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The client was known online as Commander X, the leader of the People’s Liberation Front, a group allied with the hacker collective Anonymous. He was suspected of engineering an attack on the county of Santa Cruz’s servers, an allegation that could land him in prison for up to 15 years. His attorney, Jay Leiderman of [...]

A GIANT crocodile’s head has been found washed up on a beach with locals speculating it was the victim of a massive shark attack. Brigitte Cary-Smith, 50, and husband Neale, 56, discovered the huge decapitated head while walking their dogs on the beach in St Lucia, South Africa. See the photos, video here The gruesome [...]

An Auckland gym’s website has been disabled by a hacker called ” who has replaced the site’s content with a religious message and voiceover. The website for Health and Sports Fitness Club in Sandringham now bears an image of two hands clasped, the Kurdish flag and messages written in both Arabic and broken English. A [...]

Martial arts training has proven to be useful against a shark attack as Mariko Haugen used punches to the sensitive nose of the shark. When going swimming and diving in the ocean, one has to understand the many potential dangers involved. One such danger is a possible shark attack which is widely covered in the [...]

After ten years and seven months Gary McKinnon finally smiled. The former computer hacker sensationally won his fight to stay in Britain after the Home Secretary today confirmed that the he will not be extradited to the United States. But when the news came through, his mother Janis Sharp explained, he barely knew what to [...]

Until now, the most reports of Denial of Service (DoS) cyber-attacks against websites have related to hacktivist groups, such as Anonymous. However a new report suggests that online businesses are using this technique to attack competitors online. Security company Imperva, has published Denial of Service Attacks:  A Comprehensive Guide to Trends, Techniques and Technologies which [...]

DAMASCUS  – At least 30 civilians were reported killed Thursday in a massive explosion in northeast Syria as state media blamed a helicopter gunship crash on an accident but monitors said rebels shot it down. Dozens more people were wounded in the blast at a petrol station in the northeastern village of Ain Issa, the [...]

Two men who’ve been arrested on charges that they hacked into the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment and posted stolen data studied together at the same university, and they also participated on the university’s team for the Cyber Defense Competition held in March 2011, according to a former co-captain of the team. The attack against [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy SEAL who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden under a pseudonym was identified Thursday as Matt Bissonnette, who retired from the Navy last summer. Bissonnette was first identified by Fox News. One current and one former U.S. military official confirmed the name, speaking on condition [...]

Emails obtained via a hack of intelligence agency Stratfor have shed light on a secret, comprehensive U.S. surveillance effort led by Virginia-based TrapWire. The details were released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, but an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Wikileaks.org has made it difficult to access the TrapWire docs. “Yes, WikiLeaks revealed a [...]