Tagged: Anonymous & News
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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 -
SOPA and Ireland: Minister publishes draft of statutory instrument News
26.01.2012 One of the main reasons for the ‘Irish SOPA’ controversy brewing up was no one had seen the draft legislation, or statutory instrument amending the legislation. Today, junior...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Communications, Internet, Social Media -
Ireland taking a ‘whole of Government’ response to Anonymous threat News
25.01.2012 A response to hacker group Anonymous’ attack on a number of Irish Government websites in light of the controversial statutory instrument dubbed Ireland’s SOPA is being met with... -
SOPA-inspired Anonymous attacks on Irish Govt sites a ‘warning shot’ News
25.01.2012 The Irish Government is now in the sights of hacker collective Anonymous which last night took down the websites of the Department of Justice and the Department of Finance as...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Intellectual Property, Government -
Anonymous plans a Facebook black out on 28 January News
24.01.2012 Facebook is being targeted by hacker collective Anonymous, that wants to see the social network ‘taken down’ on 28 January. -
Anti-ACTA hackers attack Polish websites News
23.01.2012 Anonymous hackers today attacked Polish government websites, including the website of the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk. Poland is to be one of the first countries in... -
#OpMegaupload links by Anonymous trick users into attacking US Govt News
20.01.2012 The latest Anonymous attack, dubbed #OpMegaupload and spread via Twitter, tricks internet users into clicking on an Anonymous link that instantly launches a denial of service...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Games/Entertainment -
FBI shuts down Megaupload, charges seven people News
20.01.2012 The FBI has charged seven people with running an “international organised criminal enterprise” through file-sharing site Megaupload and other related sites. Meanwhile, Anonymous... -
Hacker blackmails Symantec – threatens to release Norton source code News
16.01.2012 A hacker is threatening security player Symantec with plans to release the entire source code for Norton Antivirus. -
Securing the cloud – Ireland in vanguard of war on cyber crime News
12.01.2012 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you cannot help but realise the world is under attack from increasingly sophisticated gangs of cyber attackers. -
Anonymous attack reveals US, UK and Nato email passwords News
09.01.2012 A hacker attack believed to have been orchestrated by Anonymous has seen thousands of US and British email addresses and passwords belonging to politicians, defence department... -
Sony hacked again by Anonymous News
06.01.2012 Sony has once again fallen victim to hacker collective Anonymous, which has this time targeted Sony Pictures. The move comes just months after Sony recovered from a devastating...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Networking, Internet, Games/Entertainment -
Strategy 2011 - the year of high-profile hacker attacks News
28.12.2011 The year 2011 was the year of Anonymous and LulzSec, and of course WikiLeaks, in terms of how the established order of things were shook to the very core by the internet world.... -
Anonymous threatens retaliation if SOPA gets passed News
21.12.2011 Hacker group Anonymous has come out with a statement on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which reconvenes in the US Senate today. While the world has been given...