Hackers elect cartoon character to Washington DC school board thanks to electronic voting. Madison Ruppert, Contributing WriterActivist Post If you didn’t think there could be more reasons to dump the wholly unreliable and laughably insecure electronic voting machines, get ready to be dumbfounded. “Bender Bending Rodriguez” better known as simply Bender, from the television series Futurama, was elected to the 2010 school board in Washington DC. That’s right; a cartoon character was written in and won by a landslide, thanks to the hard work of hackers from the University of Michigan.
The most astounding part of the whole story is that it only took them a few hours to accomplish the feat. The hacking was not carried out by so-called “black hat” hackers or individuals operating under the ambiguous label of Anonymous (although it seems like it would be given the popularity of Futurama), this was actually sanctioned by the Washington DC school board itself. In the past, I myself have been a victim of such attacks which can be quite devastating when done maliciously. The Future of Hacking Sounds Pretty Ridiculous.
Since the downfall of LulzSec, hackers have been busy coming up with wild ideas to outdo their many attention-grabbing stunts from 2011. Then, we wrote about the difference between hacks that simply snatch headlines and hacks that actually affected positive change. But this year, some of the ideas for new modes of disruption are approaching downright insanity -- if not fear-mongering and national security-threatening -- and we doubt most hacking veterans would approve of the approach. Let's start with the quasi-possible. Tuesday morning, The Wall Street Journal offered up details of a super secret meeting of the National Security Agency. "Gen. Keith Alexander, the director, provided his assessment in meetings at the White House and in other private sessions, according to people familiar with the gatherings," explained The Journal's Siobhan Gorman.
We're guessing the blackout idea has more to do with frustration for recognition than anything else. Hackers on the moon?
ManTech Buy HBGary. THK The HackerZ NewZ. #FFF. NASDAQ : Hacked D)( @ IT Again #Anonymous ACTA & FTC HACKED!!! #FFF. ASE & Huffington Post. GSM Base_Station. Pen_Test_OP_SYS #BuildWith. IPV6 DDos. Bot_Net Back From The D34d_Z0n3. NASA Hacker Arrested. The_Ethical_Hacker (Pen_Tester) DNSChanger. Alabama Redaction. YamaTough. #Cyberforce FBI & Scotland Yard #DANGER #Co_OPT. Super_Bowl_GIANTZ. Anonymous (youranonnews) on Pinterest. NASA/Pentagon Hacker Vanned. Gary McKinnanon. The Dawn of Social Lobbying. Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks.
Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto; you can follow him on twitter @semil The word “lobbyist” surely doesn’t have the best connotation in the world. Depending on your reading of the definition, it generally signifies an attempt to influence government decisions, traditionally by targeting legislators or regulators.
What isn’t often taken into consideration, however, is that while there are lobbyists in dark suits roaming the halls of Congress funded by entities such as big oil and pharmaceutical companies, “lobbying” is also conducted by nonprofit groups funded by different kinds of special interests. Now, a new form of “lobbying” has emerged, but instead corporate checks or individuals donations, the currency has shifted from cash to social connections, where financial power will be trumped by network power: “social lobbying.” Ashton Kutcher warns hacker, 'I'm coming for you' By NewsCore January 16, 2012 LOS ANGELES -- Ashton Kutcher has hit out at a hacker who posted fake messages from his Twitter account and warned the imposter, "I'm coming for you my friend.
" The internet was sent into a flurry Sunday after a tweet sent from the actor's account appeared to confirm to his nine million followers he was dating director Lorene Scafaria. According to Radar Online, the tweet said, "First official sleepover with my girl @lorenescafaria so maybe breakfast with everyone next time! (@ Lorene's House). " The message came with a Foursquare link pointing out Scafaria's house on a map. The fake tweets were removed a few hours later and Kutcher wrote, "So apparently someone thinks they are clever hacking my account.
He added, "Ok mr hacker, you only made one mistake. Those tweets were apparently removed early Monday by the "Two and a Half Men" star, but he kept one post that read, "I'm coming for you my friend...
The Right To Tw33t... #Anonymous #Antisec #CoDeX. Indicted Man Asks Judge To Lift Twitter Ban. JANUARY 13--An alleged “Anonymous” member under indictment for participating in an online attack against PayPal wants a federal judge to allow him to use Twitter, arguing that he is unfairly being prohibited from participating in discussions of the 2012 election cycle, including discourse initiated by President Barack Obama, who has recently vowed to personally post tweets to the social networking site. In a motion filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, Vincent Kershaw argues that bail conditions barring his use of the Internet restrict his “very right to engage in political discourse in this modern era.” Pictured in the above mug shot, Kershaw contends that since his criminal case will “likely proceed throughout the entirety of the 2012 election cycle including the ongoing presidential campaign,” the Twitter ban prohibits him from “even perusing such critical communications from our own President or engaging in the Twitter Town Halls in any manner.”
