Lulz Security, a hacking group that stole data from law enforcement, defaced the websites of major publications and published troves of user names and passwords from online services, has suffered a critical blow at the hands of law enforcement.
Controversial whistleblower Wikileaks has begun publishing some five million emails — dubbed “The Global Intelligence Files” — allegedly pilfered from geopolitics tell-all site Stratfor.
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline.
The Boston Police Department seems to be taking the recent hacking of its community news website in stride; a video uploaded to YouTube pokes fun at the hack with several tongue-in-cheek interviews of Boston-area police officers.
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.
If there’s one thing that Anonymous would really, really like the internet to know about its plans, it’s this: They’re not going to take down Facebook, no matter how many times people say the opposite.
By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular sci-fi real-time strategy game that’s designed to stress test whether a network can handle a distributed denial of service attack.
From sleeping dog to full-on Internet terror, it appears Anonymous may be exacting revenge on several federal and private groups after the Justice Department shuttered popular download site Megaupload this afternoon, charging it violated copyright laws.
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won’t need to.
Over 9,000 active credit cards, 27,000 phone numbers and 20,000 “easily cracked” passwords — that’s what hacktivist group Anonymous has released to date, after reportedly hacking international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor.
Be careful what you say, or say nothing at all, advises hacked international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor, after revealing hackers may be targeting members who offer public support for the company in the wake of a serious security breach.
