Yahoo E-Mail accounts hacked in China. The attacks seemed to be coordinated and were against journalists, rights activists and academics. A Chinese human rights organization said that there web site was hit 5 days in a row. In at least one incident a hacked account had all there E-Mails forwarded to a mystery address. This [...]

You probably remember this hacker, who used the internet name of Hacker Croll, who gained access to celebrity Twitter account holders including President Obama´s. This dude gained access to the accounts by hacking an e-mail account belonging to a Twitter Administrator. It is also believed by the cops that he was responsible for hacks against [...]

Yesterdays outage was the result of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. So I guess strictly speaking they were not hacked but merely hit by a bot-net. Amazon was not the only one either. Twitter users of Amazon’s S3 service for Web hosting reported outages as well, and customers of Salesforce.com and Walmart.com were [...]