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Hacktivists urge PayPal boycott
27 July 2011LulzSec and Anonymous are urging users of the online payments service to close their accounts following arrest of alleged DDoS participant
Anonymous leaks data from Italian cyber police
26 July 2011Classified documents, supposedly stolen from Italy's cyber crime agency, leaked online by hacktivist group. Plus, US govt's cyber chief steps down
Sony insurer wants out of data breach claims
22 July 2011Sony’s insurer asks court to recognise that Sony’s policy doesn’t cover the damages of cyber crime, while Gartner analyst John Pescatore notes challenges in the provision of cyber insurance.
Alleged News Corp website hacking emerges in US
21 July 2011Close on the heels of phone hacking, old allegations emerge against a News Corp subsidiary, accusing it of illegal intrusions into a competitor's computer system
Hacking suspects arrested in UK, US and Netherlands
20 July 2011Over twenty suspected hackers were arrested Monday night, with 14 in the US held in connection with the DDoS attacks carried out against PayPal in December last year
Murdoch's UK papers told to tighten security
19 July 2011LulzSec hack again, planting a fake story on a website owned by Rupert Murdoch, while claiming to have stolen News Corp emails in the process
UK Malware levels rising in buildup to Olympics
19 July 2011The UK's share of malicious code appears to be rising in the run up to the Olympics, but Sophos security expert Graham Cluley says it makes little difference where the malware is hosted
Govt departments not using IT security services
15 July 2011GCHQ's IT security department suffered £3.6 million shortfall in 2009/10 after departments neglected to use its services
Hackers claim Monsanto strike
13 July 2011Anonymous says it has stolen employee data from agricultural giant as part of an online campaign against the company's business practices
There will be more cyber terrorism, warns Home Office
12 July 2011Home Secretary Theresa May lists cloud computing among technologies that terrorists are using to spread propaganda and plan attacks
Met Police jails three for phishing fraud
12 July 2011e-Crime unit investigation leads to conviction of three fraudsters who used fake bank emails to steal £600,000
Military contractor Booz Allen hacked
12 July 2011Another US military contractor falls victim to cyber attack, as hackers steal passwords and deface code
Over 900 police workers abused data access privileges
08 July 2011Hundreds of police workers were "subjected to disciplinary procedures for breaching the Data Protection Act", according to Big Brother Watch report
Angry customer hacks Paypal UK's twitter account
06 July 2011PayPal's UK twitter account publishes negative comments after apparent hijacking by a disgruntled customer
Hackers leak government data dump
28 June 2011Having assimilated LulzSec, Anonymous releases data and passwords stolen from the governments of Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil
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