Earlier this month, unknown hackers managed to gain illegal access to the details of around 36,000 individuals who were somehow connected to the US Army command center formerly located at Fort Monmouth.According to APP, the details of Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers,...

A 25-year-old Russian hacker has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating two DDoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008. "Cyber bandit" Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha was indicted in 2011, but he was just arrested in Cyprus on Wednesday. Zubakha was arrested on an international warrant and is currently...

A German group of Hackers known as Hackers Choice have released a program they assert will allow a single computer to take down a Web server using a secure connectionTHC-SSL-DOS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL.Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client....

The hactivist group Anonymous plans to take down the Fox News Web site on November 5, according to a new video released recently by the group.The group said it targeted the network for what it called biased news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests occurring in cities across the country.The network's "continued...