File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack....
Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK Tech
There's one thing that the US is clearly better at than the UK, and that's computer hacking. Our friends across the pond have smashed us in th...
BBC | Posted 10.05.2012 | UK Tech
Two teenagers in Norway have been arrested in connection with a series of computer attacks. Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is beli...
PA | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK
Cyber criminals have managed to hack into some of the Ministry of Defence's top secret computer systems, the military's head of cyber-security has adm...
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK
It was close to mid-night when followers of the Twitter-feed of Al-Arabiya, one of the leading satellite news channels in the Middle East, began noticing a series of controversial news post relating to the State of Qatar.
Melanie Hick | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Tech
Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly hacking into 259 companies in just 90 days. The Austrian minor is accused of attacki...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 12.04.2012 | UK Tech
The leader of the hacking group TeamPoison ('TeaMp0isoN') is a pretty old hand when it comes to carving up government security systems. He is, he s...
Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 09.04.2012 | UK Tech
An annual poll to find the world's most influential people has been won by the hacking collective Anonymous. The Time 100 poll was deluged with tho...
Andrew Kemshall | Posted 14.05.2012 | UK Tech
It's been 12 months since the security world woke to the horror that RSA Security's systems had been compromised and tens of millions of SecurID hardware tokens would have to be re-issued to clients.
PA | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK Tech
A man suspected of hacking into the website of one of the country's biggest abortion providers was being questioned by police on Friday. The 27-yea...
The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 08.05.2012 | UK Tech
The Pope has become the latest victim of the hacking group Anonymous, which attacked the Vatican website on Wednesday evening. A Vatican spokesp...
PA | Posted 07.03.2012 | UK Tech
Two Britons accused of major computer hacking plots are facing prosecution on both sides of the Atlantic. Scotland Yard and the FBI simultaneously ...
PA | Posted 06.03.2012 | UK
Two Britons were charged on Tuesday night with computer hacking for online activists LulzSec. Ryan Mark Ackroyd, 25, of Oak Road, Mexborough, Donca...
PA | Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK Tech
A teenager was arrested today in Ireland on suspicion of links to an international computer hacking group. The suspect, aged in his late teens, was...
Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 07.03.2012 | UK Tech
Three key members of the computer hacking collective LulzSec were arrested in New York, according to news wires. Fox News reports that the group's ...
Fox News | Melanie Hick | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK Tech
Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting large...
Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 05.03.2012 | UK Tech
It's, uh, bad. Two UK men have been charged with illegally downloading Michael Jackson's back catalogue. The alleged hackers, James Marks, 26, fro...
Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.04.2012 | UK Tech
Interpol has cracked down on the Anonymous hackers group, arresting 25 suspected members of the hacker collective across Europe and South America. ...
Dan Littauer | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK
An extremist Turkish Nationalist hacking group called Ayyıldız Tim hacked this weekend the Facebook user of Hebûn, the Kurdish LGBT Association based in Diyarbakir. Members of Hebûn are extremely concerned about sensitive information that was stored on their account and the fact that Kurdish LGBT people have been outed via the hacked user.
Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech
A phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard has been intercepted by hacking group Anonymous, revealing a conversation about cybercrime. The cal...
BBC | Melanie Hick | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech
Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. ...
Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 02.02.2012 | UK Tech
The government must do more to help the UK public dodge malware and stay safe online, say MPs on the Science and Technology Select Committee in a new ...
PA | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK Tech
British military officials, civil servants and parliamentarians have had their email addresses published on the internet after they were obtained by h...
The Huffington Post UK | Matt Bagwell | Posted 22.12.2011 | UK Celebrity
Mark Wright has become the latest celebrity to have their Twitter account hacked. The TOWIE star had to remove several dodgy tweets about his fello...
Dan Wagner | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK Tech
As soon as the papers get wind of stories about 'hacking', people are bound to ignore the bland reality of government system hacking in favour of an imaginary thriller movie, possibly starring William Hague in a full-length leather trench coat.
BBC | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK Tech