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Hacker collectivist Anonymous relies on rudimentary exploits "commonly associated with less skilled hackers, referred to as 'Script Kiddies,'" says the Homeland Security Department in an unclassified Read more...

Hackers appearing to originate from Jinan, China have hijacked the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) email accounts of hundreds of users, including the personal accounts of senior U.S. government officials, Read more...

Automation and remote monitoring has helped the high voltage electric transmission industry grow, but it also has become an area of vulnerability. "Fully protecting the system from a coordinated Read more...

Malicious code was discovered on three Treasury Department websites on May 3 and by the next morning the infected sites had been closed, allegedly for cleaning, according to Roger Thompson, chief Read more...

A federal jury found Tennessee man David Kernell, 22, guilty of felony obstruction of justice and unauthorized access of a computer, a misdemeanor, after he accessed a Yahoo! email account in Read more...

The federal government lacks cyber security talent, says SANS Institute Research Director Alan Paller. Quick, somebody recruit the hacker who won a 2009 SANS hacker competition by taking control of Read more...

A former TSA data analyst, Douglas James Duchak, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he twice intentionally uploaded malicious code into TSA databases. According to a two-count indictment Read more...

Hackers recently walked into the lion's den and snared a big win by defacing 49 House websites in the hours after the State of the Union address last week. It's clear this was more than a random Read more...

A researcher decided to show NASA how vulnerable its sites were, and did. Using SQL injection, the researcher was able to hack the sites for NASA's Instrument Systems and Technology Division and Read more...

Some secrets are worth keeping, and one of them is how to identify a cyberattack, congressional testimony revealed on Tuesday. Members of the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security Read more...