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As the US government continues to ignore international pressure from governments and rights groups alike, the Guantanamo Bay prison still operates illegally under international law and the US constitution.. At this point, over 100 detainees out of 166 are on hunger strike. One of them, Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen... |
21 May 2013
09:48 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, Anonymous vowed to shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay which is used to keep suspected terrorists and people involved with terrorist groups, and which has been very controversial. More than half the inmates are now on hunger strike and there have been many reports criticizing the possi... |
21 May 2013
05:41 GMT |
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Four men associated with the LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced by a British court. All received prison terms, though Mustafa al-Bassam, who was a minor at the time, got a suspended sentence. Others will only serve a portion of their sentence in prison. Jake Davis, known as Topiary in the group, who acted as t... |
16 May 2013
11:14 GMT |
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Hacktivists from Taiwan continue to attack major Philippines websites after the recent incident in which the Philippine Coast Guard opened fire on a Taiwanese fishing vessel.
In the first phase of the campaign, hackers launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against government websites, but now t... |
14 May 2013
08:49 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers, most likely Muslims, have published a statement to announce the start of a new campaign. It’s called OpPetrol and it will be launched on June 20, 2013.
The campaign is aimed at several countries and governments whose wrongdoings are, in the hackers’ views, somehow connected to oil.
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13 May 2013
07:47 GMT |
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Last month, Anonymous hacktivists issued a statement announcing the start of OpGabon, a campaign whose main goal is to put an end to the ritual killings that take place in Gabon. On Thursday, the hackers released a second statement.
The hackers say that the campaign has been a success so far, but they don’t pl... |
10 May 2013
07:36 GMT |
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Today, on May 7, several hacktivist groups from all around the world have launched OpUSA, an operation that represents a form of protest against the United States.
The campaign, inspired by the recent OpIsrael, started a few hours ago and thousands of sites have already been hacked.
Hackers News Bulletin has been k... |
7 May 2013
05:19 GMT |
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The controversial Guantanamo Bay detention camp has made a lot of headlines lately, especially because of the recent hunger strike. Some Anonymous hacktivists have decided to take matters into their own hands, so they’ve launched a new campaign called Operation Guantanamo (OpGTMO).
In a video statement release... |
7 May 2013
03:55 GMT |
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The individuals from “PayPal 14” – a group of activists accused of launching the 2010 cyberattacks against PayPal after the company refused to continue processing donations for WikiLeaks – are due in court on May 14. Anonymous hacktivists have released a statement in which they urge everyone ... |
6 May 2013
05:10 GMT |
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The dismissal of a teacher from the Bishop Watterson Catholic High School in Columbus has triggered numerous protests. Many have argued that the decision to terminate Carla Hale from her job just because she admitted to being gay is clear discrimination.
Anonymous hackers have also sent a message to the Columbus Cat... |
30 April 2013
07:52 GMT |
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Last week, a Dutch citizen was arrested in Spain for his alleged involvement in the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against Spamhaus. The suspect is believed to be Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka CB3ROB, the owner of Cyberbunker.
Shortly after the arrest, a “statement” emerged on Pastebin, ca... |
29 April 2013
03:36 GMT |
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The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, has little chances of passing to the Senate in its current form. According to a Mashable report, the House of Representatives’ version of the Act won’t reach the Senate in its entirety, but some of its features migh... |
26 April 2013
02:52 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Anonymous hackers announced their intention to initiate Operation Alice Day (OpAliceDay), a campaign that involves distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, defacements, and doxing.
So who is the target of the campaign?
In the US, April has been declared by Congress as Child Abuse Preventi... |
24 April 2013
04:54 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Matthew Keys, the former Reuters deputy social media editor accused of helping Anonymous hackers deface the Los Angeles Times website, pleaded not guilty. The Huffington Post reports that the journalist hasn’t made any statements, but his lawyer has provided some details regarding their defen... |
24 April 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Reuters has fired Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor accused of conspiring with Anonymous hackers in the attacks against the Tribune Company and the Los Angeles Times. However, the media giant has told him that the termination has nothing to do with the indictment.
Keys broke the news on Twitter, shortly a... |
23 April 2013
03:02 GMT |
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Last week, Anonymous hackers leaked 1.5 GB of files which they claimed to have stolen from the systems of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and IT (Mincom.gov.az). However, Azerbaijani officials deny the allegations. The hackers say the files they’ve published contain information on corporations, g... |
22 April 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Today, April 22, at least 373 websites have joined Anonymous in their protest by shutting down regular activities and displaying an anti-CISPA banner.
Many of the sites that have joined the protest are run by activists, but other organizations are also on the list published by the hacktivists.
However, unlike with ... |
22 April 2013
05:02 GMT |
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Hacktivist collectives from all over the world are making preparations for OpUSA, a new campaign against the US government that will be launched on May 7, 2013.
