NATO Threatens to “Persecute” Anonymous Hacktivists
Source: InfoSec Island General Rapporteur Lord Jopling has produced a draft report for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly which states that the rogue hacktivist group known as Anonymous “could potentially...
View ArticleHackers target IMF over Greece treatment
Source: AFP WASHINGTON — Vigilante hackers group “Anonymous” declared Wednesday an online attack against the International Monetary Fund over the strict conditions imposed by its bailout for Greece. A...
View ArticleAnonymous steals 10,000 Iranian government emails, plans DDoS attack
Source: Joe Falconer, The Next Web Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry’s website is still...
View ArticleSyrian Internet Shutdown and the Ongoing Militarization and Contestation of...
Today, it was reported by Renesys that beginning at 3:35 UTC and in the course of an hour and a half, two-thirds of Syrian networks had become disconnected from the global Internet. This latest...
View ArticleSpanish police website knocked offline after hacking suspects arrested
Source: Giles Tremlett , The Guardian Spain’s main police website was knocked offline over the weekend in an apparent revenge attack following the arrest of three suspected leaders of the hacking group...
View ArticleBreachfest 2011 Continues
Breachfest 2011 Continues The flood of news of breaches against high profile organizations that Ron Deibert has dubbed Breachfest 2011 remains in full force. Last week, LulzSec broke into the U.S....
View ArticleLulzSec Hacks Arizona Police in Retaliation for Racial Profiling
Source: Jason Mick, The Daily Tech LulzSec appears to be taking its promise to hack international governments and banking institutions — dubbed “op antisec” — seriously. The group on Thursday published...
View ArticleContestations in Cyberspace This Week
Contestations in Cyberspace this Week Contestation in and about cyberspace continued this week, with many instances of political events on the ground translating into anonymous actions in cyberspace,...
View ArticleAntiSec: Booz Allen Hamilton Confirm Anonymous Hacker Raid’s Authenticity
Source: Alastair Stevenson, International Business Times Leading U.S. Government and defence consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has confirmed a breach in its cyber security, adding credence to Anonymous...
View ArticleHackers Respond to Hacking Arrests with More Hacking
Source: Adam Clark Estes, The Atlantic Wire Last week’s arrests of 21 hackers worldwide was supposed to sound like a warning shot over the bow of LulzSec and Anonymous. The arrest happened in the U.S.,...
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