DepEd website now up and normal

The website of the Department of Education was up and running again on Saturday after being attacked early this week by pro-Taiwan hackers.

The website of the Department of Education was up and running again on Saturday after being attacked early this week by pro-Taiwan hackers.
Hackers broke into a daily deals website backed by online retail titan Amazon.com and breached the accounts of 50 million members, according to a report Friday by All Things Digital.

China and Romania were by far the largest sources of confirmed hacking attempts last year, with China’s mostly from state-controlled sources aimed at data theft, a new report said Tuesday.

Hackers group “Anonymous” on Thursday defaced the Information Technology section (technews.com.ph) of Manila Bulletin’s website.

The website of the office of the president was hacked by Anonymous Philippines Thursday morning because President Benigno Aquino III was allegedly “mishandling the Sabah issue.”

China has expressed a willingness to cooperate with the United States and others to combat hacking, after a top US official warned the international community was losing patience with Beijing.

US authorities were investigating Tuesday after hackers posted personal financial data belonging to First Lady Michelle Obama, the head of the FBI and several A-list celebrities online.

Suspected hackers have posted online what they say are personal data and credit files of US first lady Michelle Obama, FBI chief Robert Mueller and celebrities including Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Computer networks at the Reserve Bank of Australia have been hacked, some reportedly by Chinese-developed malware searching for sensitive information, officials said Monday.

China’s foreign minister on Saturday rejected accusations that the country’s military was behind massive hacking attacks on US and other foreign targets and called for more international cooperation in policing the Internet.

Cyber attacks raged between Malaysian and Filipino hackers over the weekend, mirroring the ground skirmishes in Sabah on Friday and Saturday, the Star newspaper of Malaysia reported Monday.

Microsoft joined Facebook and Apple on Friday on the list of US technology titans targeted in recent cyberattacks.

For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value secrets ranging from details on oil fields to advanced manufacturing technology.