hackers

Police in Switzerland raided the home of a man who is suspected of carrying out computer attacks against Italian websites for the infamous hacker collective Anonymous according to Swiss prosecutors. “They seized lots of computer material,” Valerio Snider, spokesman for the prosecutor's office in...

The BBC is reporting that Sony (NYSE: SNE) has suffered another hacking attack to one of its major networks. Lulz Security, the aptly named group of disgruntled, anonymous hackers, claim to have stolen another one million passwords, email addresses, and other information. The group claims to have...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) revealed the suspected source of a hacking attack on Gmail accounts: users originating in China. Eric Grosse, engineering director on the Google Security Team, said in a blog post Wednesday that specific users were targeted. According to the post, "Through the strength of...

Hackers have struck again. As Benzinga readers are already aware, there have been a plethora of recent attacks by hackers on companies and on the NASDAQ itself. Recently, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) was the target by China-based hackers. According to Bloomberg, the hackers gained access to highly...