Articles tagged "Anonymous"

In 2012, DDoS attacks increased by a pretty ridiculous 200 percent, and 35 percent of businesses experienced some kind of disruptive DDoS attack.

Or was he?

It all started one night—at a friend’s house—when four boys raped Rehtaeh. One of them took a photo and distributed it online.

ProjectPM has served as an online monument to Brown’s work that has survived beyond his isolation from the real world. If the Department of Justice succeeds in taking the Wiki down, that all may be lost.

I caught up with the journalist and popularly mislabeled spokesperson of Anonymous who is facing a century of hard time in a federal American prison for threatening a FBI officer, hiding evidence that obstructed his warrant, and sharing a link within…

In the wake of the Florida State meatspin troll, we rank the best school hacks. And we don't mean the teachers

Sabu stands to benefit from being an informant a little longer.

They aren't the aggressively-perspiring, jailbait-loving pervs who destroy teenage girls' lives then mock their deaths on Facebook memorial pages.

On Wednesday, the government announced that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for Anonymous, is facing up to 100 years in jail.

In response to the harsh sentences recently levied against DDoS action organizers, online activists are trying to make the case that disrupting online should be regarded as a legal form of protest.

He doesn’t appear to be in Fed custody for the moment, but this mugshot via Dallas County records confirms that Barrett Brown, better known as @BarrettBrownLOL on Twitter, is at the very least sitting in county jail awaiting possible charges on Thurs…

The fun-loving, government oppression-hating hackers at AntiSec are back in action with the release of over a million Apple user IDs. The encrypted file hit the web late Monday night along with a characteristic rant against everything from the NSA to…

Anonymous, the world's preeminent becostumed online activist group, is going after pedophiles again. Never mind that the name of the project, Operation PedoChat, sounds almost as creepy as the assholes they're attacking—Anonymous is aiming to shut do…

The general consensus among authorities is that Anonymous is a threat, both from a criminal and national security perspective. The criminal aspect is easy for police to argue; taking down a "corporation like Sony":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/4/1…

_Sabu, one of the most vocal 'leaders' of the supposedly leaderless Anonymous, has allegedly been arrested by the FBI, according to a "Fox News report":http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/hacking-group-lulzsec-swept-up-by-law-enforcement/. It's…

On Monday, Anonymous and Wikileaks joined efforts to reveal the inner workings of 'global intelligence' company Stratfor. It's a match made in heaven: Anonymous retrieved the data with their madly skilled network of superhackers and vigilante publish…

The most recent bombshell of confidential documents dropped by infamous watchdog organization Wikileaks is already looking to have an enormous impact on our understanding of government security practices. Specifically, intimate details on the long-su…

Online hacktivist collective Anonymous has had its hands full lately. Between the "SOPA and ACTA protests":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell…

More than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice raid on the New Zealand offices of popular file-sharing service Megaupload, a lot of us are still finding ourselves awe-struck. It's no surprise considering the site, which sports 50 million dai…

After their "visible hesitance":http://www.breakingcopy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/time_mag_covers_dec_5_2011.jpg to prominently cover various popular uprisings around the world, it seemed almost as if in compensation that TIME Magazine chose to

When you see pixels used in animations, it’s usually quite "frivolous and fun":http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/goldfishs-pixel-music-video-is-chock-full-of-video-game-references, giving a knowing nod to fondly remembered video games and their 8-bi…

Even when it means breaking the law, there are few places the FBI won't go these days to check if you're up to no good. Your "car":http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/, your "computer":https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/13460-Documents-…

"They are shy, sweet, incredibly brilliant and, I think, more effective in pushing the culture around now in good ways than almost any group I can think of." A lot has changed about hackers and how people perceive them. But at least the last part