Blog Posts Tagged with "Anonymous"
Sabu Incited State-sponsored Attack for US Government
September 02, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Former LulzSec leader Sabu (Hector Xavier Monsegur) accused by the hacker Jeremy Hammond to have incited state-sponsored attack for the U.S. Government.
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Anonymous vs Wikileaks...you can condemn a man but not wipe out an ideology
October 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Hacktivism is considered one of the main cyber threats and its operations have created serious problems to private businesses and governments, for this reason security expert all over the world are trying to deeply analyze the different movements of dissent and their mutual relationships...
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LulzSec Member Arrested for Sony Pictures Hack
September 05, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Rivera allegedly used a proxy server in an attempt to mask or hide his Internet protocol (IP) address and obtained confidential information from Sony Pictures’ computer systems using an SQL injection attack against its website...
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Hackers Grabbed Twelve Million Apple IDs from FBI
September 05, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Is the information legit? If so, why would an FBI agent have a list of twelve million Apple ID’s which in some cases can be used to access information just as a password would? And how did the hacker group exploit this particular agent’s laptop and recover information from it?
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Anonymous: A Hot Autumn is Coming...
September 04, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We can continue to the bitter end, but the lesson we must learn is that Anonymous has now become a part of our daily life, an element with which every security expert will have to face sooner or later. Continuing to ignore the phenomenon of hacktivism is very dangerous...
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Chimps With Guns and the Bloggers Who Give Them Ammo
August 02, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
One must know the technology and the problems with it before using it cognizantly. This unfortunately is not the case in what is being advocated by Quinn Norton on Wired with regard to Cryptocat. Specifically where she makes declamations about overthrowing governments with things like untested crypto schemes...
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On Trolling and Obsessions...
July 31, 2012 Added by:ʞɔopuooq ʇuıɐs
I have done my best to ignore rantings, trying not to feed the trolls, but Emick recently upped her campaign against me and created a blog post berating my methods. One of my valued supporters, @render64, has read Emick's blog and kindly used intelligent analysis in order to expose what’s really going on here...
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Updates: Rumors of Anonymous Hacking th3j35t3r's Accounts Overblown
July 11, 2012 Added by:ʞɔopuooq ʇuıɐs
About the twitter ‘takeover’. I have to say that was clever. Even though my account wasn’t actually breached per se. The folks behind this latest attempt found an auto-RSS/Email to tweet script that uses the Twitter API and worked out a way to post to my account without actually having any physical access. Kudos...
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On th3j35t3r's Project Looking Glass
July 05, 2012 Added by:ʞɔopuooq ʇuıɐs
There haven’t been a lot of ‘TANGO DOWNS’ over the last few months. I decided that I should concentrate on targeted intelligence gathering. I needed a way to get the real world identity of ‘the marks’ – be it Anons, Jihadists or forum admins. Over the last few months I have been running ‘Project Looking Glass’...
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Exploring Hacktivism and the Deep Web
July 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
When we think of hacktivism, immediately we connect it to anonymity. In fact, those who wish to express their dissent through hacktivism most often prefer the use of anonymity. It's clear that the ultimate context in which these people can freely exchange ideas and information is through the Deep Web...
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OpJapan: Anonymous vs. Japan and its War on Piracy
June 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
"Anonymous strongly believes that the implementation of this law will... solve nothing. To the government of Japan and the Recording Industry Association of Japan, you can now expect us the same way we have come to expect you in violating our basic rights to privacy and to an open internet..."
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Sabu: The Anonymous Zeitgeist?
June 27, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
If Sabu was so loved by anonymous and approved of, then they have completely abdicated their core beliefs in operations and set themselves up for the fall that came with Sabu’s arrest and subsequent rolling over on everyone in the “movement” that have spawned all of the arrests we are now seeing come to trial...
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LulzSec Hacker Indicted for Conspiracy to Conduct Cyber Attacks
June 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The indictment alleges that Ryan Cleary controlled a large botnet of potentially hundreds of thousands of units to conduct DDoS attacks and would rent out his botnet for certain time periods in exchange for money from individuals interested in conducting DDoS attacks targeting specific victims...
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Philippine - China Cyber War: Silic Leader Doxed and Frustrated
June 03, 2012 Added by:Jay Turla
A few weeks ago, busabos from the Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines defaced two government websites from China and posted the pictures and details of Wang Lei a.k.a y0c0 smart, the leader of the Silic Group Hacker Army and the admin of blackbap.com which is the forum site of Silic Group Hacker Army...
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Romanian Authorities Arrest Suspected Anonymous Members
May 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
When asked about the threat of arrest, Balaneasa said: "Romanian authorities (most of them) are just too stupid. I wonder what else they are taking seriously, besides hacking... Afraid? NEVER. We will fight to the end. And to be honest, all they will 'catch' may be clips of themselves sucking their own finger..."
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FBI Warns Companies of Anonymous DDoS Attacks
May 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The Cyber Division of the FBI warned several large corporations of the potential for DDoS and data exfiltration attacks scheduled for today, May 25. The attacks are being coordinated by the rogue movement Anonymous in an an exercise termed "Operation NewSon"...
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