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Anonymous supplants Pastebin with AnonPaste

, Apr 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

A hack a day keeps the government at bay? Maybe, maybe not. When Anonymous does crawl out from behind the curtains of the internet, they like to dump their prizes and valuable information to Pastebin. Naturally, Pastebin didn’t take too kindly to its service being used that way, and pledged to delete posts which it considered to be abusing the service. Not only that, Pastebin has been blocked in several countries. What’s an Anonymous to do? Simple! Create your own service. Read The Full Story

Anonymous not finished with China – More attacks coming soon

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [15]

Those popular hacktivists are at it again this past week, hacking hundreds and hundreds of Chinese government websites recently. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and have even more plans for the Chinese government coming soon, and bigger targets. Read The Full Story

Anonymous China hacks government websites in protest

, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [6]

Looks like those hacktivists are at it again. Anonymous has defaced even more websites, although the legion of hackers seems to be branching out, with this attack being perpetrated by Chinese Anonymous members. Hundreds of Chinese government websites have been defaced in the usual spectacular fashion. Dumps full of emails and phone numbers have also hit the internet via Pastebin, as well as instructions by the group on how to bypass the Great Firewall of China. Read The Full Story

Pastebin no longer safe haven for Hackers

, Apr 2nd 2012 Discuss [4]

The folks at the favorite info-dumping site of groups such as what once was LulzSec and the still very active Anonymous have announced they'll be cutting back on so-called "sensitive" posts. Pastebin has been a fabulous place for those with no wish to be tracked to their source to post information that could lead to law-breaking activities. That's not what the site was originally made for, but what it's become rather famous for over the past few months and years. The current owner, Jeroen Vader, has pledged to cut down on the amount of uses of the site which constitute "abuse" as set by their own rules. Read The Full Story

PSA: Anonymous ‘Internet Blackout’ a false lead

, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [2]

The hacker group known as Anonymous has been tipped to be initiating a project called "GlobalBlackOut" which would hypothetically knock out the vast majority of the HTTP internet. Though the text posted to PasteBin does appear to be an official Anonymous release, setting in motion wheels which would eventually lead to a March 31st attack on the pillars that hold up the greater web, not all is as it seems. Anonymous' own @anonops Twitter account dismissed the attack as a falsehood last month. Read The Full Story

LulzSec returns: hacks military dating website

, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [2]

Members of LulzSec may have been arrested earlier in the month by the FBI, but that doesn’t stop others picking up the name and running with it. A group of hacktivists calling themselves LulzSec Reborn yesterday hacked into dating website Military Singles. They managed to gather information on 170,937 accounts, and dumped all the email addresses and passwords for others to download. Read The Full Story

Hacktivists more active than cybercriminals in 2011

, Mar 22nd 2012 Discuss [2]

The past year or two has seen the rise of the hacktivist, most famously from groups like Anonymous and LulzSec. A new report from Verizon, the “2012 Data Breach Investigations Report”, bears that out in full, indicating that data attacks and thefts by hacktivists outpaced those by traditional cybercriminals in 2011. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: March 15, 2012

, Mar 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

There are two big news stories that I've got to yell at you about this morning, and one of them is, believe it or not, about the iPad. Yes indeed, we do have our very own review of the new iPad here the day before the actual unit comes out in stores - you'll want to check out our New iPad Review (3rd Gen) right now or forever hold your iPad 2 units. Then you must listen to this - it's finally happened - after long last, the day you and I have all been waiting for for so very long has arrived: Diablo III has been announced for release: May 15th is the day, and across the earth is the place. Read The Full Story

AnonOps claims Anonymous OS is fake

, Mar 15th 2012 Discuss [11]

This week, a custom Linux distro dubbed “Anonymous OS” was released, filled with tools designed to help you finally hack the gibson. It was all running on a modified version of Ubuntu. Now, AnonOps have taken to Twitter to say that the OS is fake, and “wrapped in trojans”. Read The Full Story

Anonymous OS version 0.1 released and detailed

, Mar 14th 2012 Discuss [9]

This week its been quietly announced that members of the hacker group known as Anonymous are releasing their very own desktop operating system. This system is known at the moment as Anonymous-OS and is currently in as infant a stage as it possibly could be at version 0.1. That's pre-pre-Alpha, for those of you counting, and we're not even going to tell you to download it or do a search for it - keep your eyes off of it! Read The Full Story

LulzSec’s Sabu set for witness protection and 122 year count dismissal

, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [11]

There's been a seemingly rather large rift in the hacker world this week with former head of the Anonymous-associated team LulsSec is now being accused of "snitching" to the FBI on his comrades. A handful of LulzSec-associated individuals have been arrested in the past week, and the most recent bit of news has been in regards to the safety of Sabu, the supposed informant. A document outlining the extent of Sabu's cooperating with the Federal government was signed on the 15th of August and made public just recently, and today we're finding that it does include several lines promising witness protection to the former hacker should he need it once his deeds were done. Read The Full Story

Anonymous strikes again: Hacks law enforcement supply website

, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [8]

Earlier this week, AntiSec, part of Anonymous, hacked and defaced Panda Security’s PandaLabs website after the FBI arrested five members of LulzSec. AntiSec have struck again, this time hacking New York Ironworks website, a company dealing in law enforcement supplies. They also posted a message taunting the FBI. Read The Full Story
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