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Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-01-23 03:35
In a rebuke to a legion of online supporters and what the journalist and one-time member of Anonymous called a “dangerous precedent”, Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison by a federal judge in Dallas on Thursday.
66-Years-Old Rocker Arrested For Involvement in 2010 Anonymous DDoS Attack
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-12-09 00:14
A 66-years-old British rock guitarist received a jail sentence for joining the Anonymous hacker collective in the organized distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2010 against various institutions and organizations in the US.
Dubbed Operation Payback, the attacks aimed at different organizations that opposed the activities of WikiLeaks, as well as financial institutions.
Anonymous Is Going To War With The KKK Over Ferguson Protests
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-11-17 23:49
Members of the hacker collective Anonymous are targeting the Ku Klux Klan after the designated hate group reportedly threatened protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The hackers claim to have seized two KKK Twitter accounts and say that they have launched denial-of-service attacks against a number of white supremacist websites affiliated with the Klan. The group has also publicized personal information allegedly belonging to KKK members.
Anonymous hacks Ferguson police site for dispatch tapes
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-08-14 00:03
A lot of speculation has been circling around police procedure during and after the shooting of Michael Brown. Now, Anonymous is hoping to shine a light on what the police knew that day. It appears the hacking group has gotten its hands on dispatch tapes from the St. Louis County Police.
Israeli group posts photos of not-so-Anonymous hackers
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-04-14 05:10
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online, during the organization’s OpIsrael hacking attack last week
A hacker called Buddhax, a member of the Israeli Elite Force hacking group, posted the information on the IEF’s Facebook page Wednesday, two days after anti-Israel hackers attempted to repeat last year’s mass attacks on Israeli sites.