Teens, Lulz and Morality: Making Sense of Anonymous

The UK’s Metropolitan Police swooped down on the remote, weather beaten Shetland Islands last week to arrrest what the authorities claim is a top ranking member of the international hacker collective Anonymous, which has been terrorizing governments and high profile corporations for most of the...

Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program

Social networking giant Facebook has finally boarded the bug bounty bandwagon. The company announced late last week they’ll award $500 for each bug to those who share information about flaws that could compromise the site’s privacy. The news confirms rumors that began to bubble at a Hack in the B...

#RefRef - Denial of Service ( DDoS ) Tool Developed by Anonymous

RefRef - Denial of Service DDoS Tool Developed by Anonymous Anonymous is developing a new DDoS tool which is said to exploit SQL vulnerabilities to support the group's future campaigns. So far, what they have is something that is platform neutral, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within...

#RefRef - Denial of Service ( DDoS ) Tool Developed by Anonymous

RefRef - Denial of Service DDoS Tool Developed by Anonymous Anonymous is developing a new DDoS tool which is said to exploit SQL vulnerabilities to support the group's future campaigns. So far, what they have is something that is platform neutral, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

How Did One Of The World's Poorer Countries Become its Top Source of Online Attacks?

What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia? Try Myanmar. The southeast Asian country that’s...

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is...

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is...

Alleged Anonymous Member Faces Internet Ban, Monitoring Software

The U.S. Government is demanding that an alleged member of the online hacking group Anonymous be banned from using the Internet as a condition of his release, but won’t require him to run FBI monitoring software on his computers, saying the monitoring wasn’t enforceable. In a motion filed on July...

FBI Arrests, Searches Do Little to Quiet Anonymous

ED: FBI Arrests, Searches Do Little to Quiet Anonymous DEK: There are more questions than answers two days after a spate of arrests of alleged members of the group Anonymous, with the group’s core leadership escaping attention. Was the arrest of more than a dozen members of the group Anonymous a...

Anonymous Claims Hack of NATO, Sends Warning to FBI

The Internet hacker collective Anonymous claims to have breached the security of NATO’s computer network and made off with roughly a gigabyte of “restricted material,” according to a message posted from a Twitter account belonging to the group. Anonymous released two NATO documents in PDF form,...

FBI Raids New York Homes of Suspected Anonymous Members

Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group. FBI Agents raided three homes in Brooklyn, Baldwin and Merrick, New York at 6:00 AM, armed with search warrants seeking computers and related...

McAfee Fingers North Korea in Attacks on South Korean Sites

An analysis by anti malware firm McAfee says that attacks against South Korean government and U.S. military Websites most likely came from North Korea. Analysis of the March, 2011 attacks and the malware used to carry them out suggest that the mission was carried out by forces in North Korea in...

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

Anonymous Hackers target Orlando websites & #OpOrlando Press Release

Anonymous Hackers target Orlando websites & OpOrlando Press Release The next target for the hacktivist group known as Anonymous will be the city of Orlando. Anonymous has reportedly shut down the Orlando Chamber of Commerce website. In One Press Release Anonymous Call To Arms In Op Orlando...

Anonymous Hackers target Orlando websites & #OpOrlando Press Release

Anonymous Hackers target Orlando websites & OpOrlando Press Release The next target for the hacktivist group known as Anonymous will be the city of Orlando. Anonymous has reportedly shut down the Orlando Chamber of Commerce website. In One Press Release Anonymous Call To Arms In Op Orlando...

ISP Outage, Not Hackers, Take Down MasterCard's Site

UPDATE: An Internet Service Provider outage, not hackers, was to blame for the unavailability of MasterCard’s website early Tuesday morning according to a statement from a company spokesman. “We can confirm that MasterCard’s corporate, public-facing website experienced intermittent service...

MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @AnonCentral and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D" We have check that is MasterCard.com is really down &...