Items Tagged with "Anonymous"


69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

DDoS Attacks Against Government and Entertainment Websites Escalate

January 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines

Multiple websites appear to be under DDoS attack, including the DoJ's http://justice.gov, the Recording Industry Association of America's http://riaa.com, and music publisher Universal Music's http://universalmusic.com...

Comments  (0)

6d1c762d9c16395a7e258d098091ee00

Cyber Defense Weekly: Symantec, Stratfor and SOPA

January 16, 2012 Added by:Cyber Defense Weekly

Internet companies are contemplating shutting down their sites in a day of protest against the egregious SOPA; Japan has contracted with Fujitsu to produce anti-malware malware; Symantec's source code has been stolen by a group of Indian hackers associated with Anonymous...

Comments  (0)

6d117b57d55f63febe392e40a478011f

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...

Comments  (7)

924ce315203c17e05d9e04b59648a942

First Documented Case of Cyber Espionage?

January 15, 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...

Comments  (12)

9a824a3f55b26adad5431f6715dbec2e

The Next Generation Search Engine Hacking Arsenal

January 14, 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...

Comments  (0)

Baed7cd90281d85b6943e9bf3cfc9fe0

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...

Comments  (0)

924ce315203c17e05d9e04b59648a942

Fallout from the Christmas Hack of Stratfor

January 03, 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...

Comments  (0)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

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...

Comments  (0)

0ff0a77035f9569943049ed3e980bb0d

Stratfor Hack Proves a Few Things

January 03, 2012 Added by:

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?

Comments  (0)

0a8cae998f9c51e3b3c0ccbaddf521aa

Hacktivism: The End Result Versus the End Goal

December 31, 2011 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...

Comments  (0)

7ddc1f3000a13e4dfec28074e9e7b658

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...

Comments  (0)

Baed7cd90281d85b6943e9bf3cfc9fe0

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...

Comments  (2)

Ba829a6cb97f554ffb0272cd3d6c18a7

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...

Comments  (0)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

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..."

Comments  (0)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

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..."

Comments  (0)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

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..."

Comments  (0)

Page « < 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 > »