Three Californian 16-year-olds have been arrested for having allegedly broken into their high school, stolen keys and tests, installed keyloggers onto teachers’ computers and used that information to change their and other students’ grades.

The spammers have lately begun using Amazon’s cloud services for hosting the fake Facebook pages leading to surveys because it’s cheap and because is less likely that Facebook will block links from an Amazon domain.

There are two primary methods for your Twitter account to become compromised. Either you authorized a malicious application to connect to your account, or your password was guessed/stolen.

The US military aims to recruit 10,000 “cyber warriors”, and is apparently prepared to relax the usual entry criteria. They will accept long hair, even someone who can’t run too well.

Dotcom first developed a reputation as a computer hacker in his native Germany, where he was born Kim Schmitz.

10 well-known governmental and corporate sites with ties to the entertainment industry were assaulted and knocked offline in retaliation for the FBI shutting down Megaupload.com.

Online activists have attacked Polish government websites in protest against plans to sign an international copyright treaty.

Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 — at least that’s what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming in the name of the hacker network.

Apple’s most hacker-resistant hardware to date – the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, which are built around the Apple A5 chip – can now be jailbroken.

Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.