Blog Posts Tagged with "Digital Vigilantism"
Striking Back in Cyberspace: Sanctioned or Vigilantism?
June 26, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
You can strike back. Hiring your own security team you can discover who broke into your system. Establishing a honeypot, replicating your system and putting in ghost files will this tie up your infiltrators and significantly waste their time, and you can find out more about their techniques and track where they are...
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Companies Go on the Offensive
June 26, 2012 Added by:Mark Baldwin
Being the victim of an attack is not fun and it is easy to understand why businesses would like to take a more active stance against the attackers. Unfortunately, businesses that go down this path are likely to run into technical and legal problems. Let’s examine some of the possible outcomes...
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Active Defense: The New Digital Wild West Justice
June 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
This will just get out of hand and incredibly stupid. Sure, you can say that you are just going to maybe tarpit those attackers to prevent them from getting in quickly, but, you have to know that there will be (already are) services where blackhat types will hack back against those who “dun you wrong”...
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We Don’t Need Cyber-Vigilante Justice
June 15, 2012 Added by:Andy Willingham
You see what made me so mad? It wasn’t the release of the PII of all those innocent people, it was their reason for doing it. They reported a web site vulnerability and it wasn’t fixed, so they decided to post PII of thousands of people on the internet. Who put them in the role of deciding who wins and who loses?
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Meet a Cyber Special Ops Warrior: th3j35t3r
June 05, 2012 Added by:Laura Walker
Although the Jester is often described as a cyber vigilante, his operations tend to steer shy of retributive justice and drive more toward disruption of enemy operations. His targets are researched, specific, and his mission is consistent. There is also the psychological component to PWNing the enemy...
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Patriot Hackers: GET OFF MY LAWN!
April 18, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Do something constructive instead of destructive and inhibiting. You never know what you are stumbling about in. You could be ruining operations that lead to arrests or actionable intelligence. Think about it before you go all Charles Bronson and then a Pastebin dump about it...
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Patriot Hackers: Stand YOUR Ground - Not Mine
April 16, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
Let’s not replicate the sins of our Governments. Let’s not aggravate the problems Governments face. I don't disregard the threats radicalization online brings. I'm suggesting Cyber Vigilantism is not a movement we want to support by throwing our Western weight behind it...
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Moralizing, Anonymous, and Digital Vigilantism
October 30, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
It would seem that Anonymous, Antisec, and LulzSec have already decided to take up the mantle of vigilante’s already. However, the targets have been, for the most part, varied parties that could be seen as hapless victims or as malefactors, it all depends on the point of view really...
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