The hacker’s war with the hackers

The cyber attack war has got at its new chapter, of hacker’s attack. The A-Team, a group of electronic intruders made public the names, email addresses, phone numbers and personal details like the girlfriends’ names and family of their main hacking competitors from Lulz Security, the group responsible for some very important intrusions like the CIA, IMF, Google or Sony ones.

Hackers Unite

The thieves who made off with more than $2.5M from Citibank and caused the bank to issue 100,000 replacement bank cards have highlighted an alarming trend. Hackers are evolving. And, they are organizing and uniting. They even have a Twitter account. Before the advent of the Internet, we called these hackers "robbers" or "criminals" or the "mafia." However, now that the Internet has provided a way to enter the front door through the digital underground, hacking has evolved in to a disastrous enterprise.
I'm seeing the evolution of four kinds of hackers emerging into cohesive groups that we need to pay close attention to.

Mobsters: The hackers who attacked Citibank are probably "mobster" hackers. Mobsters are hackers who

Reclusive and Dangerous: A Behind The Scenes Look Into The Fight Between Hacker Ryan Cleary And "Anonymous"

Two weeks ago, police officers from Scotland Yard arrested a 19-year-old Internet hacker named Ryan Cleary at his mother's home in Wickford. In the pictures that the authorities took of his bedroom, the only visible window is covered with tinfoil. Cleary's mother later said that her son had not left the room since Christmas - except to go to the bathroom.
Ryan Cleary barely existed in the physical world. He lived his life on the Internet, where he was not Ryan Cleary but an alternate version of himself called ViraL.
Cleary seems to have been an almost absurdly exaggerated version of the hacker loner, but as ViraL, he was allegedly one of the "key figures" in one of the most famous organisations in the digital underworld. He was

Facebook unveils deal with Skype as battle with Google hots up

Facebook announced a deal with Skype that will add live video chat to the social-networking site - marking the latest step-up in the battle against Google.
Founder of the social networking site, Mark Zuckerberg said it was an 'awesome' development for Skype as his company takes on the might of the internet search engine.
Google recently launched its Google+ service which also has a feature that allows video calls and the two companies are now locked in a head-to-head technological race.

'Something awesome': Mark Zuckerberg said that it's video chat service with
Skype will lead the way with social networking

Until now Facebook users have been limited to instant text chat and the move to incorporate Skype takes their game to the next level.

Gone in 60 seconds: 168 million emails, 700,000 Google searches... a mind-boggling snapshot of what happens on the Internet in just ONE MINUTE

We all know that the internet is a busy place, but computer wizards have worked out that it’s actually a lot busier than we ever thought. So busy, in fact, that it will make your head spin.

In just 60 seconds Google will deal with nearly 700,000 queries, 168,000,000 emails will be sent and 98,000 tweets tweeted on Twitter.

And that’s just for starters. The infographic below, produced by Go-Globe.com, gives a mind-blowing snapshot of 60 seconds in the life of the internet. Just where do we find the time to do it all?

Staggering: If this is what happens in just one minute on the internet, imagine what happens over a year

Japan creates world's fastest supercomputer which is as quick as one MILLION desktop PCs

• New machine is three times faster than China's former record holder

A Japanese supercomputer has snatched the title of the world's fastest machine, ending China's brief reign at the top after six months.
The K supercomputer, built by the Fujitsu Company, is as fast as one million desktop computers connected together.
It has more than three times the power than the previous title-holder and is capable of performing eight quadrillion calculations each second.

High-tech: The K supercomputer at Riken's laboratory in Kobe, contains 672 racks
with a total of 68,544 CPUs

A quadrillion is one followed by 15 zeroes and in computer jargon the speed is known as 8.2 petaflops.

'A-Team' Turns in LulzSec Members; Hackers' Identities Revealed

By IB Times Staff Reporter | July 6, 2011 11:41 AM EDT

The dark and intriguing world of hacking just got murkier, as a group of hackers called the "A-Team" revealed the details of the famed LulzSec hackers in an apparent spite attack.
Hackers do shop fellow hackers to llaw enforcement, one reason why the world of hacking is particularly dangerous. However, in the latest instance, data regarding an entire team of hackers that had the world terrified for several weeks has supposedly been revealed.

The A-Team has published the names, aliases, e-mail addresses,

First 12TB Network Storage Server From Seagate, Chock-Full of 3TB Drives

Has your small business outgrown its current network storage? Do you want space for all of your TV shows, games, and HD videos? Seagate might have the solution for you with its BlackArmor network-attached storage (NAS) system, with four bays that can take 3 terabyte drives for a grand total of 12 terabytes of sweet, sweet storage.

British teenager charged over cyber attack on CIA as pirate group takes revenge on 'snitches who framed him'

• 19-year-old charged with computer misuse relating to SOCA website hack
• Thought to be leader of the notorious Lulz Security hacking group
• FBI seized servers run by Swiss web hosting company DigitalOne as the arrest took place
• LulzSec claims it has brought down the official Brazilian Government website
• It said it did NOT hack into Britain's census information as one website alleged

Arrested: Ryan Cleary, pictured here aged 13, is suspected
of launching cyber attacks from the Essex bungalow where
he lives with his parents

One of the charges relates to bringing down the website of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency - the U.K.'s FBI equivalent - using a flood of traffic, in what is known as a 'distributed denial of service' attack.
Cleary is suspected of having ties to the Lulz Security hacking collective, which has recently targeted Sony, the CIA website and the U.S. Senate computer system.
British police had said Tuesday that a computer seized following Cleary's arrest was being examined specifically for Sony data.
All of the charges announced Wednesday are U.K. related and it was not known if the FBI also planned to file charges.

The news comes as internet hacking LulzSec took revenge on two people it claimed had 'snitched' on them and landed Cleary in custody.

LulzSec named two people on website PasteBin, including m_nerva, who was outed as Marshall Webb, a resident of Hamilton, Ohio.