CYBERCRIME

Twenty-six people have been arrested for possession and trading of images of child sexual assault using the Internet, the Manhattan district attorney announced Tuesday.

The United States and China will need to work out a high-level understanding to limit cyber attacks and spying, U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday.

Hactivist group Anonymous has painted a giant target on the back of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

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.

South Korea is scrambling to protect its computer systems after attacks against government agencies and financial institutions exposed vulnerabilities in a country that has the deepest Internet penetration anywhere.

It has been a quite successful run for the anonymous hacker group Lulz Security, responsible for the security breach of corporations and government agencies including PBS, Sony, Nintendo, Fox, FBI affiliate Infragard, US Senate, and Bethesda Softworks among its high profile targets. The group still manages to tweet and communicate through Pastebin and their own website without a domain-seize threat from federal agencies. The virtually connected members of the group with the face of a caricature,...

World leaders should put cyber security on the international agenda at forums such as the G20 and bring pressure to bear on slower-moving nations to take a stand against hacking, the co-founder of a global industry body said on Tuesday.

Turkey government has arrested 32 of the Anonymous hacking group, after a series of attack on the government websites were launched as a sign of protest to the government imposed internet censorship.

Governments, multinational corporations and global institutions are losing the battle against computer hackers and must combine their resources if they are to lock out cyber intruders, experts say.

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) computer system was hacked with large and sophisticated cyberattack and confidential data on national economies and finances are at the risk of exposure. The organization did not disclose the nature of the attack.

Lulzsec, the hackers who took down PBS and Sony has now taken interest in exposing email addresses and passwords of people visiting pornography websites.

Spanish police arrested three men suspected to be members of the hacker group Anonymous on Friday, charging them with organizing cyber attacks against the websites of Sony Corp, banks and governments -- but not the recent massive hacking of PlayStation gamers.

Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called Anonymous group on Friday on charges of cyber attacks against targets including Sony's PlayStation store, governments, businesses and banks.

EU countries agreed on Friday on tougher sanctions against people conducting cyber attacks such as those registered in recent weeks against the French government, European institutions and Citigroup.

Friday, Spain police reportedly arrested three alleged members of the hacker and activist group Anonymous.

Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called Anonymous group on Friday on charges of cyber-attacks against targets including Sony's PlayStation network, governments, businesses and banks.

The cyber attack on Citigroup Inc may force U.S. banks to adopt tougher security measures that they have put off for years because of the cost and fears that tighter security would inconvenience customers.

The hackers allegedly responsible for the Sony ordeal have been arrested.

Major U.S. banks came under growing pressure from banking regulators to improve the security of their customer account information after Citigroup Inc became the latest high-profile victim of a large-scale cyber attack.

LulzSec now has 100,000 followers on Twitter. That’s pretty fast for a group that only gained notoriety after May 30 when it placed a phony story of Tupac being a live on PBS.

Banking giant Citibank has confirmed that credit card data of about 200,000 North American customers have been hacked, the latest in a string of cyber attacks.