One of the Anonymous-affiliated groups involved in OpUSA, N4m3le55 Cr3w (Nameless Crew), has published a statement for US President Barack Obama and US citi... |
22 April 2013
03:24 GMT |
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On Thursday, the Japanese National Police Agency urged Internet service providers (ISPs) to block the use of Tor (The Onion Router) in an effort to prevent the online anonymity system from being abused by criminals.
Civil rights groups have immediately responded, saying that they oppose the measure. Now, Anonymous h... |
20 April 2013
04:31 GMT |
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Internet blackouts have become quite common with all the recently-proposed pieces of legislation that pose a threat to privacy and civil liberties. Now that the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has passed the US House of Representatives, Anonymous hackers have announced another blac... |
20 April 2013
04:17 GMT |
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While investigating the propagation of the PlugX RAT with the use of Java exploits, security researchers from Kaspersky stumbled upon minjok.com, a news website that covers Korea-related political events.
Cybercriminals compromised the website and set it up to host a malicious Java applet that triggered the do... |
19 April 2013
09:50 GMT |
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Several websites belonging to the government of Gabon have been disrupted by Anonymous hackers. The attacks are part of OpGabon, a campaign initiated by the hacktivists in protest against ritual killings.
So far, the websites of the Gabonese president, the Department of Defense and the Ministry of Justice have been ... |
19 April 2013
09:20 GMT |
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The official Infantry website of Argentina’s Army (infanteria.mil.ar) has been defaced by Anonymous hacker ANON_0x03.
Currently, the website has been taken down by its administrators, but while it displayed the defacement page, visitors could see information leaked by the hacker from the site’s dat... |
18 April 2013
03:08 GMT |
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On April 7, 2013, Anonymous hacktivists launched numerous distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against various major Israeli websites as part of the OpIsrael campaign. Trend Micro has analyzed the source of these attacks and has found that, unlike on a regular day, on April 7, over 90% of the traffic c... |
17 April 2013
04:49 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Anonymous Philippines released a new video statement informing all Filipinos that they were ready to assist them in case they had information regarding abuses or wrongdoings.
“We have been receiving many messages -- from simple greetings, messages on links about news articles, complaints ... |
17 April 2013
04:27 GMT |
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At the beginning of April, Anonymous hackers breached the website and Twitter account of Uriminzokkiri, a North Korean news service. Today, the website has been once again hacked, along with a number of other North Korean news sites.
Uriminzokkiri hasn’t managed to recover its Twitter account, so the hackers a... |
15 April 2013
09:55 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have reinitiated OpBahrain and once again they’ve set their sights on the Formula 1 Grand Prix that’s scheduled to take place this weekend. Last year, the hacktivists took down the forumla1.com website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, and leaked the personal and finan... |
15 April 2013
09:05 GMT |
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A few days ago, Anonymous hackers announced the initiation of OpGabon, a campaign meant to raise awareness regarding the situation of the people from Gabon.
“The most gruesome murders are happening to children, men and women, with total impunity, in a country where Ali Bongo puts the army on every street corne... |
13 April 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Hackers of Anonymous Peru have managed to breach several websites owned by the Venezuelan government as part of a campaign called OpBlackDay. The list of affected websites includes the ones of the Agua Blanca hospital (hospitalaguablanca.gob.ve), the Portuguese Attorney (procuraduriadeportuguesa.gob.ve), Maderas Del... |
13 April 2013
06:08 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years, Anonymous hacktivists have launched several attacks as part of their campaign against Monsanto, a major US agricultural biotech organization, which the hackers condemn as being corrupt, unethical and even “evil.”
According to a statement published by Anonymous on Friday, ac... |
13 April 2013
04:47 GMT |
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For a (rather brief) while, LulzSec dominated the news world, each day with a new site hacked, new data leaked, one bigger than the other.
It wasn't to last, of course, LulzSec itself knew very well, as most hackers, that they would get caught eventually. They continued anyway.
26-year-old Ryan Ackroyd has ple... |
9 April 2013
13:40 GMT |
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Hackers of Anonymous Belgium have breached the official website of the Bree fire department in Belgium after learning that two of its volunteers have been accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl. The girl, a member of the fire department’s youth unit, has been allegedly abused by a 24-year-old man who leads th... |
8 April 2013
06:14 GMT |
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According to a report from IsraelNationalNews.com, Jordanian security forces have detained several individuals believed to have participated in the recent cyberattacks against Israel.
The news about the youths’ arrests comes on the same day in which hacktivists announced attacking a large number of Israeli we... |
8 April 2013
03:05 GMT |
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At the beginning of March, several hacktivist groups announced that they joined forces for OpIsrael. With only a few hours left until the campaign starts, hackers have already begun attacking some websites.
