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The online gaming world is reeling following a Tuesday filled with non-stop DDoS attacks against a number of industry heavyweights. read more

Operation Payback 2.0? HSToday Members of Anonymous , as Wikileaks ' self-proclaimed cyber-supoorters are codenamed, posted new versions of open source distributed denial of service (DDoS) … and more

Operation Payback's next DDoS target: Fax machines Netcraft Operation Payback has begun a new fax-based campaign against some of the companies who decided to distance themselves from WikiLeaks. … and more

Some online service providers are in the cross hairs this week for allegedly abandoning WikiLeaks after it published secret U.S. diplomatic cables and drew retaliatory technical, political and legal attacks. But the secret-spilling site’s woes may be attributable in part to its own technical and administrative missteps as well as outside attempts at censorship. Struggling […]

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation and as evidence in trial,” the researchers […]

Security experts at the Black Hat conference said Thursday that hackers can break into an iPhone to intercept text messages, deliver spam and deliver malware.