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.
Tag Archives: Hacktivism
Anonymous DDoS methods and their evolution
February 16, 2012 – 11:56 am
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).
Anonymous exposes US and UK defence and intelligence officials
January 8, 2012 – 1:59 pm
Source:The Guardian
Thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers, have been revealed on the internet following a security breach by hackers.
One year after Cablegate: WikiLeaks’ legacy on cyberactivism
November 29, 2011 – 3:54 pm
One year ago, on November 28, 2010, five major newspapers including The New York Times and The Guardian simultaneously published the first 220 of 251,287 confidential US diplomatic cables collected by the whistle-blower organization known as WikiLeaks. Many things have changed since then, including our perception of hacktivism and of its role in the cyberpower game.
Anonymous threatens Mexican drug cartels
October 31, 2011 – 12:13 pm
Source: Dane Schiller, Houston Chronicle
An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate’s associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates’ businesses.
Syrian internet censors’ log files released
October 6, 2011 – 10:43 am
Hacktivism and the long tradition of dissent
September 7, 2011 – 9:23 am
Source: The New Scientist
The recent arrests of members of the hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous raise basic issues that date back to long before the birth of the computer, let alone the internet.
