The deputy social media editor at Reuters.com, is to be arrested for conspiring with members of the Anonymous hacking collective. According to his employers, a federal grand jury has indicted Matthew Keys for working with the hackers to break into the computers of his former employer the Tribune. Apparently it all happened before he joined Thomson Reuters.

No, Burger King hasn't been sold to McDonald's, although Burger King's Twitter profile was hijacked earlier by hackers who spoofed a McDonald's logo and photo.

The Federal Reserve has confirmed that it's been hacked, following a claim from Anonymous that it's harvested the details of 4,000 US bank executives.

Following its assault on Gaza, Israel has become the target of millions of DDoS attempts, with claims that several hundred websites have been brought down.

Hacking collective Anonymous has hit out at Wikileaks for - rather astonishingly - imposing a paywall on most of its content.

Self-styled Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown has been arrested at his apartment and taken into FBI custody.

The FBI has denied claims by hacking group AntiSec that it snaffled millions of device IDs from an agent's laptop.

The Anonymous hacking collective says it's brought down several UK government websites in protest at the country's treatment of Julian Assange.

The whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website is back online after coming under heavy and sustained DDoS attack for over a week.



Trapwire - designed by former CIA agents - can best be described as an advanced CCTV surveillance system.

Hacktivists linked to Anonymous have issued a call to action under the auspices of "Operation AnonTrademark" after a French company trademarked a logo commonly associated with the collective.



Cyber operatives linked to Anonymous have targeted a number of oil companies including Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, Gazprom and Rosneft. 



Cyber operatives with links to the Anonymous collective have moved to establish their own whistle-blowing website dedicated to political transparency.

WikiLeaks has begun publishing millions of documents linked to the Assad regime in Syria - which is currently engaged in an conflict against civilian protestors and armed combatants.

Hackers linked to the Anonymous collective have breached the digital perimeter protecting the Department of Justice (DoJ) network. 



A hacktivist group loosely associated with Anonymous targeted the Chicago Police Department over the weekend as mass protests against NATO spilled over into the digital realm.


WikiLeaks is slowly recovering from a sustained denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that lasted approximately 72 hours.

Christopher Doyon, aka Commander X, faces 15 years in prison for assaulting the county website of Santa Cruz, California to protest the forcible removal of a homeless encampment on the courthouse steps. 



Cyber activists associated with the Anonymous collective temporarily downed President Vladimir Putin's web site on Wednesday.