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A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of Operation Payback. 4Chan’s site was down for more than 24 hours, but is back online after suffering its most damaging attack as of late. The site has continued to gain more notoriety as WikiLeaks remains in the headlines, and DDoS attacks aren’t uncommon against 4chan. As part of Operation Payback, the Anonymous group attacked a number of websites of companies that were standing up against WikiLeaks. Credit card companies such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal cut direct ties with WikiLeaks, cutting off donations to the site. Anonymous then targeted the websites of these companies with coordinated DDoS attacks, causing many hours of downtime. Other groups and political figures were targeted for speakin...

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An engineering student has been arrested in Bhopal for hacking third party bank accounts to book railway and air tickets, police said. Sunny Kumar (20), a student of private engineering college, was arrested by Cyber Cell police on Tuesday for hacking third party accounts for transferring cash to book the tickets to those who asked him for them, Inspector General of Police (Cyber Cell), R K Mishra said. As he had no money in his account, Sunny gave heavy discount to his friends and acquaintances to earn money, Mishra said adding he used Internet banking for  committing the crime. However, Sunny generated the tickets in the name of the persons who wanted booking, he said. Action was taken against him after police received complaints from several persons that their bank statements showed money withdrawn for railway and air e-tickets without their knowledge, the IG said. Sunny hails from Bihar and has been living in a rented house, Mishra said. Cyber Cell officials are scanning the b...

American Honda says it has contacted millions of its customers after hackers stole a database containing names, email addresses, and VINs (the Vehicle Identification Number, or unique 17 character ID for your motor vehicle). The obvious danger is that cybercriminals might use the list to send out emails to Honda customers, designed to trick them into clicking on malicious attachments or links, or fool them into handing over personal information. After all, if the hackers were able to present themselves as Honda, and reassured you that they were genuine by quoting your Vehicle Identification Number, then as a Honda customer you might be very likely to click on a link or open an attachment. For that reason, Honda has contacted all of the 2.2 million customers it believes may have been affected by the security breach. According to a  report by the Columbus Dispatch , the data was stolen from a third-party company who sent out "Welcome" emails to customers who created accounts w...

China should invest more in its own Internet security, lest it become a victim, or even scapegoat, for international hacking activities, an industry expert said on Tuesday. " Our current protection input is not enough, and the scale and size is far less intensive compared to that of Europe and the United States, " Su Hao, an expert on international security at the China Foreign Affairs University, told  China Daily . Su was referring to a recent news source in Germany, which again singled out China for suspicion of cyber attacks. The report said Germany in 2010 detected a sharp rise in hacking activities - a large number of which it claimed may have been from China. "There has been a sharp rise in so-called electronic attacks on the networks of German government and local authorities," Interior Ministry spokesman Stefan Paris told a regular government briefing. Paris was quoted by the AFP as saying that "China is playing a large role in this". The report i...