Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hackers

Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hacker Security analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after Anonymous hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to its clients. Hacking collective...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: tor-0.2.2.35-1601.fc16

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

Finnish ISP is blocking the Pirate Bay, Anonymous stand for Freedom of Expression !

Finnish ISP is blocking the Pirate Bay, Anonymous stand for Freedom of Expression ! Anonymous has urged its followers to target Finnish anti-piracy body the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre CIAPC after it persuaded the Helsinki District Court to force one of the country's biggest ISPs...

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials Anonymous Hackers expose email addresses of 221 British military staff with encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and 242 Nato advisers. "Civil servants...

Sony Pictures Website, Facebook Page Defaced

A twitter user operating under the handle @s3rverexe s3rver.exe claims to have hacked into and defaced the website and Facebook page of Sony Pictures. S3rver.exe posted video evidence of the hack on Youtube and allegedly posted comments as the admin on Sony Pictures’ Facebook page. Both the...

Sony Pictures Facebook Page & Website Hacked again !

Sony Pictures Facebook Page & Website Hacked again ! The hacking group Anonymous has confirmed that they have once again hacked Sony Pictures, gaining access to their Facebook account and website. Anonymous did threaten Sony for supporting the controversial SOPA bill and now it seems that the...

Pastebin Downed By Second DDoS Attack This Week

For the second time this week, Pastebin.com on Thursday found itself hit by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The site was previously taken offline for a portion of the day on Tuesday, though no motives or culprits for that attack have been named yet. A post to the service’s Twitter...

Report: Anonymous Targets Neo-Nazis

The Anonymous Internet collective’s campaign against groups with whom they disagree surged into 2012 with “Operation Blitzkrieg,” which is targeting Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. Their latest effort includes a Wikileaks-style Website, Nazi-leaks.net, to uncover and expose the identities of...

Anonymous Leaks Info Following California Police Union Website Hack

The website for California’s Statewide Law Enforcement Association CSLEA union remained offline Tuesday following the announcement of a hack by well-known hacktivist group Anonymous over the holiday weekend. In part of what the group has deemed “pr0j3ct m4hy3m,” project mayhem Anonymous released...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the "Year of the Hack" or "Epic Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for...

Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses

Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses Company that was attacked earlier this week by Anonymous Hackers, again yesterday by leaking 75,000 names, credit cards, addresses and passwords of every customer of STRATFOR's and about 860,000 usernames, emails and passwords for anyone that has...

Kuwait Government will suspend Twitter accounts of Anonymous Users

Kuwait Government will suspend Twitter accounts of Anonymous Users In Kuwait, the Ministry of Interior is in the process of enforcing a rule of their own on Twitter which prevents Kuwaiti users from using anonymous accounts. The ministry said in a press statement that such measure comes in order ...

Specialforces.com Says Hack Of Customer Data Is Six Months Old

Just days after a successful attack on the security think tank Stratfor, Anonymous, the anarchic hacking collective, is getting headlines again for an attack on Specialforces.com, a Web site used by members of the armed forces law enforcement officers and gun enthusiasts. However, an employee...

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked Sensitive information about the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and other New Zealand agencies can be the next target after US host was hacked. US intelligence firm Stratfor had its website hacked by activist group Anonymou...

2011: Wait, What?

The security industry can be a giant repetitive, follow-the-loser echo chamber of unoriginal thoughts, familiar flaws and copycat theories. But if ever there was a year in which folks could stand back and look at what’s gone on and say, what in the hell just happened, 2011 was it. So rather than...

Anonymous Hacks Security Think Tank STRATFOR

Hackers with Anonymous have struck a well-known security and intelligence think tank based in Texas and made off with some 200 GB of credit card data and other information. Members of the loosely-affiliated collective announced the attack on STRATFOR on Twitter. Among the items reportedly pilfere...

ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released

ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released ANONdroid is a JonDonym proxy client for Android smartphones. This nice piece of software is under ongoing development by the AN.ON project of the university Dresden. Project leader is Dr. Stefan Köpsell. ANONdroid uses the core...

Stratfor hacked by Anonymous Hackers for #AntiSec

Stratfor hacked by Anonymous Hackers for AntiSec Stratfor who provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs just now has been defaced by Anonymous Group of Hackers. Mirror of Hack is available here. Lulzsec Leader, SABU tweeted that "Over 90,000...

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group A new financial research group, Anonymous Analytics has released a report accusing Chinese firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture of "11 years of deceit and corporate fraud". The company is one of China's largest fruit and vegetable suppliers. A faction within...

What will 2012 bring? We can't know for sure

Stuxnet and the specter of sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks were still dominating the news a year ago, as 2010 ended and we welcomed the New Year. Soon enough, however, there would be a new phenomenon to contend with: hacktivists. As the attack on HBGary Federal and Sony showed, faceless...