CYBERCRIME

The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.

Anonymous, a collective of hacktivist known for waging war against the U.S. government and big corporations, is now out to get Freedom Hosting, which it accuses of openly supporting child pornography.

Anonymous has set its sights on a Web hosting service for refusing to take down child pornography as its next target with its OPDarkNet plan.

The U.S. Department of Energy has been hit by recent successful cyber attacks and needs to do more to protect its computer systems, the department's internal watchdog said in a report on Monday.

Hacker collective Anonymous is back in action again and this time it has targeted Web sites hosting child pornography.

Anonymous, the infamous hacking group, attacked child pornography site Lolita City and many others in one of its most noble crusades yet. Anonymous hacked into 40 child pornography websites, including Lolita City, disabled the sites, and exposed the names of more than 1500 alleged pedophile users, reports ZDNet's Violet Blue.

First there was the Stuxnet computer virus that wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Now comes Duqu, which researchers on Tuesday said appears to be quite similar.

Christopher Chaney, who has been accused of hacking into some Hollywood celebrities’ email accounts and peeking into their private photos and other information, such as movie scripts, offered a heart-felt apology and claimed that he just could not stop doing so, for he was addicted.

U.S. securities regulators formally asked public companies for the first time to disclose cyber attacks against them, following a rash of high-profile Internet crimes.

U.S. securities regulators on Thursday issued guidelines for public companies to follow in disclosing cyber attacks following a rash of Internet crimes that caused lawmakers to call for clearer guidance on reporting the crimes.

A rash of cyber security breaches at U.S. public companies and an outcry from federal lawmakers has prompted U.S. securities regulators to issue guidance for when companies must disclose cyber attacks to investors.

Christopher Chaney, 35, who is from Jacksonville, Florida was arrested and accused of hacking into e-mail accounts and other devices for private information including movie scripts and private photos, after being investigated by federal authorities for 11 months.

Christopher Chaney, 35, who is from Jacksonville, Florida was arrested and accused of hacking into e-mail accounts and other devices for private information including movie scripts and private photos, after being investigated by federal authorities for 11 months.

Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed Operation Hackerazzi.

Information on Japan's Type 80 ASM-1 missile, which can be used against ships, may have been stolen during the August cyber attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, the Yomiuri daily said on Wednesday.

The attempted Anonymous takedown of the New York Stock Exchange Web site shows the strength and exposes the weakness of anarchist movements.

A reported threat from an activist hacker group to take protests against Wall Street to the Internet by crippling the New York Stock Exchange website appeared to come to nothing on Monday.

Sources affiliated with the hacker group Anonymous claim a video that says the hackers' plan to erase the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet in a move to support the Occupy Wall Street Movement is a hoax.

The chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee on Tuesday accused China of widespread cyber economic espionage and said many U.S. firms were afraid to come forward for fear their computers would be the targets of even more attacks.

The chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee on Tuesday accused China of widespread cyber economic espionage and said many U.S. firms were afraid to come forward for fear their computers would be the targets of even more attacks.

Japan plans to work more closely with private companies by sharing information on cyber attacks after defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was hacked, Nikkei business daily reported Sunday.