Spanish police today arrested three suspected members of Anonymous on charges of cyber attacking targets including Sony, governments, businesses and financial institutions, Reuters reports. The suspects had been involved in the recent denial-of-service attack on Sony’s PlayStation online gaming store, as well as other cyber attacks on Spanish banks and Italian energy group Enel, the [...]
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The International Monetary Fund is preparing to counterstrike against a possible cyber attack from hacker collective Anonymous Operations, a spokesman said Wednesday. “We are aware of the threat, and have taken appropriate action,” IMF spokesman William Murray said in an email, according to MarketWatch. Zero Hedge earlier today published a post linking to an Anon [...]
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Maybe it’s karma or maybe it’s just the nature of the hacking world, but infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous was recently hacked by one of its own, according to postings from administrators of the groups’ network. Postings on a site belonging to a subgroup called Anonops claim an insider named Ryan hijacked one of the group’s [...]
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Only a day after Sony CEO Howard Stringer apologized to customers Thursday for last month’s massive data breach, a group of hackers is planning to strike again and launch another missive of cyber attacks against the company in retaliation for its handling of the hack, CNET reported. An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel [...]
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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has announced OpIran, a new campaign designed to launch denial-of-service attacks at Iranian websites, according to news reports. Addressing the Iranian people, a post on AnonNews.org noted how “an era of change is sweeping the world,” and workers everywhere are taking their place to lead and control their destiny. “The people of [...]
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Assistant director for the cyber division of the FBI, Gordon Snow, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism this week to talk about how the bureau is responding to the ongoing threat of cyber crime terrorism. Snow discussed the overall cyber threat and said he couldn’t overstate the potential impact the [...]
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Sony announced today it has reached a settlement with PlayStation 3 hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, who agreed to a permanent injunction, Ars Technica reported. “Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers,” Sony’s general counsel Riley Russell said in a statement. “We believe this settlement and the permanent [...]
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