Computer Hacking

Mexican Computer Hackers Launch Cyber Protests

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 12:24

As Mexico celebrated Independence Day on Sunday, Mexican computer hackers were busy taking over government websites. The Mexican Cyber Protest, as the call themselves, complained about fraudulent elections, corruption and drug related violence and the state of the economy.

At least 10 government websites were attack in addition to a regional newspaper, Los Informantes.

"This is a peaceful cyber protest" read a statement on one of the websites that were hacked.

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Foreign Nations Successfully Hacking Into US Digital Cyber Networks Of Businesses And Government

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 11:18

Washington D.C. -

Shawn Henry, of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch said at least a half dozen countries are actively and successfully penetrating US networks gaining access to large and small companies, and getting into US government computer systems.

Most Common Hacked PASSWORDS of 2011

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 19:02

Here's the list of most common passwords that were hacked in 2011, is your password on this list?

We often have an attitude that "it won't happen to me" in life, and being hacked is no exception. Despite repeated warnings, the unwanted urgings of our employers making us change our passwords for security purposes, and common social and communication tools like Facebook and Google's gmail warning us not to make easy passwords, million of us make easy passwords to protect some of our most private of information.