CYBERCRIME

LulzSec did it again and this time it isn't 'just another target'. In a major embarrassment for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), their public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET, within 20 minutes of LulzSec's tweet: Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz. The world's most famous spy agency website was taken out for about a couple of hours before it was back online.

Citigroup Inc said a cyber attack in May affected almost twice as many people as the bank's figures had initially suggested, as major U.S. lenders come under growing pressure from lawmakers to improve account security.

At least 41 Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight but no personal or financial data were compromised, government officials said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation becomes the latest target of a cyber-war waged by the activists.

The latest victim of the now infamous hacking group LulzSec is none other than the US's own Central Intelligence Agency, adding to the recent string of high profile hacking cases worldwide.

Automatic Data Processing Inc, the world's largest payroll processor, on Wednesday said it had become the latest big financial company attacked by cyber criminals.

The Lulz Security group of hackers behind recent attacks on Sony, the U.S. Senate and News Corp, said in a Tweet that it has set up a telephone hotline for suggestions on targets.

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.