Well known hacking group Anonymous have threatened to take down Facebook. The posting will concern many people as Facebook is used by many millions of people every single day. The message would indicate that Anonymous are not happy with the organisation due to previous sharing of private data – they …
Read More »Hackers claim corporations are ‘ridiculousy easy’ to attack
Hackers taking part in the Defcon conference in Las Vegas have said that corporations are ‘ridiculously easy' to attack. They claim that staff are poorly trained with security making it straightforward to plan a cyber attack against them. Hackers at Defcon take part in weekend contests to test their skills …
Read More »Anonymous ‘preview’ stolen Italian police files
Anonymous have published a preview of 8GB of confidential files which apparently belong to the Italian Cybercrime task force. The Italian wing of the Anonymous hacking group have showcased an extensive folder of items on their regional specific blog page over here. AnonOps Italy said the information they have would …
Read More »FBI arrest alleged members of Anonymous
Reports in from America today indicate that the F.B.I. have apparently arrested members of hacking group Anonymous. This is one of the largest raids in recent history as 14 alleged members have been taken into custody. The LATimes say that two of the people were from Southern California, although no …
Read More »Anonymous form a ‘political wing’
High profile hacking group Anonymous, have spoken to leading UK news site thinq_ saying that they have formed a ‘political wing'. It has been hard to escape the diluge of hacking news in recent months, with Lulzsec and Anonymous taking the headlines, almost daily. With the recent news of Lulzsec …
Read More »ex Lulzsec members join Anonymous – its not over
A few days ago we reported that Lulzsec had disbanded. We also thought that due to close links members of Lulzsec would reenter the scene under a different banner. It didn't take long for well known hacking group Anonymous reported on their twitter account that “All @LulzSec members have reported …
Read More »Anonymous deny credit card theft: have they been set up by Sony?
I was going to write something up on this yesterday, but I have been poking our contacts behind the scenes overnight, and rumors are rife within certain circles that Sony have possibly been trying to set up Anonymous as ‘leaving a calling card' over the recent networking breaches. Anonymous are …
Read More »Sony claim Anonymous may be behind attacks
Sony have said that the hackers who stole more than 100 million users personal details from the recent intrusion left a file implicating Anonymouse, the well known hacktivist group. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony, said in a letter to the US Congressional committee that a file was found by investigators …
Read More »Anonymous claim subsection may be responsible for Sony attack
Until the last day or so, Anonymous have denied taking responsibility for the recent attacks on Sony's Playstation Network. Popular UK news site Thinq however seem to have received information that highlight that a branch, or part of the famous hacking group have said that recent downtime and issues may …
Read More »Have anonymous attacked Sony PSN again?
The Sony Playstation Network has had an outage today and rumours are rife that the online gaming service has been the victim of a DDOS attack from ‘hacktivist' group Anonymous. Many users across Europe and America have been reporting problems logging into the Playstation Network in the last 24 hours. …
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