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Anonymous Attacks Child Porn Websites and Publish User Names
Anonymous attacked pedophile websites and stated that anyone hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography will become a target.
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Anonymous Vows Destruction of Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day
Notorious online collective Anonymous ("hacktivists") have vowed to destroy Facebook this November 5. Is Google Plus partly to blame?
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Chinese hackers deface the Russian Consulate in Shanghai
That was fast. Chinese hackers collaborating with the Chinese Hacking Union, a two-years old training community for wannabe hackers, hacked and defaced the official web site of the General...
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Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack
In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in...
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Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain...
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Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
From Russia with (political) love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under...
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300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack...
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Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites
The rise of pro-Kosovo web site defacement groups was marked in April, 2008, with a massive web site defacement spreading pro-Kosovo propaganda. The ongoing monitoring of pro-Kosovo hacking groups...
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Anonymous Attacks Child Porn Websites and Publish User Names
Anonymous attacked pedophile websites and stated that anyone hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography will become a target.
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Anonymous Vows Destruction of Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day
Notorious online collective Anonymous ("hacktivists") have vowed to destroy Facebook this November 5. Is Google Plus partly to blame?
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LulzSec, Anonymous and hacktivism: Crappy security has caught up with us
We're pawns in this new game of Internet attack one-upmanship. You know it won't end well. But we watch anyway as we realize that our security procedures have been a joke for years.
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Chinese hackers deface the Russian Consulate in Shanghai
That was fast. Chinese hackers collaborating with the Chinese Hacking Union, a two-years old training community for wannabe hackers, hacked and defaced the official web site of the General...
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Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack
In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in...
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Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain...
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Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
From Russia with (political) love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under...
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300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack...
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Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites
The rise of pro-Kosovo web site defacement groups was marked in April, 2008, with a massive web site defacement spreading pro-Kosovo propaganda. The ongoing monitoring of pro-Kosovo hacking groups...
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Commentary: Hacktivism misses the target
"Hacktivists" may think they are furthering the interests of the United States, but their activities are not beneficial, says Gartner Group analyst Richard Mogull.
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The new age of hacktivism
Online vandals deface prominent Web sites to vent their opinions. Are they saying anything interesting?
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'Hacktivism': Mideast cyberwar heats up
Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sites continue to be hit as hacktivists go beyond mere Web defacements and denial-of-service.
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