A year ago,few people had heard of Anonymous, understood what a DDoS attack was, or even realized that hackers were capable of bringing down entire networks. But as geek bloggers love to point out, 2011 was the year of the hack, the year that Anonymous became a household name and armies of its devotees took to the streets, all wearing Guy Fawkes masks like that final, mind-blowing, Parliament …

Hacking movement boasts of stealing confidential client list and mining it for credit card numbers The loose-knit hacking movement Anonymous claims to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of US-based security thinktank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations …

Wikileaks court martial: Leaker angry over Military's treatment of gays Examiner.com One of the most devastating espionage cases of 2011 was the theft of classified military intelligence by a US soldier and the publication of the stolen documents on an Internet web site called Wikileaks .org. The suspect in the leaking of the classified … and more