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What's up with the Anonymous hackfest?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-11-05 23:06
Hackers apparently linked to the hactivist group Anonymous today kept up a hacking spree to dump data they said they stole from Symantec, VMware, PayPal, Hyundai, and the U.S. Department of Energy and Transportation, among others.
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Anonymous ticked off about Zynga job cuts
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-10-31 02:26
The hacker group that calls itself Anonymous posted a warning message to Zynga and Facebook today.
The message says it will take Facebook down on November 5 and release Zynga games to the public on that day for free if Zynga doesn't stop its alleged plans for massive layoffs and offshoring of jobs.
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Anonymous to launch Wikileaks clone TYLER
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-10-25 11:45
According to a member of the hacking collective, there are plans to set up a similar service to Wikileaks by the end of the year.
A Wikileaks competitor is in the works, and due to be launched on December 21 this year, according to The Hacker News. A representative of the loose hacktivist group -- who said he was representing the collective as a whole -- spoke about the project in an emailed interview with the Voice of Russia.
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Anonymous hacks police private emails
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-10-25 11:39
Members of hacking group Anonymous retrieved the personal email details of private and serving officers from a website, and emailed them directly.
In a message addressed to “members of our U.K. police and armed forces”, they told officers and servicemen to “stand with us” in an upcoming campaign.
The security breach, which happened in a third-party web forum rather than official police computers, is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime unit. A spokesman insisted no Met Police systems had been compromised and confirmed inquiries were ongoing.
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Anonymous vows to sever ties after WikiLeaks erects paywall
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-10-15 00:47
What have you done for - or to - me lately? Anonymous is a long-time supporter of whistleblower site WikiLeaks, but a recent decision by the site to deploy a paywall on its website that blocks access to the site’s cache of leaked documents unless users donate or promote WikiLeaks via social media has drawn Anonymous' enmity.
On Thursday night, the loosely-knit hacker group, or rather, some of its membership, issued a post to the AnonPaste website on Thursday night in which they called the new campaign “filthy and rotten.”
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