Items Tagged with "Anonymous"
Symantec Source Code Leak: The Real Elephant in the Room
February 08, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Everyone is all over the fact that the Symantec code had been hacked back in 2006 right? I have not seen anything about the real elephant in the room. Where has the code been lo’ these many years? Who had it? Who hacked Symantec in the first place? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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Update: Alleged Source Code Thieves Attempt to Extort Symantec
February 06, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anonymous-aligned hacker YamaTough, the spokesperson for the hacktivist group “The Lords of Dharmaraja”, falsely accused Symantec of attempting to bribe the group in order to prevent the release of source code for the company's PCanywhere product, among others...
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Anonymous Faction Hits Banks With DDoS Attacks
February 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A faction of the rogue Anonymous movement temporarily disrupted the online presence of several major banks with an onslaught of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Among the targets of the group identifying itself as Anonymous Brasil were Citibank and HSBC...
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Game Theory, Anonymous Causality, and 2012
February 05, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Over the last year we have seen an evolution within Anonymous and its various movements. The latest being the AntiSec movement, the more cohesive core of Anonymous, one that has a set group of leaders at its center, leaders with an agenda... Anarchy....
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Video: Anonymous Claims Hack of FBI Conference Call
February 03, 2012
"The conversation covers tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. Anonymous also published an email from the FBI, showing the email addresses of call participants. The FBI confirmed the intercept..."
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Senate Testimony: Cyber Security as a Strategic Concern
February 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Testimony offered before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence included threats to cybersecurity, the third item addressed, signifying that intrusions by state-sponsored China and Russia and independent actors like Anonymous and Lulzsec continue to be a concern...
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Hacking, Children, and Ethics
January 31, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Anarchists who want nothing more than to just sow chaos for their own nihilistic animus produced what I call the “Monkeys with guns effect”: Scattershot and useless hacks and pranks that further no other agenda than the Lulz or to sow chaos anywhere they strike...
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Five Tips on How to Prevent the Next Data Breach
January 28, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
You may be aware of the uber techie bad boy hackers of Anonymous/LulzSec/AntiSec/WikiLeaks/ScriptKiddies and the organized web mobs of the world. Did you know they have wreaked havoc to the degree that almost a billion records have been compromised?
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US-CERT Warns of Denial-of-Service Malware Campaign
January 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
US-CERT has received reports of attacks using malware-laden email attachments. The advisory comes one week after multiple DDoS attacks were launched against entertainment industry and US government websites by Anonymous supporters in an operation dubbed OpMegaupload...
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Sophos Releases Security Threat Report 2012
January 26, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Sophos unveiled its latest Security Threat Report 2012, a detailed assessment of the threat landscape—from hacktivism and online threats to mobile malware, cloud computing and social network security, as well as IT security trends for this coming year...
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Cyberwar Comes to a Mall in Fresno? Not so Much...
January 24, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
A Pastebin dump alleged to be from Anonymous has forty-nine IP addresses with SCADA systems on them. Furthermore, those systems were claimed to not have any authentication on them whatsoever. I checked the IP’s and I have to say “meh” on this little dump by the skiddies...
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Cyber Defense Weekly: Anonymous Attacks, Dutch Cyber Strategy
January 24, 2012 Added by:Cyber Defense Weekly
Each attacker only has so much time and energy. It's like trying to get a crowd at a stadium to do the wave. As soon as the pitcher winds up on the mound the wave peters out. What should you do if you are the target of an Anonymous DDoS attack? Just wait, they will go away...
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Aaron Barr Terminated for Obsession with Anonymous
January 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"When I hired Aaron about eight months ago, it was under the perception that we were going to be able to help the NSA with some things relating to national security, not with Anonymous and social groups," John Sayres, the company's founder said...
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The Shifting Digital Sands of Online Jihad
January 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems that Anonymous has potentially sparked these guys to think like them and perhaps even use their tactics instead of continuing just to shake their fingers at us as they yell. This would be an interesting paradigm change in the global Salafi movement as well as the tactics of AQ...
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How to Avoid Being Miscast in a SOPA Opera
January 20, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
LOIC was originally written in C#, but a later variant was created in Javascript which permits it to be deployed from any internet connected device. LOIC and its JS variant are simple toys, but in the hands of enough people they can create a formidable DDOS attack on a site...
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A Hacker Handbook: Who Are the Bad Guys?
January 19, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
When the Internet was a baby, hackers were fairly homogeneous. Some were scamming businesses for personal gain, but most were simple graffiti artists – breaking into websites to splash some MS Paint. It was a way to rebel and earn credibility within the computer community...