Of all the server hosting contingency plans on the books, here’s one you probably missed: web server takedown and seizure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
It just happened in Reston, Virginia on Tuesday, though at this point it’s anyone’s guess why. All we know is that the timing coincides with yesterday’s reported arrest by …
Several “gray-hat” hackers are mounting an effort to unmask the persons behind Lulz Security, the group responsible for a rash of brazen attacks and breaches over the past month.
Among the cyber vigilantes are The Jester (a.k.a. Th3j35t3r), a self-described ex-military gray-hat hacker who has previously attacked Wikileaks and …
If hacker collective Anonymous dominated the headlines the first half of this year, the second half may belong to upstart Lulz Security, whose brazen and prolific hacking is unprecedented.
In the past 30 days its targets have run the gamut from PBS to Sony to the CIA, and LulzSec has recently set its sights on Anonymous itself. So …
As hacktivist group LulzSec steps up its game and targets serious quarry like the U.S. Senate and CIA, authorities worldwide have been rounding up individuals suspected of participating in Anonymous, the group behind scores of international cyber attacks, most notoriously recent ones against Sony.
LulzSec—purportedly a more …
The hacker collective calling itself “Anonymous” has promised some sort of action against the Federal Reserve today, according to the above video (posted to YouTube) which is apparently from members of Anonymous.
The group is calling its impending action “Operating Empire State Rebellion.”
The entirety of the text presented in the …
Hot on the heels of Spain’s recent arrest of three members of the hacking group known as “Anonymous,” Turkish police are now claiming to have rounded up an additional 32 members of the group.
According to Security Week:
“The Anatolia news agency said today that the suspects were taken into custody after conducting raids in a dozen
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NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it’s actually a hydra).
Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about “Anonymous”—the mysterious “hacktivist” group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony—has led the underground group to …
The hackers behind recent attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network may be less anonymous than they’d hoped. The New York Times is reporting that police in Spain say they’ve nabbed three individuals allegedly involved in recent hack-intrusions against Sony’s PSN (among other cyber-iniquities). The three were arrested independently in the
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PS3 owners, our long national nightmare is finally over. On Saturday May 14th, Sony exec Kaz Hirai delivered a video address that announced that Sony would be beginning a gradual roll-out of restoration for their Playstation Network and Qriocity services. (In a separate statement, the Sony Online Entertainment division also announced …
It’s getting to the point where Anonymous is like the Eye of Sauron: You don’t even want them looking in your general direction. As reports of the internet bogeyman collective’s splintering eke out, people formerly affiliated with Anonymous–who may or may not be responsible for the Playstation Network outage–continue to wreak havoc …
In-fighting. Bickering. Fracture. Those things happen to every fearsome social movement, whether it’s Civil War Confederates or Stalin-era Communists. Now, it’s supposedly happening in the invisible ranks of Anonymous, the hacker collective who may or may not be responsibe for the grand-mal crash of Sony’s Playstation Network.
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Yesterday Sony told a U.S. House of Representatives Committee that the culprits behind the PlayStation Network outages were none other than hacker collective Anonymous, the group responsible for the takedowns of websites like Visa.com and Westboro Baptist Church late last year. But the puzzling saga took another sharp turn this morning …
