The source code for Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2006 was published to The Pirate Bay late Thursday, ZDNet reports. Activists associated with the loosely organized hacker collective Anonymous “proudly” announced the news via Twitter, with code to the software’s consumer version, corporate edition and files for Windows, Unix and NetWare being made available. The group has

LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker from New York City otherwise known as “Sabu,” has helped lead the FBI to the arrests of other infamous LulzSec hackers. Monsegur was allegedly arrested last year and has been working on the FBI’s side ever since. He is reportedly an unemployed 28-year old father of two living in

The hacking group Anonymous is infamous for attacking everything from police departments to government websites and social networks, but now the government fears that the hacking collective could go after something much more important: the U.S. power grid. General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) wrote a letter to the White

This is the part in the movie when a montage usually happens. The subjects of a criminal investigation have just taunted the authorities, saying “You can’t stop us,” spurring images of field agents working tirelessly to prove them wrong. And usually, the action culminates in some sort of big showdown. But that’s fiction… or is

Early this morning, the FBI searched the New York homes of three young men — ages between late teens to early 20s — suspected of being affiliated with the griefer group Anonymous. Agents descended upon the Baldwin, NY, home of Giordani Jordan, along with two New York City residences in Long Island and Brooklyn, and

If there was one thing Lulzsec was good at, it was making headlines: The shadowy hacker group entered the public consciousness with the spark of a lit match, only to extinguish back into obscurity as soon as its one-and-a-half-month-long stick ran out. If there were two things Lulzsec was good at, it was making headlines and SQL injections,

On Tuesday, AntiSec, the hacker cooperative of Anonymous and former LulzSec members, took credit for attacking Universal and Viacom, releasing personal data, such as passwords from the Universal Music Website, and confidential Viacom information. This got me thinking — is there any real way for people to protect themselves from hacking? Corporate or government attacks

After announcing that it was going to disband over the weekend, hacker group LulzSec released an assortment of documents yesterday as a final hurrah on its way out. The files included several AT&T documents that indicate a 4G/LTE iPad is on the horizon, as well as apparently some malware. According to Stop Malvertising “the torrent

When LulzSec announced its disbanding over the weekend, a lot of people were sad to see the hacker group end its infamous 50-day run (Though it’s probably just a matter of time until we see a Hollywood version of its story hit the big screen). Others were thrilled to see it go away — though

Hacking — illicit fringe activity or family pastime? Why not both? In August, Defcon 19 in Las Vegas will be offering some related sessions for the youngsters, in a series dubbed Defcon Kids. Here, children ages 8 to 16 can learn about lock-picking, clue-deciphering, social engineering, white hat hacks and cyber security sessions. According to

For reasons known only to them, the LulzSec hacking group that has made such a splash recently with high profile attacks has decided to call it quits. The small group of hackers – which claims to only have six members – announced their final batch of “booty” last night via Twitter while also posting a

LulzSec, in a joint effort with fellow griefer group Anonymous, targeted Arizona Police yesterday when they leaked hundreds of confidential documents into the wild via BitTorrent. The intelligence docs, training manuals, and personal data (including names, e-mails, cell phone numbers and addresses of police workers) have been confirmed as authentic by Arizona law enforcement. The

Could it be? Is the head of LulzSec — the infamous group of hackers known throughout the world for its griefing exploits against the U.S. government, CIA, U.K. Census and multiple tech companies — actually a 19-year-old kid? Police in Wickford, Essex announced the detainment of Ryan Cleary, a teenager suspected of not just belonging

Information belonging to 1.3 million customers was stolen in a recent cyber attack against Japanese game developer Sega. The attackers stole email addresses, encrypted passwords, and birth dates for some Sega Pass customers; however, payment and credit card information for those accounts was not compromised. For the time being Sega Pass has been shut down

Lulz Security, a griefer group largely credited (blamed?) for its unwavering Sony attacks, was back at it again this week. Following its hacks of the U.S. Senate website, the group has claimed responsibility for two high-profile incidents: the packet-flooding (and crash) of the CIA’s website and an exploit that leaked a monster list of private

Spanish police have apprehended three people allegedly connected to the Sony PlayStation Network security attacks, among other hacks. The three thirty-something men are the leaders of the local branch of Anonymous, a global network of hundreds of “hacktivists” organized by cells formed in different countries. One of the suspects was found with a server in

Another day, another Sony site hacked. It appears that the hacking group known as LulzSec has successfully pulled off the hack of a Sony site that it hinted at yesterday.  The assumption was that it was another attempt at one of the company’s gaming sites, but instead it turned out to be the Sony Pictures,

Over the holiday weekend, one hacking group took PBS’ site and plastered an article on the front page which falsely stated that Tupac was indeed still alive and well. Why? For the “lulz,” it seems. Now, that same group is supposedly working on Sony. The news has come in a wave of Tweets that claim