LulzSec (Anonymous)

After security breaches at LinkedIn , Last.fm , and others, yet another big name has had account data released — but this time, there's much less to worry about. Hacker group LulzSec Reborn, known for leaking account data from Military Singles in March, has released what's been described as a...

The leaked Twitter accounts are from people who use TweetGif, a third-party app that lets users share animated GIFs.

If you needed another reason to be cautious about providing log-in credentials from your most personal and sacred accounts into an unconfirmed third-party app, here’s one. An app called TweetGif, which allowed users to share animated .gif images but only if they provided their Twitter username and...

Single soldiers site swallowed surprise load A dating website for US soldiers was hacked and its database leaked after it blindly trusted user-submitted files, according to an analysis by security firm Imperva. The report highlights the danger of handling documents uploaded to web apps.…

How MilitarySingles was hacked A military dating site attacked by hackers in March had serious security flaws, a report has found. MilitarySingles.com, whose users' details were dumped online by Lulzsec hacktivists, failed to prevent the upload of malicious user content and did not properly encrypt...

A former LulzSec member has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hacked into the servers of global intelligence company Stratfor and stole credit card data and personal details of 860,000 of its clients. Jeremy Hammond entered the plea on Monday during a brief hearing in US District Court...

VMware has confirmed a leak of source code from the ESX hypervisor. The code was posted on Pastebin on April 8 by a hacker calling himself "Hardcore Charlie." VMware confirmed the theft yesterday, and said there is a "possibility that more files may be posted in the future." The good news is that...

Harsh sentencing guidelines have failed to deter hackers, but prosecutors are likely to make examples of those arrested in the Anonymous-related hacking cases. [Read more]

Harsh sentencing guidelines have failed to deter hackers, but prosecutors are likely to make examples of those arrested in the Anonymous-related hacking cases. [Read more]

Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pled guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. Kretsinger went by the moniker "Recursion" and testified that he took part in a SQL...