Items Tagged with "Anonymous"
Hacker to Release Symantec's PCAnywhere Source Code
January 16, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
YamaTough, spokesperson for the hacktivist group “The Lords of Dharmaraja”, informed Infosec Island of plans to release source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere. The release is to be made prior to the threatened exposure of the full source code for the Norton antivirus...
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First Documented Case of Cyber Espionage?
January 16, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Thanks to a hacker group in India, Infosec Island has source material that demonstrates wide spread cyber espionage on the part of the Indian Government which the hackers may publish. This is a historically significant development for those of us who track cyber espionage...
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The Next Generation Search Engine Hacking Arsenal
January 15, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
LulzSec and Anonymous use Google Hacking as a means of identifying vulnerable targets, as it provides a complete and regularly updated source of sensitive info. Developers and sysadmins who want to deploy applications on cloud infrastructures should be aware...
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AntiSec, Stratfor, and the Coming Insurrection
January 04, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It may be that you invited a stranger into your home and said stranger, as I warned at DEFCON, may not have your interests in mind. The idea of Anonymous I think has been co-opted by those who have a larger political agenda that is not your own. It may be one that will do you harm...
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Fallout from the Christmas Hack of Stratfor
January 04, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
The most painful lesson the Stratfor hack is about to demonstrate is the importance of email security. Anonymous will be recruiting volunteers to analyze the 3.3 million emails they stole that have the potential for real harm equal to the infamous WikiLeaks State Department leak...
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Top Ten Information Security Events from 2011
January 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
As 2011 was such an eventful year where security is concerned, no doubt many readers will point to numerous instances where they feel an episode was overlooked that should have been included in the top ten - but hey, you have to draw the line somewhere...
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Stratfor Hack Proves a Few Things
January 03, 2012 Added by:Jeff Bardin
How many more companies believe they can get by with half-baked security? Why are budgets being cut for information security by CIOs who just don’t get it? Why is it that organizations do business with other organizations without performing due diligence on the entity?
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Hacktivism: The End Result Versus the End Goal
January 01, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Unless your cave doesn't get the news, you've seen the barrage of and hacking over the past several months. If experience teaches us anything these folks are holding the final nail in the coffin of Internet freedom as it's driven in by the government they fear...
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EFF's 2011 in Review: Hacking Laws
December 31, 2011 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
2011 has been a landmark year for prosecutions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), with the feds pursuing aggressive, high-profile cases against members of Anonymous and LulzSec, as well as open access advocate Aaron Swartz...
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On 2011: The Year of System Failure
December 30, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
If you really want to see why so much has happened with Anonymous, WikiLeaks, Manning, and OWS you need only look toward Capitol Hill and smell the rank problem that is our governing body. We have are at an apex that has reached the lows of the Roman empire in its decline...
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Father Noel Delivers His Second Lump of "LulzXmas" to Stratfor
December 27, 2011 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
While many of us were nestled in our beds and enjoying Christmas day with family and friends, opening our gifts and downing the holiday grog, a nasty lump of coal was left once again under the tree for Stratfor by the LulzSec/Lulzboat crew...
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Five Biggest Security Events of 2011
December 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Sony went out of its way to keep customers in the dark for the majority of the outage and when it did address the issue, it presented misinformation and blamed everyone but itself..."
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Anonymous Affiliate Arrested for 2010 DDoS Attack
December 14, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"According to the indictment, Poe used a favorite software tool of the Anonymous collective—a Low Orbit Ion Cannon, which is a computer program that is used to send extremely large numbers of “packets” or requests over a network in an attempt to overwhelm a target computer..."
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The Top Cyber Criminal Busts of 2011
December 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"A torrent of attacks from groups like Anonymous, LulzSec, Goatse Security, and Antisec has made it a busy year for cybercrime investigators. While there are plenty of elusive hackers that will forever manage to outrun the law, the good guys scored some impressive arrests..."
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TeamPoison Hacks UN Development Program Servers
December 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“The UN has said that the information exposed is old data, but if you look at the YouTube video released by the hackers on Monday it shows account details and usernames as well as personal email addresses... so these people could well be compromised at work and at home..."
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Anonymous and AntiSec: Mixing Metaphors Can Lead to Trouble
December 01, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems that much of the recent OP’s like Robin Hood are just dysfunctional ideas. And the videos are getting closer to the jihadi videos that AQ has been putting out over the years. The same graphics, the same music, the same metaphor and rhetoric with a tinge of threat...
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Your Own Private Island
December 24, 2011Coming Soon! Build your own Island right here!
Make your home Infosec Island with your own private vanity URL, design options and private network of followers.
Infosec Island v2
December 24, 2011The latest version of Infosec Island is now available. There are more content options and more ways to connect and interact with your peers.
Thanks to everyone for a great year, and we're looking forward to an excellent 2012!