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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 17th, 2013
South Korea Accuses North Korea of Cyberattacks on Newspaper, Transition Team

South Korea Accuses North Korea of Cyberattacks on Newspaper, Transition Team

South Korean authorities are certain that Pyongyang is behind the attacks

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 16th, 2013
Anonymous Hackers Leak 33GB of Files Allegedly Taken from JSTOR

Anonymous Hackers Leak 33GB of Files Allegedly Taken from JSTOR

Some say the files might be the ones leaked by Maxwell back in 2011

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 16th, 2013
WBC Threatens to Picket Aaron Swartz Funerals, Anonymous Intervenes – Video

WBC Threatens to Picket Aaron Swartz Funerals, Anonymous Intervenes – Video

The hacktivists have launched a campaign called OpAngel

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 15th, 2013
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters Initiate Week 6 of Operation Ababil 2

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters Initiate Week 6 of Operation Ababil 2

The attacks will continue for more than a year if the movie is not removed

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 14th, 2013
6 Philippines Government Sites Hacked in Protest Against Cybercrime Law

6 Philippines Government Sites Hacked in Protest Against Cybercrime Law

The attack comes just before a Supreme Court hearing on the Anti-Cybercrime Act of 2012

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 14th, 2013
Anonymous Hacks MIT Website in Memory of Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz

Anonymous Hacks MIT Website in Memory of Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz

The hacktivists call for a reform of cybercrime and copyright laws

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 12th, 2013
US Army to Hackers: If You Commit a Crime Against Us, We Will Find You

US Army to Hackers: If You Commit a Crime Against Us, We Will Find You

No one can escape the Criminal Investigation Command’s Computer Crimes Investigative Unit

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 11th, 2013
Phone Hacking Ring Targeting New York Businesses Possibly Linked to Al Qaeda

Phone Hacking Ring Targeting New York Businesses Possibly Linked to Al Qaeda

In one instance, the attackers made 9,000 overseas calls

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 10th, 2013
Rex Mundi Hackers Blackmail Drake International, Threaten to Leak 300,000 Records

Rex Mundi Hackers Blackmail Drake International, Threaten to Leak 300,000 Records

The company says it has contacted the police and it will not give in to extortion

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 10th, 2013
Turkey’s Council of Higher Education Hacked by RedHack, 60,000 Documents Leaked

Turkey’s Council of Higher Education Hacked by RedHack, 60,000 Documents Leaked

The hacktivists are determined to unmask corrupt universities

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 10th, 2013
Anonymous Asks US President to Make DDOS Attacks a Legal Form of Protesting

Anonymous Asks US President to Make DDOS Attacks a Legal Form of Protesting

The petition they've created needs to be signed by 25,000 people

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 9th, 2013
Experts Identify, Analyze Botnet Used to Launch DDOS Attacks Against US Banks

Experts Identify, Analyze Botnet Used to Launch DDOS Attacks Against US Banks

Incapsula researchers reveal some interesting details about the botnet

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 9th, 2013
Week 5 of Operation Ababil 2: Sites of BB&T, PNC, HSBC and Fifth Third Disrupted

Week 5 of Operation Ababil 2: Sites of BB&T, PNC, HSBC and Fifth Third Disrupted

The attacks will continue for at least another 169 days

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 8th, 2013
al-Qassam Hackers Create Equation to Determine Duration of Attacks on US Banks

al-Qassam Hackers Create Equation to Determine Duration of Attacks on US Banks

The fifth week of Operation Ababil 2 has been initiated

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 8th, 2013
Bangladesh Cyber Army Attacks Indian Sites in Memory of 15-Year-Old Girl – Video

Bangladesh Cyber Army Attacks Indian Sites in Memory of 15-Year-Old Girl – Video

DDOS attacks have been launched against the websites of BSNL and PaisaControl

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 7th, 2013
US Officials Criticize White House for Not Responding to Attacks Against US Banks

US Officials Criticize White House for Not Responding to Attacks Against US Banks

Intelligence officials say the cyberattacks should be treated as covert warfare

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • January 4th, 2013
Sites of Capital One, HSBC, Fifth Third Bank, Ally Financial Disrupted by DDOS Attacks

Sites of Capital One, HSBC, Fifth Third Bank, Ally Financial Disrupted by DDOS Attacks

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters continue Operation Ababil 2

 
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