Cyber attacks on PayPal, AT&T and other organizations weren’t just attempts to cause chaos or anarchistic assaults on the establishment, according to attorneys defending the fourteen members of Anonymous arrested earlier this year. Instead, they were apparently part of a political protest over the treatment of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian …
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Two More LulzSec, Anonymous Suspects Picked Up in U.K.
The noose appears to be tightening around hacktivist groups LulzSec and Anonymous: Two men, aged 24 and 20, were just picked up for reported connections to online attacks by the groups in recent months.
The two apparently shared the hacker identity “Kayla,” a name associated with Anonymous and attacks on California-based Internet …
‘Anonymous’ Stages Real Life Denial-of-Service Attack on BART
Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair Hill back on July 3rd of this year. Discontent with BART police has been festering for quite some time following the wrongful shooting death of …
Anonymous Vows to Topple Facebook, But Is It a Hoax?
Pro hacker tip: When you’re planning to hack someone, don’t tell them in advance. More importantly, don’t tell them exactly when you’re planning to rock their universe.
But that’s just what a video purportedly by hacktivist collective Anonymous does, boasting of an upcoming attack on Facebook, and setting the data for November 5, …
Anonymous and LulzSec Fire Back at Police with Lethal Data Dump
Members of the AntiSec hacking collective claim they’ve just pulled off their biggest heist-and-post yet, ostensibly dumping 10GB of confidential data purloined from U.S. law enforcement agencies in retaliation for the recent arrests of alleged Anonymous and LulzSec hackers.
Dubbed “Shooting Sherrifs Saturday,” the info-dump …
Anonymous: Hey, We Just Hacked NATO!
Anonymous, the hacker hive behind attacks on Sony, the Church of Scientology and various international governments has apparently trained its crosshairs on NATO, the military-minded North Atlantic Treaty Organization composed of the United States and multiple European countries. The group claims it managed to hack into NATO computers and …
FBI Arrests 14 Suspects from Hacker Group ‘Anonymous’
The FBI arrested 14 people earlier today suspected of being involved with the hacker group Anonymous. They are being charged on “various counts of conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer,” and participating in an attack against PayPal late last year.
Dubbed “Operation Payback,” Anonymous targeted PayPal after …
Anonymous Incurs Google+ Ban, Retaliates by Launching Own Social Network
If you can’t join ‘em, try and beat ‘em—that’s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members’ accounts feeling the banhammer from Google’s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it’s launching its own social networking site, …
‘Anonymous’ Hacks U.S. Military Contractors Booz Allen Hamilton
The masked crusaders at Anonymous have struck again—this time against the American military.
They didn’t manage to break into the Pentagon itself, but instead took aim at an easier target: private company Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of contract work for the armed forces and other government departments.
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Anonymous (Sort of) Hacks Apple, Says It Could Do More if So Inclined
Hacker activists Anonymous sort of hacked Apple over the weekend, not to disrupt the iTunes store or to break into iCloud, but just to make a point.
That point is, quite simply: “We could attack Apple if we wanted to. But right now, we don’t want to.”
Anonymous posted a brief warning on Twitter on Sunday. The link in it pointed to …
Sony Hacks: CEO Asked to Step Down by Shareholder, Refuses
During a recent shareholder meeting, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer made it very clear that he believes the world is at the cusp of a new age of cyber terrorism. Yet despite calls for him to step down from his post, during which Sony’s losses may have totaled over $24 billion from cyber attacks, he skirted around the issue, saying that …
NATO Reports ‘Probable Data Breach’ to One of Its Websites
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just issued a short statement that reads as follows:
“Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information
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