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Facebook is under a porn attack -- and the digital delinquents known collectively as 'Anonymous' may be behind it.

A document purportedly leaked form the FBI's criminal-profiling unit calls Anonymous not a collection of activists , but a unified criminal group focused on protest and social disruption.

Using what one expert called "sophisticated techniques," unknown hackers have taken down terrorist group al-Qaida's Internet operation.

Law enforcement in at least three countries are actively pursuing LulzSec, but the biggest damage so far has been done by other hackers fed up with LulzSec grandstanding.

Twenty-five percent of US hackers are FBI informants, according to an investigative report by The Guardian.

Malware experts call Stuxnet techniques 'embarrassing;' virus-propagation experts predict knockoffs will start attacking everything in sight.

The FBI confirmed to PC World that it is investigating the recent intrusion by a group of hackers into Gawker Media's servers last weekend. The hack exposed more than 200,000 reader e-mail addresses and passwords, and the data is now circulating online as a peer-to-peer torrent file. An FBI representative declined to comment further about the ongoing investigation; however, Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton was scheduled to meet with federal authorities on Monday, according to The New York Post .

McDonald's is warning customers to be on guard against identity theft, phishing attacks, or other scams thanks to a data breach. What makes the data compromise more concerning is that it is indicative of a growing hacker strategy to go for the low-hanging fruit rather than staging a direct attack.

Security experts blamed a 'brute force' attack that exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners on poorly-designed AT&T software.

For the first time, hackers have become the biggest cause behind publicly reported data breaches, according to a recent report.

Should we hire criminal hackers as security experts? This is the second of a two-part attack on the idea from a 1995 debate in which I participated.

I should never be surprised at things related to government security efforts, but I did think the concept of hiring hackers was pretty much dead in government circles. Then comes the recent headline, " U.S. Looks to Hackers to Protect Cyber Networks." Frankly, I think it set the security profession back at least three years.