Stratfor Hacked & EMail Bombed. The 5th & The Password For You're Encrypted Drive Please & Incri. PasteBin DDosed. AnonySony. M4yh3m. Anonymous- To Illuminati. Uni_Hacked. STRATFOR Hacked. STRATFOR Hacked Update 7 27 February 2012. Anonymous allegedly releases "5 million" (not substantiated) Stratfor emails through WikiLeaks: John Young @Cryptomeorg @AnonymousIRC @wikileaks Great show! Will the full raw emails be released as promised by Anonymous to legitimate media-ized spoon-feeding?
Summary of releases of STRATFOR documents, subscribers' firm names and personal information (including addresses, telephone numbers, credit card numbers and passwords), latest release at top: STRATFOR Hacked Update 6 30 December 2011. 29 December 2011. Lulzxmas Dumps 860,000 STRATFOR Accounts: 28 December 2011. Prepping for the Stratfor 5M Email Release 27 December 2011. [Now removed] These are 28517 of 53281 (54%) passwords from the list of STRATFOR customer accounts cracked. 26 December 2011. 26 December 2011. Related:
Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? As I watch the legislative abominations named SOPA, PIPA, and NDAA follow the lead of the DMCA and the Patriot Act in the United States, I realize that the worst possible scenario for civil liberties appears to actually be materializing. The internal talk within the Swedish Pirate Party has long been that it’s our job to prevent Europe from descending into totalitarian fascism.
The United States is lost; it is beyond help and repair and will descend. Our job is to prevent Europe from happily following suit, but instead break off the leash in time. This was apparent five years ago, and is screamingly obvious today. This article took me well over 24 hours to write, after a week of procrastination. There is a good meme on this topic, quoted by many. As this is a global blog, I need and want to explain the American wordplay here. Soap box: A box you stand on in the street trying to explain your views to the public. We are currently down to the third box, and it is starting to fail.
Anonymous issues statement regarding #NDAA and #OpBlackout. #SOPA 130. Hacker_SAT. Swiss data hacked in 'Anonymous' attack. AT&T Hacked. Free DNSCrypt tool enhances Mac Web security | MacFixIt. When you connect to a Web site on the Internet, your computer uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to convert URLs like "www.macfixit.com" to the IP address for the server where that Web site resides.
This system is a hierarchical network of computers throughout the world that distributes a database of domains and subdomains, allowing the system to resolve the components of the URL ("com," "macfixit," and "www") to a specific IP address out of millions of publicly available ones. This system is used for Web browsing, but also for numerous other Internet communication services including e-mail, instant messaging, syncing, and application registration technologies.
Some DNS service providers like Google and OpenDNS have provided relatively secure public DNS offerings that claim to increase both the performance of name resolution and offer better security over DNS servers from Internet providers that are not as well-maintained. Hackers Take Down Portuguese Parliament Website.
Anonymous Spokesman Flees Over Safety Concerns. Though the jury's still out on the veracity of Anonymous' showdown with south-of-the-border bullies, Barrett Brown has emerged as the face of the hacktivist collective, which last week bit off possibly more than it could chew when it threatened the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. PHOTOS: Hacker's Playbook: Common Tactics Last week we told you how Anonymous drew a line-in-the-sand ultimatum, threatening to go public with the identities of local police, journalists, taxi drivers and other allies who conspire with Los Zetas if the cartel didn't release a kidnapped Anonymous member. Though Anonymous apparently called off their Operation Cartel (#OpCartel) after Los Zetas allegedly returned the kidnapped victim, Brown has decided to flee his Dallas home over concerns for his security.
On Nov. 8, he tweeted, "I've got ex-military people releasing info on me and family. BLOG: Anonymous Hackers Vs. [Via Gawker] Credit: Andrew Hetherington/Getty Images. Watch Google Describe How It Can Exploit Your Name. Hack of Texas police emails, website reveal offensive communications between officials. The Texas Police Chiefs' website had a bit of a security breach on Thursday. The hackers collective known as Anonymous claims it broke into the email of dozens of law enforcement agencies - and released racist and offensive correspondence between cops.
London's Daily Mail reported that in one email to a police official in Texas, an officer commented that someone who started a car chase got "what she deserved. " "I'll bet she was fat and black too," the email added. The email then continued "Same with that pervert that got shot by the county. There is also an email chain in one police department regarding "Muslim inbreeding," gizmodo.com reported. The group also hacked the website of the Texas Police Chiefs, and posted the email addresses that had been hacked.
