Several NBC websites were briefly hacked today by a hacker trying to make a very original Guy Fawkes Day reference.

Researchers announced a new malware called miniFlame today that may be monitoring and stealing data from specific, highly profitable victims. It is a sister to the Flame malware that made headlines earlier this year. The malware was found by Kaspersky Lab [http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/763/miniFlame_aka_

Banking giant HSBC said that some of its websites had been hit by a “large scale” cyberattack that disrupted online services, but it assured customers that their data were not compromised. The bank said in a statement that HSBC servers came under a “large scale denial of service attack” on

The rootkit family Win32/Sirefef & Win64/Sirefef (a.k.a. ZeroAccess Botnet) update its command & control protocol & grow to infect more computers globally

Hackers from Indian Anonymous Group hacked Bharatiya Janata Party’s website, BJP.org, and defaced it.

Calling himself an Ethical Hacker;  Ankit Fadia is under cyberattack. A Hacktivist group, called Teamgreyhat, has officially declared operation against Ankit Fadia. According to official press release [http://pastebin.com/AywRQaHQ] TGH said #target Ankitfadia Engaged. In this attack they have successfully hacked into the Ankit Fadia’s official site

A group of hackers has released a set of ID numbers of 1m Apple devices & claimed to have obtained 12m Apple device IDs by hacking an FBI agent's laptop.

Japan’s Sony Corp said hackers have accessed the email addresses and names of as many as 400 of its mobile unit’s customers in China and Taiwan held on servers owned by a third-party vendor. No credit card information was compromised in the attack, which hacking group NullCrew claimed

US semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July.

hackers have broken into the database of TechRadar, leading website for technology news. Hackers have gained access to username, encrypted password and other personal details of the users.

A group of hackers have are claiming to have broken into servers of Elantis, a Belgian credit provider owned by Dexia & demanded  €150,000 ($196,000)

Microsoft’s online store in India was hit by hackers over the weekend of Feb 11-12, 2012.

Anonymous hacktivists continue to wage war on neo-Nazi, creating WikiLeaks based ‘Nazi-Leaks’ portal to expose data from the hunt. Anonymous hacktivists in Germany have renewed their assault against neo-Nazis in the new year. The effort, which began early last year, was dubbed “Operation Blitzkrieg [http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/anonymous-directs-its-efforts-toward-iran/

Hackers claiming to be Saudis posted credit card information of thousands of Israelis on the Internet, credit card companies said Tuesday, in what appeared to be a politically motivated attack. One expert played down its scope. The Israeli Ynet news website said the hackers, identifying themselves as Group-XP, called the