Www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-sda-cyber-security.pdf?cid=WBB048. Anonymous And The War Over The Internet. This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.
Late in the afternoon of Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Justice website vanished from the Internet. Anyone attempting to visit it to report a crime or submit a complaint received a message saying the site was unable to load. More websites disappeared in rapid succession. The Recording Industry Association of America. Anonymous And The War Over The Internet (Part II) This is the second part of a two-part series on Anonymous, the amorphous Internet group that has emerged as a force in global affairs.
In the first part, we track Anonymous' transition from pranks to politics. In this installment, we learn about its war on the government. AnonOps Communications. Anonymous' Latest Release Includes Private Info About Sexual Assault Victims and Guantanamo Lawyers. Spiderman's fictional uncle Ben said one of the wisest things a comic book character ever has: With great power comes great responsibility.
Whether we like it or not, Anonymous has power as a collective, and skills to back that power up. If they want to be seen as a force for good as they seem to intend to, they automatically have a responsibility to uphold that. And yet, how exactly does one address responsibility in a collective formed by people who have their kind of free-form organization? #ANTISEC Fuck FBI Friday VI: FBI conversation leaked & Boston Police Department Owned. A #LulzFinancial Release mysql> select Accoun. Mossad Message for Anonymous. Hacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands. McCully's email account hacked - Technology. The private emails of Foreign Minister Murray McCully have reportedly been hacked and sensitive information potentially revealed.
International hackers cooperative Anonymous is said to have hacked the National MP's Telecom Xtra email account in April last year, the Dominion Post reported. There are concerns Cabinet information and cables from foreign posts may have been obtained by the organisation, as Mr McCully had his official emails forwarded to his personal account. However he told the Dominion Post, Cabinet papers and cable traffic were not sent to the account. TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group. NZ websites under DoS. Last updated 13:37 26/01/2012 New Zealand government websites may be knocked offline for days or weeks or defaced by overseas hackers if Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom is extradited to the United States, a company specialising in the security of information technology systems has warned.
Activists associated with hacking group Anonymous vented their outrage at Dotcom's arrest last week by launching "denial-of-service" attacks that temporarily blocked access to the websites of the US' FBI, Justice Department and recording label Universal Music Group. Aura Information Security managing director Andy Prow believed New Zealand government sites might now be in their sights and warned some might be easy targets because of their relatively small size.
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Department of Justice on Tuesday confirmed the arrests of 16 individuals for alleged cyberattacks by FBI agents, including 14 on charges related to their alleged involvement in an attack on PayPal's website by the loosely affiliated prankster and hacktivist group Anonymous. The DOJ said more than 35 search warrants were executed in the U.S. and that five additional arrests were made in Europe as part of a global investigation of "coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations.
" The 14 alleged members of Anonymous were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio. The individuals were arrested on charges contained in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in a California federal court in San Jose. The specific attacks on PayPal were dubbed "Operation Avenge Assange" within Anonymous circles, a reference to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to the San Jose indictment. Teaser 2 Stratfor Calls Anon and Wikileaks hippie arseholes. First real Stratfor mail from AntiSec.
Anonymous Hacks Back at Cybercrime Investigators. The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement.
Antisec anons, who specialize in hacks that show the net's vulnerabilities, gained access to the Gmail/Google account of one "Fred Baclagan. " Baclagan appears to be San Diego-based Alfredo Baclagan, a retired supervisor of the multi-agency Computer and Technology Crime Hightech Response Team. "CATCH" specializes in cybercrime investigation in the San Diego, Imperial Valley, and Riverside counties of southern California. They released a purported 38,000 emails from two accounts of Baclagan's as a 581 MB torrent. The video announcement opens with the computer voice intoning "Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting Fuck FBI Friday release. " For instance, the e-mails detail how various companies have responded to law enforcement requests, as in this excerpt from 2009: LOIC is a point-and-click piece of software that bombards a targeted website with useless traffic.
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