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U.K. Police Say This Is the Face of LulzSec Hacker Known as Topiary
According to police in the United Kingdom, the photo you are looking at depicts one of the members of the LulzSec hacking group that has been so active this summer. The photo, which appeared on the...
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Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever
Researchers from security software concern McAfee say they have discovered the biggest series of computer intrusions ever, covering some 72 organizations and governments around the world, including the...
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U.K. Arrests Two More Suspected Members of LulzSec
The summer that started out dominated by news of attacks by the hacker gang LulzSec/Anonymous is closing with news of more arrests of alleged members of the group by police in the U.K. Scotland Yard...
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Facing Real-World Violence, Anonymous Backs Down From Drug Cartel
The hacking troupe Anonymous has apparently decided to call off a planned campaign to out associates of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. The campaign had been set to begin on Nov. 5. In a weird sort...
View ArticleIntelligence Firm Gets Hacked, Maybe by Anonymous
Influential international security research firm Stratfor Global Intelligence Service was hacked this weekend, with confidential client information posted online. While the attack itself has been...
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Anonymous Plays Robin Hood With Stolen Credit Cards
The hacking collective that goes by the name Anonymous appears to have had a busy Christmas weekend. First came word that that its members had attacked and compromised the servers of the global...
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Stratfor Hack Damage Report: 50,000 Credit Cards, 44,000 Passwords
A few days after the private security think tank Stratfor disclosed that it had been the victim of a hacking attack, apparently carried out by the loosely affiliated group Anonymous, the extent of the...
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How Scary Was the Internet in 2011?
With 2011 in the books, I thought it would be interesting to revisit some predictions I made last year on the subject of computer security. In “2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to...
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Grooveshark Fights a Copyright Lawsuit by Chasing After Anonymous Commenters
A media company is using subpoenas to demand the names and addresses of anonymous Web users. That’s a story we’ve seen before. But this one has a twist or two. The media company is Grooveshark, an...
View ArticleJulian Assange on Anonymous
This was a very apolitical group that had absolutely no understanding about the military-industrial complex whatsoever, and no understanding about international finance. As a result of joining our...
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Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point
AllThingsD.com The world seemed awfully impressed yesterday with the size and oomph of the revenge attacks carried out online in reaction to the arrests of four people associated with the file-sharing...
View ArticleHackers Anonymous
Anonymous is a handful of geniuses surrounded by a legion of idiots. – Cole Stryker, an author who has researched the hacker group
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Not Lulzing Anymore: Five Hackers Charged in U.S., U.K. and Ireland
Well, it finally happened: The hacking troupe variously known as LulzSec and Anonymous appears to have been beheaded. Fox News is reporting that five people who function as the group’s leaders have...
View ArticleHackers Post Mostly Inconsequential Twitter Account Data Online
Someone claiming to be affiliated with the “Anonymous” hacker movement posted thousands of Twitter usernames and passwords to Pastebin on Monday evening. A Twitter spokesperson told AllThingsD that the...
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WikiLeaks Prank Targets New York Times
That New York Times op-ed from Bill Keller defending WikiLeaks? Not real, the paper’s former executive editor tweeted this morning. The Web prank fooled lots of people, including New York Times...
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Hackers Claim FBI Has List of 12 Million iPhone and iPad ID Numbers
Why would the FBI allegedly be keeping a list of 12 million unique identifying numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod touches? And why was a copy of that list on a notebook PC belonging to an FBI...
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FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers
The FBI has shot down today’s claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads...
View ArticleGoDaddy Goes Down Hard; Anonymous Hacker Claims Responsibility
Web hosting company GoDaddy experienced a period of company-wide outages on Monday morning, taking down a slew of Web sites that rely on the company for hosting services. GoDaddy acknowledged its...
View ArticleGoDaddy: Service Outage Was Our Fault, Not Hacking
Monday’s meltdown of Web sites hosted by GoDaddy.com was due not to Anonymous-linked hackers but to failures of the company’s own systems, the company said Tuesday. A statement posted online by interim...
View ArticleEgging Anon
Today, Anon lacks the talent and semi-cohesion it once boasted across the net, and its most recent online crusade is an embarrassing reminder. This is less a war than the hacker equivalent of egging...
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