News tagged with hacker attack
Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline (Update 2)
The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
Feb 10, 2012 |
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European parliament website under cyber attack
The European parliament website came under cyber attack Thursday but hackers failed to penetrate the assembly's internal network, a spokesman said.
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Hackers launch fresh attacks on Israeli websites
Arab hackers claimed responsibility Wednesday for a series of attacks on prominent Israeli websites, including that of daily newspaper Haaretz.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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'Anonymous' hackers attack Brazilian websites
The computer hacker group Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district Saturday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com.
Jan 22, 2012 |
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US shoe seller says hacker compromised accounts
US online shoe seller Zappos.com was notifying some 24 million customers Monday that a hacker had gained entry to its computer network, but said credit card data was not affected.
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Websites of Israel bourse, airline brought down
The websites of Israeli national carrier El Al and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) were both offline on Monday morning, hours after they were reportedly threatened by a Saudi hacker.
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Sony's Stringer 'to step down' as president
Howard Stringer, the Welsh-born American head of Japanese games, music and electronics giant Sony, is to step down as the firm's president, reports said Saturday, while remaining CEO and chairman.
Jan 07, 2012 |
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Hackers breach servers of Japan's Square Enix
Japanese game developer Square Enix said that servers containing data on 1.8 million customers had been hacked, but said the extent of the damage was not yet known.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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NIST improves tool for hardening software against cyber attack
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have dramatically enlarged a database designed to improve applications that help programmers find weaknesses in software. This ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Sony chief to fight on after 'annus horribilis'
Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said Thursday that he has no plans to step down and was "up for the fight" of turning the Japanese electronics giant around after a year of setbacks.
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Secure updates for navigation systems and company
At the push of a button by the driver, control units download the car manufacturer's new software -- such as enhanced map material for the navigation system. To ensure that this data channel is protected from hacker attack, ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Apparent pro-Syria group hacks Harvard website
(AP) -- Hackers have briefly defaced Harvard University's website, replacing the home page with an image of Syria's President Bashar Assad together with a message accusing the U.S. of supporting the uprising against him ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Nokia developer community hacked
(AP) -- Nokia Corp. says hackers have breached the security on its developer community discussion site and accessed forum members' email addresses.
Aug 29, 2011 |
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BART ready for renewed protests after cyber attack
(AP) -- San Francisco's mass transit system prepared for renewed protests Monday, a day after hackers angry over blocked cell phone service at some transit stations broke into a website and posted company ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Hackers protest BART decision to block cellphones
(AP) -- Hackers broke into a website for San Francisco's mass transit system Sunday and posted contact information for more than 2,000 customers, the latest showdown between anarchists angry at perceived ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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