Access Restricted Over the past year or so we have seen how powerful a couple of tweets and a pastebin statement can be. More so over the pasty few months there has been a lot of fake and stupid operations being brewed up by trolls, trouble makers or just plain simple dumbass’s. One of the most recent ones is once again asking people to download the well known stupid, noneffective tool called LOIC, this is the same tool that has seen so many people arrested and facing charges for taking part in previous attacks. This stupid operations have been inciting outrageous actions towards the targets that have been in line from street protesters, from this attacks or even the word of them people are making it alot harder for them who are making the effort and standing ground at there local protest or even travelling great distances to join others to stand ground. /end rant
Digital Forensics Magazine | supporting the professional computer security industry Anonymous: We are legion. AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly. From Arabic to Mandarin Chinese, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in native tongue. Yes, they saw the uprising in Egypt coming; they just didn't know exactly when revolution might hit, said the center's director, Doug Naquin. The center already had "predicted that social media in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime," he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at the center. Since tweets can't necessarily be pegged to a geographic location, the analysts broke down reaction by languages.
Darknet Interpol website down after announcing arrests of 25 suspected Anonymous in Europe and Latin America To top off the recent Anonymous news, it looks like members of the hacktivist group have been snared in a trap laid by Interpol. According to the International Criminal Police Organization, 25 alleged members of Anonymous have been rounded up from Europe and Latin America. In a release from Interpol, the suspects’ ages were found to range from 17 to 40. The release also says that the arrests of the alleged anons took place in the countries of Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Spain by national law enforcement. Interpol, headquartered in Lyon, France, does not make its own arrests. Apparently, the ongoing investigation began mid-February and led to the seizure of 250 items of IT equipment as well as a number of mobile phones. An AP report confirmed some of Interpol’s numbers. The Interpol website has gone down shortly after the announcement, and is currently still down — seemingly in response to Interpol’s triumphant press release. This article was originally posted on Digital Trends
Sticky Paste Hugh Grant Chairman & CEO of Monsanto Principal Occupation: Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Monsanto. Chairman of the Board of Monsanto Company since October 2003; President and Chief Executive Officer of Monsanto Company since May 2003; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Monsanto Company, 2000-2003; Co-President, Agricultural Sector, old Monsanto Company, 1998-2000. Director: PPG Industries, Inc. Base salary of $1,391,356 Cash bonus of $1,070,382 Stocks granted of $1,875,766 Options granted of $5,902,039 Other compensation of $564,214 Total compensation of $10,803,757 Date of Birth 1958 Business Positions Monsanto agricultural company Director Chairman President PPG Industries Manufacturer of glass, fiberglass, paint & coating, and fine... Director (past) Other Positions & Memberships Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Closely tied to Monsanto Trustee Donation/Grant Recipients Monsanto Citizenship Fund 5 contributions ⋅ $17700 ('02→'09) Lists
Anonymously changing the world - Opinions - Lion's Roar - Southeastern Louisiana University George Milton, played by Michael Pettey (left), and Lennie Small, played by Mat Leonard (right), talk about their plan to own their own parcel of land one day. The National Players performed only one night in Hammond before moving up the east coast. They will be returning to perform in New Orleans on April 10. Ryne Berthelot Have you tried protesting lately? Maybe not, but we are all familiar with the protestors associated with the Occupy movement. Perhaps best known by their moniker "Anonymous," these protestors have been classified a number of ways ranging from activists to nerds to cyber-terrorists. What is Anonymous? "Anonymous" is a loosely connected group of Internet hackers around the world that originated on the image board www.4chan.org in 2003. Okay... "Anonymous" participates in a form of protesting known as "hacktivism," a term that refers to using computers and the Internet to meet some sort of political end. And I should care because...? What does it all mean?
Anonymous Hacks Wal-Mart, CapitalOne, Finland, El Salvador - Security - Attacks/breaches Releases troves of stolen data, some of unknown origin, and issues call for mass disruptions of the Iowa caucuses. (click image for larger view) Slideshow: 10 Massive Security Breaches It's been a busy few days for the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous. On Saturday, Anonymous released data it had stolen after hacking the websites of CapitalOne and Wal-Mart. According to Anonymous, its data dump includes information on everyone from Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg to Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant and embattled ex-Harvard president and former Obama financial advisor Lawrence Summers. Also on Saturday, the group released a YouTube video calling for people to occupy "campaign offices of presidential headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa," come December, in a bid to disrupt the Iowa caucuses in January. Meanwhile, on Monday, officials in El Salvador disclosed that Anonymous had launched a cyber attack against government websites there, two weeks ago. More Insights
Bright, and Clear: The Future of Free Speech - Anonymous: We are legion. Bright, and Clear: The Future of Free Speech A rallying cry on the occassion of the Web’s first mass blackout As we watch the web go dark today in protest against the SOPA/PIPA censorship bills, let’s take a moment and reflect on why this fight is so important. We may have learned that free speech is what makes America great, or instinctively resist attempts at silencing our voices. But these are abstract principles, divorced from the real world and our daily lives. Free speech is the foundation of a free society. We believe a healthy society doesn’t allow its artists, musicians and other creators to starve. It’s time we make a stand for a better world - not merely take rearguard actions to preserve a status quo that is _already_ failing us. * We call on national legislatures to not only reject ACTA efforts to globalize the American intellectual property regime, but to abolish the WIPO. * No more Jammie Thomases. * No more Dajaz1’s. * No more Megauploads. —Anonymous
Computer virus hits NZ ambulances A computer virus disabled the automated response system of St John communication centres across the country this week. Ambulance communications operations manager Alan Goudge said systems were back up and running yesterday morning after being attacked by the virus on Wednesday night. The incident forced staff to allocate ambulances manually but it is still unknown if any emergency call-outs were affected. “Anti-virus software protected the systems but as a result of the virus it impacted on some of the systems services, mainly those related to paging and radio. Mr Goudge said the source of the virus was still being investigated. A Hamilton IT expert, who did not wish to be named, said he was surprised by the outage in an emergency call centre and said he expected a robust system to be heavily protected by computer security systems. A memory stick was responsible for introducing the Conficker virus to Waikato District Health Board computers in December 2009.