Lulz Security, also known as LulzSec or “those $#*! hackers again”, continued their unchallenged online rampage today. They dubbed their latest hacking conquests: Titanic Takeover Tuesday. The casualties of the attacks include Escapist Magazine as well as some popular online gaming sites.
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Lulz Security, the hacking group apparently motivated by nothing more than their desire to laugh at the mayhem they cause, has had a busy day in an event they called Titanic Takeover Tuesday. Taking a break from their dumps of user data and server break-ins, today saw the group perform a bunch of distributed denial of service attacks against a range of targets
COMMENTARY | Over the weekend, the hacker group Lulz Security broke into the Senate website.
Hacker group claiming responsibility for attacks on The Escapist, Minecraft, and Eve Online.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate’s website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.
In the wake of 26,000 emails and passwords being leaked, Lulz Security has a new target: the United States Senate.
The seemingly unstoppable Lulz Boat has apparently sailed past the digital security perimeters of both the US Senate and Bethesda Softworks .
A cyber attack that some are attributing to the hacking group, Lulz Security, has breached the database behind the website of the Department of Energy’s Y12 National Security Complex, which is located several miles from DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Lulz Security has struck again, pwning Pron.com and making off with the email addresses, logins and passwords of over 25,000 users. read more
Over the last two months, the multi-national Sony Corporation has come under a wide range of attacks from an even wider range of attackers. The backstory about what event prompted who to attack and why will make a mediocre made-for-TV movie someday. This article is not going to cover the brief history of hacks; readers can find details elsewhere.