Anonymous (internet groups)

They've hacked into the Pentagon, News Corps, and much more. Now hacktivist group Annonymous has announced 'Operation Facebook.' The hackers uploaded a video to YouTube last month warning people of their plans to take down the social media giant....

Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the social-networking giant's misuse of...

An alleged member of the hacker group LulzSec was arrested by FBI agents in connection with a massive computer attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this summer. Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix was arrested Thursday morning on charges of...

Hack Attacks Escalating? Here's a Reality Check Hack Attacks Escalating? Here's a Reality CheckHack attacks from online thugs such as Anonymous and LulzSec appear to signal a hacker Armageddon. Not only has Sony been relentlessly targeted by hackers this...

Online hackers have pirated the PBS website and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur -- who has been dead for almost 15 years -- is alive and living in New Zealand. The group -- called The Lulz Boat -- also posted what it said were...

Sony's hacking problems aren't over yet. On Wednesday morning, Philip Reitinger, Sony's newly hired chief information security officer, said that about 93,000 PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment user accounts might have been breached in a...

Guy Fawkes Day: Guy Fawkes was a mercenary and failed plotter, but a stylized version of his grinning mustachioed face has become the symbol of resistance for almost any political movement, including the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations....

REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- A story that at first seemed to point ominously to a dangerous new development in Mexico's drug war was spiraling into confusion Friday as social-media users claiming ties to the hackers group Anonymous announced -- and...

Spanish police reportedly arrested three alleged members of the hacker and activist group Anonymous on Friday on suspicion of taking part in online attacks against Sony's PlayStation network, as well as banks, businesses and government websites. The...

The International Monetary Fund was recently struck by a cyber attack on its computer system, but just what the incident entailed isn't being disclosed as of yet. "I can confirm that we are investigating an incident," said David Hawley, a spokesman for...

The hacker-activist group Anonymous retaliated against the Spanish Police over the weekend, after three of its members were arrested, by denying web surfers access to the law agency's website. Spanish police arrested three men on Friday, stating that they...