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Tag Archives: Hacktivism
Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet
April 20, 2012 – 5:28 pm
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert interviewed for CNET article on hacktivism
March 30, 2012 – 2:05 pm
Source: Elinor Mills, CNET
In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.
Syria e-mail hack points to new “information war”
March 16, 2012 – 10:54 pm
Source: Peter Apps, Reuters
Whether Syrian rebels hacked President Bashar al-Assad’s e-mails themselves or with the help of Western spy agencies or “hactivists”, the release of dozens of revealing messages points to a new era of information warfare.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan on cloud protesting at Unlike Us conference
March 13, 2012 – 10:08 am
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan gave a talk on cloud protesting at the Unlike Us 2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology conference at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
Tap into the gifted young hackers, says Misha Glenny
March 8, 2012 – 1:28 pm
Source: Misha Glenny, The New York Times
Teenagers are not usually the main targets of the F.B.I., whose agents are used to dealing with hardened criminals. But for the Cyber Division, they appear to be the norm.
Anonymous DDoS methods and their evolution
February 16, 2012 – 11:56 am
Source: Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica
Most members of Anonymous would prefer to stay, well, anonymous. But as the group has engaged in increasingly high-profile attacks on government and corporate websites, doing so effectively and staying out of harm’s way have become an ever-growing challenge.
Andy Greenberg on Anonymous announcement to take out DNS server
February 16, 2012 – 11:14 am
Source: Andy Greenberg, Forbes
Exactly six weeks from today, Anonymous will pull off its greatest and most destructive stunt of all time: Taking down the 13 servers that act as the core address book for everything from the Web to email.
Politics biggest DDoS motivator
February 7, 2012 – 5:00 pm
Source: Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet
A survey by Arbor Networks has shown that service providers dealing with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks believe them to be ideologically motivated, rather than financially motivated or acts of vandalism.
AntiSec leaks Symantec pcAnywhere source code after extortion not paid
February 7, 2012 – 4:50 pm
Source: Darlene Storm, Computer World
Symantec had said it would pay $50,000 to a group of hackers associated with Anonymous and AntiSec in order to keep its source code from being leaked online.
Behind enemy lines: Snapshots from the 2011 Chaos Communication Congress
January 24, 2012 – 9:09 am
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan attended the 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (28C3). The Congress is a four-day event on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computing Club (CCC).
