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Source code belonging to Symantec Corporation that had been stolen in 2006 and held for ransom over the past month has been released by a group apparently associated with the hacking collective Anonymous. Symantec recently confirmed to CNET that law enforcement posing as employees of the antivirus firm had been in contact with a hacker known as Yamatough, who tried to get $50,000 out of the company to keep the code private. Negotiations, which transpired between the hacker and a person...

Unique combination of cyber security innovation and world-class information security. London (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 With cyber-criminals dramatically shifting their tactics towards low-volume, targeted attacks, cyber security innovator Digital Shadows and leading information security provider Activity today announced a strategic partnership which will enable Activity to offer Digital Shadows’ ground-breaking service to new and existing clients. “The current epidemic in social...

A Swedish government website has apparently been hit by a group of hackers claiming to be part of the Anonymous hacking network, reports Louise Nordstrom for the Associated Press (AP). The group, calling themselves CyberForce, said on Saturday it had attacked the government site bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic. “We have succeeded in the attack against the government,” it said in a Twitter post. The group also indicated it could launch more attacks...

Romanian police have arrested the hacker who gained notoriety for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computer systems. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, a 20-year-old who goes by the Internet name TinKode, allegedly revealed security holes and published information about SQL injection vulnerabilities he discovered. The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) said the hacker also offered a computer program to hack into websites on his blog, and published a video...

SEATTLE, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Black Hat, produced by UBM TechWeb, has announced that renowned speculative fiction writer Neal Stephenson will be interviewed in a keynote Q&A at this year's 15 year anniversary event. Black Hat USA 2012 is expected to host more than 6500 high-level security professionals for the most timely, actionable security presentations of the year. Black Hat is the world's biggest and most important family of information security events, and...

Following the success of its inaugural advanced training summit last year, the EC-Council is expanding the EC-Council Summit to two new cities this year. The EC-Council Summit, formerly known as the CAST Summit, is a highly technical and advanced training workshop that offers IT professionals the chance to acquire critical cybersecurity skills in intensive three-days highly technical training workshops. This upcoming series will feature training workshops including the world renowned...

Israeli officials have promised to respond to a cyber-attack that resulted in the theft and leakage of thousands of credit cards belonging to citizens of that country, BBC News reported Saturday. According to the British news organization, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called such activities as "a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation" and that it "must be treated as such." "Israel has active capabilities for striking at those who are trying to harm it, and no...

Citing the increasing threat of online censorship from governments internationally, computer hackers have announced plans to place their own communication satellites into orbit. According to BBC News Technology Reporter David Meyer, the plan, which was detailed this week during the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin, is in response to proposed legislation such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow the U.S. government to block websites believed to violate...

Members of the hacking collective Anonymous announced this week that they had breached the database of a military supply Web site earlier this month, reportedly obtaining 14,000 passwords and the credit card information of nearly 8,000 customers in the process. According to a Thursday article by Chloe Albanesius of PCMag, Anonymous targeted the website, SpecialForces.com, "their customer base is comprised primarily of military and law enforcement affiliated individuals, who have for too...

It is believed that hackers, based in China, gained access to America’s top business-lobbying group, the US Chamber of Commerce. It is not known when the initial break-in occurred but security officials from the Chamber quietly shut the breech down in May of 2010, Nicholas Wadhams of Bloomberg reports. The hackers gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, and was one of the boldest known infiltrations in what has become a...