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• US man sentenced to 10 years’ prison over hospital DDoS

  A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for carrying out a cyber attack on a hospital.

• Senate's torture report will provoke hacktivist reprisals

  The release Tuesday of the U.S. Senate's report that excoriated the Central Intelligence Agency for torturing suspected terrorists will result in retaliation by cyber-hacktivist groups, a security expert predicted today.

• How Boston Children's Hospital Hit Back at Anonymous

  On March 20, Dr. Daniel J. Nigrin, senior vice president for information services and CIO at Boston Children's Hospital, got word that his organization faced an imminent threat from Anonymous in response to the hospital's diagnosis and treatment of a 15-year-old girl removed from her parent's care by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• Ferguson's tiny IT operation in the maelstrom

  Ferguson, Mo., the city now in the midst of protests over a fatal police shooting, runs the type of IT department that gets almost no attention.

• LulzSec leader sentenced to time served

  A leader of the LulzSec hacking group is walking free after serving about seven months in prison because of his cooperation with police that has helped prevent hundreds of other attacks.

• PayPal DDoS attackers plead guilty, some may walk free

  Anonymous members, charged with a distributed denial-of-service attack on PayPal, entered a plea Thursday that could see some of them walk free at sentencing next December.

• US man sentenced for participating in Anonymous DDoS

  A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company.

• Why we are losing the cyber security war and what we can do about it

  Why are the world's most IT savvy companies unable to keep attackers out of their networks?

• US judge sentences Anonymous hacker to 10 years in prison

  A member of the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a geopolitical analysis firm.

• US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks

  The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a campaign called Operation Payback.

• Tesla's Model S vulnerable to hackers, kind of

  It's the curse of the connected car – once it's linked to the Internet, it's, well, on the Internet. In the case of the Tesla Model S, this means that malicious hackers could, in theory, control some functions of the vehicle and even track it without the owner's knowledge.

• Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy

  Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.

• Anonymous cyberattack on Israel finds disputed impact

  Although the hactivist group Anonymous had declared its supporters would attack Israel on April 7 and "erase Israel from cyberspace," the damage from Anonymous so far appears to be minimal to Israeli government and bank websites that are among the main targets. However, now Israeli hactivists are fired up and counter-striking at Palestinian, Iranian and Turkish website targets.

• Australia charges alleged Anonymous member

  Australian police have charged an unidentified juvenile, who is suspected to be a member of the hacker group Anonymous, on a number of counts related to unauthorized access to computer data.

• Wisconsin man charged with participating in Anonymous DDoS

  A man in Wisconsin has been charged with participation in a distributed denial-of-service attack in February, 2011 against Koch Industries by hacker group Anonymous .