In a statement on the website, the Daily Mail reported, the hackers wrote: "Having a slow day behind the desk, filing papers, staring at your colleague's fine posterior? " "What have you been up to since our last visit? October 6, 2011 — RT News line. School bus crash in Peru kills at least 11 A minibus carrying children, their parents, and teachers from a school trip to a zoo in the Peruvian capital, Lima, has plunged into a 120-meter ravine on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Eleven people have reportedly been killed, while several injured passengers have been taken to hospital in Lima. The accident happened in Matucana, some 80 kilometres east of the capital. According to rescue workers, the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel. Syrian troops shell Lebanese farm killing one civilian Several Syrian military vehicles have crossed the border with Lebanon and opened fire on local farms in the Bekaa Valley region, causing significant damage to buildings and killing at least one civilian, according to Lebanese security officials.
Chile police use tear gas, water cannons on student demonstrators Obama accuses Pakistan of connection with Afghan insurgents Thousands stuck in Cairo airport due to staff protest S. Broadcast Yourself. Dox for William Adams for being a abuse corrupt piece of shit human being. In. Request: Official ANON Notification of Confirmed OWS Co-Opt Efforts. Hackers link MP's aide to neo-Nazi site in member list leak. High performance access to file storage The parliamentary aide to a right-wing Finnish MP has offered to resign after the Anonymous hacking collective published what it said was a list of applications to join a local neo-Nazi party. Hacktivists broke into the website of Kansallinen Vastarinta, the magazine of the Suomen Vastarintaliike (Finnish Resistance Movement), before extracting and publishing what it said was the party's membership application database at the end of last month.
The local cell of Anonymous warned of future internet-based attacks on its websites and forums unless Suomen Vastarintaliike (Finnish Resistance Movement) is disbanded. Among the list that allegedly contained the names of hundreds of would-be members of the neo-Nazi group was Ulla Pyysalo, aide to Finnish MP Juho Eerola of the True Finns. The Finnish wing of Anonymous has been busy of late. Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks, End ‘Season of Darkness’ Mexican hacker group drops reprisal as member freed. Persons claiming to be with the Mexican arm of "hacktivist" group Anonymous said Friday they were scrapping plans to expose information about the Zetas drug cartel after a kidnap victim was released. Twitter messages from the accounts @anonhispano and @IberoAnon said the Anonymous activist kidnapped in the eastern city of Veracruz was freed ahead of a November 5 deadline set by Anonymous to divulge Zetas links to politicians and others working with the crime gang.
Experts said there was no way to verify the authenticity of the announcement, but that these accounts had in the past correctly predicted cyber attacks on Mexican government websites. The purported Anonymous members also said in a statement to the "anonopsibero" blog that they had suspended "Operation Cartel" due to Zetas threats to innocent people. There was no comment from Mexican authorities, who previously indicated they could not verify the abduction. OpCartel Proceeds. Cashing in as the face of Anonymous: Hacking group spokesman lands a six figure book deal. By Hannah Roberts Updated: 11:40 GMT, 5 November 2011 But Barrett Brown has been more visible than ever this week, as he promoted his new book on the shadowy cooperative's activities and motivations. Brown appears to have cashed in on his connection to the controversial alliance of hacktivists- the former heroin addict from Dallas claims to have been paid a six figure sum for his forthcoming book.
Spokesman: Barrett Brown, the 'Face' of Anonymous, has had a tiring week, promoting his forthcoming book for which he has signed a six figure deal Brown and fellow Anonymous associate, Gregg Housh have chosen to release the joint effort, provisionally titled: Anonymous: Tales From Inside The Accidental Cyberwar, with Amazon. The choice of publisher may jar with fellow activists, who will remember that Anonymous attacked Amazon only last year, after the giant bookseller booted Wikileaks off its servers. The assault, part of 'Operation Payback,' failed. Seemingly its now all water under the bridge. Guy Fawkes Cut O.U.T. Mask. Sony hack: Can Sony's brand recover from massive breach? - May. 10. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's been a nightmarish three weeks for Sony, as it struggles to recover from massive hack attacks on three separate gaming systems it runs. Not only are the PlayStation, Qriocity and Sony online gaming networks still offline, but tens of millions of credit card numbers may have been stolen.
Gamers are irate as Sony (SNE) works to get its systems back online -- and their patience is running out, according to Brian Crecente, editor of gaming blog Kotaku. "The theme that's bubbling up among our commenters is that they'll be much happier if things are solved today rather than tomorrow," Crecente says. But Sony's timetable for a fix has grown longer in the weeks since the breaches first came to light. What's been hacked: Sony disclosed the first hack on April 22, saying that an "external intrusion" on its systems between April 17 and 19 affected its PlayStation Network and its media streaming service Qriocity.
On May 2, things got even worse. Can Sony recover? Anonymous vs. Zetas Amid Mexico's Cartel Violence. Gmail phishing attack wasn't rocket science - Jun. 3. Anonymous Book to Amazon: Hacktivist Authors Cozy Up to the Fire.