In these attacks, web servers crash under the sheer volume of connections made by “zombie” computers worldwide that have been infected with a virus and enslaved to carry out the hackers’ commands. The cell is also accused of attacking Spain’s central …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Exclusive: CEO says hackers tried to extort data, money — Karim Hijazi knew his nightmare was just beginning when he saw that a mysterious e-mail had arrived in his inbox at 3 a.m. on May 26 that included his e-mail password and the subject line “Let us talk.”
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Hackers Hit Guy Who Live-Tweeted Bin Laden Raid — 33-year-old IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he heard an explosion and a helicopter hovering above. He started tweeting what was going on, and ended up unwittingly live-blogging the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
The computer network of the European Parliament is under cyberattack, and experts say the same hackers that hit the European Union Commission last week and the French Finance Ministry last month may be behind this security breach. A Parliament spokesperson …
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