Organizations that look to protect themselves against attacks launched by the Anonymous hacktivist collective should make sure that their Web applications are secure before deploying anti-DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) solutions, says security firm Imperva in a new report.
These days if you are a hardened political revolutionary, you’re just as likely to be a computer geek as someone who gets shoved around by cops at a street protest.
That’s largely thanks to the rise of Anonymous, a brand of hacktivism that has also taken Brazil by storm over the last year.
The Anonymous group appears to be most effective when launching a distributed denial of service attack, even though that doesn't appear to be its preferred strategy.
Allow me to state the obvious: Sometimes a so-called “leaked email” is just a bunch of words someone posted on the Internet.
Computer hackers from Denmark have exposed two suspected paedophiles in what they say is an attempt to clean up the web.
According to the Berlingske newspaper, the hackers, who published the names of two men on Facebook, are associated with the global online activist group Anonymous.
In secretive online chat rooms, away from the glare of police, small groups of elite hackers plot attacks against multi-national corporations and governments.
But in a quest to expose what they see as a conspiracy of high-level corruption, the hackers – affiliated to cyber-activist network Anonymous – have in recent months expanded their targets, becoming increasingly unpredictable and callous in the process.
Update: It's a hoax.
It appears that Stratfor CEO, George Friedman has tendered (or intends to tender) his resignation effective immediately citing the release of 5 million internal Statfor emails by Wikileaks'. From Pastebin (courtesy of @AnonymousIRC):
The website of an international prison contractor has been defaced by hackers who replaced the company's home page with a hip-hop homage devoted to former death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal.
Hackers allied to the loose-knit Anonymous movement claimed responsibility for vandalising the site of Florida's GEO Group Inc., which manages some 60 custodial facilities in Europe, North America, Australia and South Africa.
A critical vulnerability in some versions of Parallels' Plesk Panel control panel software appears to have been key to the recent penetration of two servers hosting websites for the Federal Trade Commission. The vulnerability in the software, which is used for remote administration of hosted servers at a large number of Internet hosting companies, could spell bad news for hosting providers who haven't applied the latest updates, as well as their customers.
Anonymous hackers have issued a statement claiming to have found child pornography on the Los Angeles Police Canine Association website.
Anonymous hackers "CabinCr3w" targeted the Los Angeles Police Canine Association's website and posted a statement and the stolen data on Pastebin. In it the Anon - the name Anonymous members use to define themselves - claimed to have discovered pornographic images of children on one officer's email account.
