Hacking

Turkish minister blames university over cyberattacks

A minister has blamed the Turkish university managing DNS serverd over recent cyberattacks that targeted websites with the extension ".tr," saying insufficient measures had been taken.

Transportation Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m said the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) should have taken more measures over the attacks, while highlighting the danger of cyberwar.

Anonymous vs. ISIS: Paris attacks spearhead a cyber war (vid)

Hacker group Anonymous declared war against ISIS after the Paris attacks on Friday. A YouTube video, in French, said it would use its knowledge to “unite humanity” and warned terorrists to expect them. A spokesperson wearing the Anonymous mask said: “Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down.

You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go.

Kosovo 'Islamic State' Hacker's Family 'is Pro-American'

The father of Ardit Ferizi, who was arrested in Malaysia for allegedly breaking into a US company's computer system, taking the personal details of more than 1,300 US military and government staff and passing them to an Islamic State militant, admitted on Friday that his son had been in trouble for hacking before.

US says data on four million government staff hacked

The US government on June 4 admitted hackers accessed the personal data of at least four million current and former federal employees, in a vast cyber-attack suspected to have originated in China.

"As a result of the incident," uncovered in April, the Office of Personnel Management said it "will send notifications to approximately four million individuals."  

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