Facebook targeted by hackers, says no user data compromised

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Facebook targeted by hackers, says no user data compromised

Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised.

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Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam

A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced to 12 years in a U.S. prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused more than $63 million in damages, according to the Department of Justice.

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Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers

The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper’s coverage of China, less than a day after a similar revelation from its competitor The New York Times.

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Cyberwarfare now menacing the enterprise, Kaspersky Lab says

Enterprise security managers have yet another worry to add to their list: cyberwarfare attacks.

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New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says

Hackers from China breached the computer network of The New York Times and stole passwords that allowed them to gain access to computers and email accounts for a period of four months, the newspaper reported late Wednesday.

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Former Anonymous members jailed in U.K. for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks

Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial and music industry organizations in 2010 by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.

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Diplomatic and government agencies targeted in years-long cyberespionage operation

Unidentified attackers stole sensitive information from hundreds of diplomatic, government, research and military organizations from around the world as part of a newly uncovered cyberespionage campaign that started nearly six years ago. The operation …

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