Anonymous targets OnGuardOnline.gov to protest against SOPA

27 Jan, 2012, 12:24 pm IST Aaron Almeida General 16 Comments

A few days back it was reported that in retaliation to the FBI taking down MegaUpload, Anonymous, ... More

BTJunkie voluntarily shuts down

06 Feb, 2012, 4:07 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 9 Comments

BTJunkie, the file sharing and torrents index voluntarily decided to shut down after being in existence for 7 years. More

MegaUpload taken down by FBI, Anonymous attacks

20 Jan, 2012, 11:18 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 6 Comments

In the midst of all the SOPA and PIPA wars that are being battled, the FBI took down torrent site, MegaUpload, ... More

LulzSec States Motive Behind Recent Hacks

18 Jun, 2011, 1:43 pm IST Aaron Almeida Web services 4 Comments

LulzSec issues a press release in celebration of their 1000th tweet. More

LulzSec Calls it Quits After 50 Day Hackathon

27 Jun, 2011, 10:31 am IST Aaron Almeida Web services 2 Comments

Hacker group LulzSec have issued a press release stating that after fifty days of high profile hackings they are calling it quits. More

Hackers, IT units focusing on smartphone security

31 Dec, 2011, 3:04 pm IST 2 Comments

Mobile phones, long seen as safe amid rising threats to computer security, have become a key target for hackers ... More

Megaupload founder, Kim Dotcom, refused bail in New Zealand

03 Feb, 2012, 3:24 pm IST 1 Comments

A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail on Friday, ... More

Stratfor hackers publish email, password data

31 Dec, 2011, 2:22 pm IST 1 Comments

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses they ... More

German police resort to 'silent SMS' to track miscreants

05 Jan, 2012, 10:27 am IST Anuradha Shetty 1 Comments

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, a unit that is the German equivalent of the FBI has devised an unique method ... More

Megaupload founder faces lengthy extradition battle

25 Jan, 2012, 4:18 pm IST

Efforts by the United States to extradite the mastermind of an alleged Internet piracy scheme from New Zealand to face copyright infringement ... More

Anonymous Unfazed by Topiary Arrest, Starts Support Campaign

03 Aug, 2011, 10:19 am IST Aaron Almeida

Anonymous, as you probably know by now, is a hacker group that is made up of countless individuals who claim to oppose certain ways different governments or high profile organizations work. More

MPAA Trains Swedish Police on Digital Piracy

21 Feb, 2007, 6:18 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Windows

MPAA and FBI train Swedish police officers to combat digital piracy. More

FBI Busts Movie Piracy Ring

29 Jun, 2006, 8:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

In a major blow to piracy the FBI acting on tipoffs and a sizable investigation busted a group of pirates which the agency says was responsible for d... More

NZ judge grants Megaupload founder bail

23 Feb, 2012, 9:04 am IST Windows

U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him ... More

Megaupload faces more copyright, wire fraud charges

20 Feb, 2012, 10:16 am IST Windows

A U.S. grand jury added more charges against file-sharing website Megaupload and its executives, and also accused them of taking copyrighted ... More

Anonymous Issues a PayPal Boycott Message

27 Jul, 2011, 11:06 pm IST Karan Shah Windows

Anonymous has sent in a strong retaliation message to PayPal via an announcement on pastebin.com for the arrests of around 14 people who were charged with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on PayPal’s systems. More

FBI Going Undercover on Facebook

17 Mar, 2010, 9:59 am IST IANS Windows

US law-enforcement agents are being trained to use social-networking sites like Facebook to befriend suspects and collect evidence. More

Megaupload founder's lavish lifestyle interrupted with recent arrest in NZ

24 Jan, 2012, 4:14 pm IST Windows

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's online profile was larger-than-life, with fast women, faster cars and chartered planes, yet he lived like a virtual recluse ... More

Anonymous Sheds Light on LulzSec

27 Jun, 2011, 11:31 am IST Aaron Almeida Windows

Hacker group Anonymous who are most popularly known for their online activist campaigns against Sony, the Indian government’s National Informatics Centre More

Anonymous publishes FBI, Scotland Yard phone call recording

04 Feb, 2012, 3:10 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Windows

Anonymous, the always action taking hacktivist group, published the recordings of a phone call between the FBI ... More