Hacker’s Hill funding at the halfway point

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CASCO – Loon Echo Land Trust reported this week that it has raised more than half the amount it needs to purchase Hacker’s Hill. The land trust’s executive director, Carrie Walia, reports the campaign has so far received donations and pledges totaling $435,000. The campaign began in earnest in late…

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Duqu hackers wipe all servers going back to 2009

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The hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their snooping operation, a security researcher said today. The 12 known command-and-control (CC) servers for Duqu were scrubbed of all files on 20 October, 2011, according to Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. That was just two days after rival antivirus firm Symantec went…

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Hackers target Portuguese websites

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Lulz Security computer hacker claims responsibility for the attacks on the governmental websites in Portugal, as a response to social inequalities and police brutality, Press TV reports. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

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Microsoft say hackers launch millions of Java exploits

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Hackers continue to launch attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle’s Java software in record numbers, Microsoft announced earlier this week. Citing research from a recent report, Tim Rains, a director in the company’s Trustworthy Computing group, said that up to half of all attacks detected and blocked by Microsoft’s security software…

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Alleged AT&T Hackers Have Ties to Terrorists

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November 30, 2011 By Johnell Johnson The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations helped to make a huge arrest, putting behind bars four Manila people accused of hacking numerous trunk lines of multiple U.S. telecommunication companies. One well-known target was AT&T. The arrests were a joint effort with police in…

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