Blog Posts Tagged with "Anonymous"
NATO Threatens to "Persecute" Anonymous Hacktivists
June 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"It remains to be seen how much time Anonymous has for pursuing such paths. The longer these attacks persist the more likely countermeasures will be developed, implemented, the groups will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted..."
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Sony Rep to Testify for Congress About Network Breach
June 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We do not know who was responsible for the intrusion; nor do we know precisely the amount of information that was taken... These gaps in what we know are not for lack of trying by experts, but rather an unfortunate testament to the skill of those who perpetrated the attacks..."
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Anonymous Launches DDoS Attack on USChamber.com
May 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
At the time of this article's publication, the U.S. Chamber website was experiencing intermittent downtime. Anonymous now seems to be probing the systems for other vulnerabilities, such as susceptibility to a SQL-based attack...
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Anonymous: Not So Headless or Immune to Insider Threats
May 10, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
This is a grand social experiment that is being played out on the Internet for all to see. No matter how many times the groups may claim that they are leaderless and merely a collective, Anonymous will by their very human and social natures gravitate toward a leadership modality...
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AnonOps Network Pwned - Warned of Insider Threat
May 09, 2011 Added by:Headlines
It looks as if AnonOps has been pwned. Reports had surfaced that the hactktivist network AnonOps, which provides communication services used by the rogue movement Anonymous, is apparently battling threats to the integrity of their systems from a disgruntled insider...
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Chinese Hackers Are Hungry for Information
May 06, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Stuart McClure, Senior Vice President at McAfee co-authored his best-selling book Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions 12 years ago. In an interview with Varun Aggarwal, he talks about how things have changed since then as he launched the new edition of his book...
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Sony Tells Congress Anonymous DDoS Aided Breach
May 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Initially, Sony representatives did not seek to connect the hacktivist group with the data breach event. That has changed now that forensic investigators have located a file on the hacked PSN systems named "Anonymous" and containing the movement's tagline "We are Legion"...
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Anonymous to Target Iranian Government Websites
May 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Anonymous has issued a press release identifying the Iranian government as the target de jour for a DDoS attack campaign. The attacks were set to begin on May 1 in conjunction with International Workers Day. No specific target websites were named in the release...
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Anonymous: PlayStation Warrants and NZ DDoS Attacks
April 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Reports have been circulating that implicate the rogue movement Anonymous in DDoS attacks against New Zealand's Parliamentary website, as well as speculation that the FBI has issued arrest warrants for Anonymous members for the hacking the Sony PlayStation Network...
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HBGary's Open Letter to Customers and the Defense Marketplace
April 15, 2011 Added by:Headlines
While some details seem to jibe with the information contained in the tens-of-thousands of leaked emails, the letter for the most part just comes off as a generic attempt to rewrite the record and further distance HBGary Inc. from the activities of Aaron Barr and HBGary Federal..
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Hacker and Alleged Anonymous Member Arrested
April 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The charges stem from statements the hacker made April 1st on a French television program where he bragged about hacking into networks belonging to the French Army and defense contractor the Thales Group, and then claiming he also sold stolen information on Internet black markets...
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Inside The LOIC: Anonymous Is Still Using It?
April 07, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
A source has sent in some information on the DoS attacks ongoing at Sony, and I have to say I was surprised that the Anon’s are still using the LOIC. There is some interesting information in the data sent, Such as a server called: "staff.anonops.ru vlad.anonops.ru". Really? Staff???
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PS3 Running Linux Serves Up LOIC in Sony DDoS Attack
April 06, 2011 Added by:Headlines
There is more than a touch of irony to the notion that a "jailbroken" PlaySation3 running an unsanctioned Linux operating system, the very impetus for the legal action brought by Sony against Hotz and Egorenkov, would be employed in a DDoS attack against Sony domains...
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Sony Becomes Latest Operation Payback Attack Target
April 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The rogue hacktivist movement known as Anonymous has now turned its anti-copyright campaign Operation Payback against the Sony Corporation. The operation comes just one week after a similar attack was launched against the RIAA, which is seeking trillions of dollars in damages from LimeWire...
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Backstopping Backtrace: Maltego Mapping of Anonymous
March 29, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
In the cases of the three Anonymous nicknames searched here, I was able to pretty safely say that they all are technical individuals with connections to 4chan/Anonymous and as such the authorities are likely paying attention to them already through their own investigations...
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RIAA Targeted by Anonymous' Operation Payback
March 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The rogue hacktivist movement Anonymous is apparently breaking out the Low Orbit Ion Cannon again for a reprise of the Operation Payback campaign, this time setting their distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack sites on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)...
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