HACKING

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.

A Twitter post by Internet hacker, Lulz Security, who recently mocked the security system of Sony and FBI, stated that the group has received thousands of dollars as donation to continue its attacks.

A recent cyber breach at EMC Corp's RSA security division and a related attack at defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp have damaged RSA's once-stellar reputation, according to industry experts.

LulzSec just defaced another website. It plastered a photo of its infamous mascot squarely in the middle of Black & Berg Cybersecurity Consulting.

Data storage firm EMC Ltd has offered to replace millions of potentially compromised SecurID electronic keys after hackers used data stolen from its RSA security division to break into Lockheed Martin's network.

The hackers' world is one of immense intrigue; betrayal looms large ahead of them at every turn and nasty surprises are what they deal with every day. And then, they cohabit with the strangest partners, the law enforcement machinery. For some, the governments offer protection against the pirates, hackers and cyber criminals of all hues, while for others, it's the government machinery that is in the dock - for invasive control over every movement, even the thought processes of all people.

Sony showed off its new PlayStation Vita handheld games device at a flashy Los Angeles event on Monday, in a bid to move on from the hacking attacks that forced the company to shut down its videogames network for almost a month.

U.S. Internet search giant Google has become a political tool denigrating the Chinese government, said an official Beijing newspaper on Monday. The newspaper warned Google that its statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.

Google has become a political tool vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.

An Apple store being constructed in Hamburg, Germany was defaced with a Windows logo on Saturday. More precisely, it was a Windows logo with incorrect coloring as the blue and green squares were swapped.

Multinationals and governments have succumbed to cyber attacks this week, spotlighting a growing trend for criminals and vigilantes to take to the net to cause havoc.

Just days after Sony restored its PlayStation Network and working to restore trust back to its customers, a new cyber attack hit the company again, this time it targeted Sony Pictures. The hackers reportedly stole 1 million users’ personal information from the Sony Pictures database.

None of the official U.S. government official's email account has been hacked, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday.

The FBI is investigating Google's claims that Chinese hackers were behind the recent hacking of several Gmail accounts.

Hacker attacks, real and fake claims on who hacked and who didn’t, and to top it all, speculation regarding who is going to be the next target. While distressed corporations that have been victims of these virtual hooligans in recent days struggle to restore order and gain back control over the dwindling shares, people across the world debate on the next likely target.

A war of words that broke out between superpowers US and China over recent Gmail hacking heightened tension between the world's top military powers.

Sony, which is still reeling from a hacking attempt in April, has been hit by another massive data breach. This time the victim is SonyPictures.com.

After alleged hackers in China compromised the personal e-mail accounts of top-notch American officials, military personnel and journalists, the world attention has shifted to cyber warfare and similar attacks that have happened in the past.

China has struck back fiercely against allegations that it’s engaged in hacking. Through its state-run media, it denies targeting the Gmail accounts of US government officials, US military personnel, and Chinese political activists.

Suspicion that some individual or entity in China was behind a recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin is growing among experts and agencies looking into the incident.

Responding to recent cyber attacks on global companies and government officials, Australia will develop a cyber defense strategy to combat hacking and electronic espionage, the government said on Friday.