Tagged: Anonymous
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Weekend news roundup: Google accused of avoiding UK tax, Facebook a year after IPO News
20.05.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, a former Google executive claims to have proof the internet search giant has avoided tax in the UK, Facebook... -
Anonymous hacks North Korea’s Twitter page News
04.04.2013 Hacker group Anonymous has declared its own war against North Korea by hacking in and seizing control of the country’s Twitter and Flickr accounts. -
Hackers at war … with themselves! Rustle League claims Anonymous Twitter hack News
21.02.2013 Hacker group Rustle League has claimed to have hacked the Twitter account of better known hacker collective Anonymous, @Anon_Central, which has 160,000 followers. -
Anonymous defaces MIT homepage after death of Aaron Swartz News
14.01.2013 Hacker group Anonymous defaced the homepage of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just hours after the prestigious technology school promised a full investigation into...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Communications -
Mass hacking attacks on Israeli government websites – reports News
19.11.2012 Israeli government websites have been targeted by more than 44m hacking attempts since Israel began its Gaza air strikes last Wednesday, but apparently only one attack has been... -
GoDaddy.com denies Anonymous attacked its servers News
11.09.2012 Claims by hacker collective Anonymous that a denial of service attack took down millions of hosted websites are incorrect, the interim CEO of GoDaddy Scott Wagner said today. -
Source of AntiSec’s UDID leak revealed – and it’s not the FBI News
11.09.2012 Last week, hacker group AntiSec published 1,000,001 Apple user device identifiers (UDIDs) claiming that the data came from an FBI laptop the organisation had breached in March.... -
AntiSec hackers publish 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs allegedly obtained from FBI News
04.09.2012 AntiSec, a hacking group linked to Anonymous and LulzSec, has published data it claims was obtained from a breached FBI laptop that contained more than 12m Apple unique device...Categories: Security, Data Management -
FBI denies leaked UDIDs came from its organisation, AntiSec just getting started News
05.09.2012 The FBI has responded to AntiSec’s claim that it breached the laptop of a special agent and obtained a database of more than 12m Apple unique device identifiers (UDIDs) and... -
Apple to ban UDIDs following AntiSec data leak News
06.09.2012 Earlier this week, AntiSec hackers published 1,000,001 unique device identifiers (UDIDs) from Apple devices, which it claims came from a file on an FBI laptop. In response,... -
Anonymous member claims responsibility for GoDaddy attack that took millions of sites offline News
11.09.2012 Millions of sites registered with GoDaddy.com were knocked offline for four hours yesterday as a result of a massive denial of service attack for which an Anonymous member... -
Hacker group Anonymous attacks website of the court that jailed Pussy Riot News
21.08.2012 The Moscow district court that jailed Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been attacked by Anonymous and defaced with a slogan denouncing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. -
AFP’s e-diplomacy hub shows digital diplomacy in action on Twitter News
26.06.2012 News agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has launched the e-diplomacy hub, a web application that shows how political figures, activists and even militant groups are using Twitter. -
Anonymous on Time magazine's 100 most influential list News
19.04.2012 Hacktivist collective Anonymous has made it onto Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World list. -
Anonymous hackers take down UK government sites News
10.04.2012 Hackers associated with Anonymous apparently caused three UK government websites to crash over the weekend, in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to protest the... -
LulzSec hackers reborn with military dating website attack? News
28.03.2012 Hacker group LulzSec has apparently undergone a type of resurrection. A new flurry of hackers, calling themselves LulzSec reborn, are claiming to have exposed more than 170,000... -
Two Irish hackers caught up in FBI swoop on LulzSec News
06.03.2012 UPDATE: The FBI infiltrated hacker group LulzSec via its apparent leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka, ‘Sabu’ and some of the major arrests include two Irish hackers. They are... -
Anonymous hackers intercept FBI and Scotland Yard call News
03.02.2012 There are red faces at the FBI today and on their colleagues across the water in London, Scotland Yard, after it emerged that hacker collective Anonymous intercepted and... -
SOPA, so good – Sherlock holds off copyright change until Dail debate News
27.01.2012 Just like waves of protest in the US held off the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in Ireland public concern expressed in the form of a petition and public debate have encouraged...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Communications