Though not exactly as expected, Anonymous, the organization that earlier threatened the Fullerton PD, came through on a threat to compromise the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) website on Sunday, says CNET. more ›

Hacker-activist group "Anonymous" has threatened retaliatory cyber attacks against the Fullerton Police Department over the death of Kelly Thomas, according to LA Now. more ›

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., the Culver City studio arm of the Japanese mega-corporation, confirmed Friday that company websites were breached in a hacker attack claimed by LulzSec, according to The Wrap. Sony did not detail the extent of the damage. more ›

The PlayStation Network is down once again in response to a new exploit discovered just days after Sony began restoring the service following a lengthy outage resulting from a security breach last month. more ›

If you're a Sony PlayStation user, you probably noticed that you couldn't connect to the gaming console's online network for the past ten days or so. Most figured it was probably just a network outage. But as we learned Tuesday -- one week into the outage -- Sony deliberately pulled the plug on its online network as well as its streaming and on demand content services on April 20. PlayStation's unencrypted user database was breached, allowing hackers access to info entered by the network's 77 million users. If you are one of the 77 million Sony Playstation users with a PlayStation Network or Qriocity account, a class-action lawsuit was filed on your behalf Wednesday. more ›

It seemed like it was just yesterday that Kutcher and Larry King were going head-to-head -- in a publicity stunt raising money for charity -- to see who could be the first to 1 million Twitter followers. That was April 2009. Today it takes less than 24 hours to reach one million -- if you're Charlie Sheen -- and apparently only the charity of Charlie Sheen's #tigerblood benefits in this case. more ›

The LA Times is reporting this morning that the UCLA system was hacked during the months of October and November, exposing the names, emails, and social security numbers of 800,000 current and former students. A letter that is going to be sent out today to the victims from Chancellor Abrams states that there is no evidence of misuse of the social security numbers... so far. "We take our responsibility to safeguard personal information very seriously.... more ›