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The article talks about a cyberattack on the airline company British Airways PLC website and mobile application which impacted 380,000 customers. The topic addressed include information stolen by the hackers comprising names, addresses and payment card details of customers who used the website or mobile application between August 21, 2018 and September 5, 2018.

The article reports on exposure of a pair of vulnerabilities in the Apache OpenWhisk, an open-source project, serverless runtime by PureSec. It refers to the two flaws including CVE-2018-11756 and CVE-2018-11757 that could have enabled the overwritting of the source code of a vulnerable function by a remote attacker.

The article offers information the most common distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that are expected to become more frequent and intense in 2018. It includes Domain Name System (DNS) Flood and Amplified DNS Flood, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Amplification and Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) Reflection Attacks, and Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Reflected Amplification Attack.

The article reports on managed security provider SecureWorks Inc.'s recommendation that the dupe is regularly played by some companies to hackers which make their crimes less lucrative and causes them more pain. It is noted that the company has called the approach offense-in-depth, which increases the attackers' risk and their effort.

The article reports that cyber attacks are becoming more dominant and computer hackers are starting to undertake data theft besides vandalism. It mentions the LulzSecurity, a group of six individuals that attacked the properties of Sony Corp. making it exposed to companies poor security practices. It states that the addition of the word hacktivism in cyber-protests into the English language continues to grow since it is effective in attracting attention.

The article describes the task of guarding votes for presidential election as daunting. Topics discussed include the leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memo regarding Russian hackers, voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT), and direct recording electronic (DRE). It notes that as of August 31, 2016, New Mexico is the only state with excellent process for auditing votes.

The article reports on the hacking of the networks of the entertainment firm Sony Pictures by the hacker group #GOP (Guardians of Peace) and is allegedly holding Sony's data hostage. According to Todd Harris, director at security firm Core Security, the attack is a blend of hacktivism, social engineering, intellectual property theft and data breach. It also presents views of several executives of security firms on the issue including Mike Davis of CounterTack and Kevin O'Brien of Conjur.

The article focuses on a survey by business-services firm Ernst & Young as of November 2014 which reveals that firms will spend more in 2015 to defend their information technology system, but they will continue to face problems in hiring skilled security professionals. The survey founds that most of the firms identified criminal syndicates and hacktivists as the most probable threats. Comments from Chip Tsantes, chief technology officer of cyber-security at Ernst & Young, are presented.

The author expresses his views on the breach in Adobe's Coldfusion Web building software that resulted to hacked Websites of U.S. government agencies by hacktivist group Anonymous. He believes that one factor that resulted to such breach was the password reuse in multiple sites. He suggests that multiple layers of security, authentication, and access may help in protecting organizations from attackers.

The article reports on the quarterly report released by network management firm Arbor Networks on October 16, 2013 which revealed that the majority of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have quadrupled in 2013 exceeding 20 Gigabyte per second (Gbps). It says that the DoS attacks are used as part of cyber-criminal campaigns and hacktivism. It states that most attacks are from rival gamers who use it to kick offline their opponents during a game.

The article focuses on the data breach report of Verizon Communications Inc. for 2012. It states that report reveals the ideology of greed that drives external attackers. Principal author Wade Baker of the Data Breach Investigations Report series mentions that hacktivists stole more data compared to other threat actor. The report shows that executives and managers are high risk for threat due to their high profile. Baker also cites the importance of understanding the adversaries of the attack.

The article reports that Ryan Cleary was arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury in England for hacking into Websites of several entertainment companies during a two-month spree. Cleary was accused of conspiring with other members of LulzSec, a hacktivist group. An overview of the indictment against Cleary is provided.

The article reports that a group of hackers claiming to be associated with the Anonymous group hacked a Web server and leaked 1.7 gigabytes (GB) of data belonging to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics online. The hacktivist claimed that they stand for the freedom of people, freedom of speech and freedom of information and not for any government or political parties. The U.S. Department of Justice is said to be investigating the issue with the cooperation of law enforcement.

The article provides information on the "2012 Data Breach Investigation Report" released by telecommunication company Verizon regarding cyber-hacking. The report reveals that 58 percent of the data stolen in 2011 is accounted for hacktivism, while, 97 percent were avoidable. The report shows that financial gain was the primary motivation for data breach. It adds that personal identifiable information (PII) as the main target of criminals.

The article reports on a hacker attack on the Vatican website by hacktivist group Anonymous as of March 7, 2012. According to the author, the attack is a protest against the doctrine and deeds of the Catholic Church in historical context, including supporting fascism, banning abortion, and executing opponents. Another attack of the same hacker group on the same day, namely on computer security company Panda Security's website PandaLabs, is also discussed.

The article discusses a hacker attack on computer security company Panda Security's website PandaLabs by hacker group Anonymous as of March 7, 2012. It is suggested that the attack is a retaliation for the arrest of members of the LulzSec hacker group on March 6, 2012. Details related to other Anonymous attacks are presented, including the attack on the website of security company Stratfor Global Intelligence in December 2011.

The article presents a panel discussion from the 2012 RSA computer security conference which analyzes how hacktivists could be potential employees at different companies. Particular focus is given to hacktivist group Anonymous. Unit chief of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) cyber-initiative and resource fusion unit Eric Strom, journalist Misha Glenny and vice president of cyber security firm Mandiant Grady Summers shared their views on the subject.