now controlled by hackers, but it's not for lack of security on their end: it's people who reuse the same username and password on different sites Read more...

Thousands of people could lose Internet access on July 9th

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:58:58 +0100

Thanks to the efforts of the FBI and international law enforcement groups, you could lose your Internet access on July 9th due to a virus you never knew you had. We examine, and try to explain. Read more...

Hacking group UGNazi takes credit for Twitter outages

Paul Ferson — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:10:48 +0100

After Twitter suffered a 'cascaded bug' yesterday the site was down for a considerable period of time. Hacking group UGNazi have stepped up and taken credit for the actions leading to the outage. Read more...

Anonymous' "Operation Blackout" won't happen ... probably

John Callaham — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:03:42 +0100

The threat that the hacker group Anonymous will shut down the Internet this weekend for "Operation Blackout" most likely won't happen as some Anonymous news groups deny such a event is planned. Read more...

Hacker group taking over LulzSec name for new attacks

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:30:35 +0100

A cyber attack on the dating web site militarysingles.com has been claimed by a hacker group that calls itself LulzSec, a few weeks after the leader of that group assisted law enforcement teams. Read more...

Anonymous operating system causes security concerns

Paul Ferson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:55:33 +0000

An operating system allegedly created by members of the faceless hacktivist group Anonymous has prompted security warnings and concerns, with main group members distancing themselves from it. Read more...

Hackers slip into Digital Playground, steal credit card info

Christopher White — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:29:19 +0000

Digital Playground, one of the most popular pornography sites on the web, was hacked today. Over 40,000 credit card numbers and 72,000 usernames and passwords were stolen. Read more...

Report: Nortel's PC network breached by hackers for years

John Callaham — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:49:41 +0000

A new report claims that Nortel's PC network was breached by Chinese hackers for years and that Nortel not only knew about the problem but failed to report it when it went into bankruptcy in 2009. Read more...

Symantec offered $50,000 to source code hacker

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:01 +0000

Symantec admits that as part of a sting operation it offered to pay $50,000 to the hacker who said he had the source code to the company's PCAnywhere and Norton Anti-Virus products. Read more...

Hackers blast off into space

Paul Ferson — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:45:14 +0000

In an unusual new attempt to circumvent internet censorship, hackers have suggested using satellites in space, as no country could request their removal. Read more...