The list of groups that will take part in the operation includes AnonGhost, Mauritania HaCker Team, Ajax Team,... |
6 April 2013
05:13 GMT |
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A 17-year-old youth from Australia, suspected of being a member of Anonymous, was charged on Friday with hacking-related offences.
According to the Australian Federal Police, the suspect “committed serious offences” on behalf of Anonymous.
He is charged with six counts of unauthorized modification... |
5 April 2013
05:43 GMT |
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As many Anonymous supporters probably know, YourAnonNews (YAN) is one of the most trusted Anonymous-related news channels around. However, YAN has decided that Twitter and Tumblr are not enough, so they’re launching a new service.
“Many things have changed since we began from the rise of worldwide moveme... |
5 April 2013
04:41 GMT |
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Hackers apparently affiliated with the Anonymous movement have breached the website, the Twitter account and the Flickr account of Uriminzokkiri (translated as “Our Nation”), a China-based North Korea news website. In addition, several Uriminzokkiri-related websites have also been taken down.
On the comp... |
4 April 2013
09:11 GMT |
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With tension rising between North Korea and anyone who'll listen to them, it seems that some enterprising hackers took it upon themselves to fight for freedom in the country, by infiltrating many of its local networks. As proof, the allegedly Anonymous-connected hackers have published a small sample of alleged ... |
2 April 2013
07:51 GMT |
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Two prominent hackers on the jailbreak scene today are reporting a security breach involving Apple’s iMessage text-messaging service on iOS and OS X.“On Wednesday night my private iMessage handle got flooded with ‘Hi’ and ‘We are anonymous’ [expletive],” iH8sn0w tells TNW.Gra... |
30 March 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s former President and anti-apartheid hero, has been hospitalized again. In a statement to the media, cited by The Telegraph, a spokesperson explains that Mandela is being treated for a recurrent lung infection.
In recent years, his health has been deteriorating. In December last ... |
28 March 2013
04:37 GMT |
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Back in February 2011, members of the Anonymous group (at the time they were a “group”) and their supporters launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against websites owned by Koch Industries.
A few months later, the world learned that the FBI had launched an investigation into the attacks.
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27 March 2013
08:47 GMT |
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The Anonymous hacker movement intervened in many cases in which they believed things weren’t handled as they should have. Wherever there’s injustice, some hacktivists are bound to appear.
Which is why it’s not surprising that Anonymous hackers are featured in an episode of The Good Wife, one of the... |
27 March 2013
03:52 GMT |
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The website of the Aeronautics Hospital of Recife (harf.aer.mil.br), which is part of Brazil’s Air Force, has been breached and defaced by Algerian hacker H3ll-dz, a member of LulzSec Philippines.
The hacker says that the attack is part of OpBrazil, a campaign launched by Anonymous and LulzSec Philippine... |
26 March 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Anonymous and LulzSec Philippines have defaced an official website of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a region composed mostly of Muslim provinces, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines.
The affected domain, armmgov.ph, is an alternative to armm.gov.ph, which appears to be working properl... |
26 March 2013
08:04 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists once again announce their intentions to target Facebook. So far, their attempts have always failed, but this time around, their chances of accomplishing their goals are much higher.
That’s because they don’t plan on “wiping Facebook from the Internet.” Instead, they plan... |
26 March 2013
07:59 GMT |
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Over the past period, the Rohingya people, an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from Myanmar (Burma), have been persecuted by several extremist groups believed by some to be coordinated by the country’s government.
As a result, Anonymous hacktivists have launched OpRohingya, a campaign that’s meant to raise awaren... |
25 March 2013
08:57 GMT |
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Charaf Anons, the Anonymous Algeria hacker who defaced over 1,000 websites last week, has breached around 20 Chinese government websites and has replaced their index pages with his own defacement webpage.
In addition to the Chinese sites, the hacker has also defaced a Vietnamese government website and the one belong... |
25 March 2013
06:16 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have leaked confidential documents, reports, blueprints, passport scans, and other information they have allegedly obtained from high-profile organizations.
According to the hacktivists, the targets of this campaign, dubbed OpIranMenace, are the Export Development Bank of Iran, pipeline company Ark... |
23 March 2013
08:29 GMT |
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Several hacktivist groups are planning to unite their forces for OpIsrael starting with April 7. However, in the meantime, others keep targeting high-profile Israeli websites as a form of protest against the Israeli government. The latest attack is the result of cooperation between Sector 404, Anonymous and the noto... |
23 March 2013
05:19 GMT |
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Hacktivists of Anonymous Chile and Anonymous Latin America have initiated the second phase of a campaign called OpMalEducados (“mal educados” is Spanish for “poorly educated”).
The hackers are displeased with the fact that the quality of education offered in Chile depends on the student... |
22 March 2013
11:51 GMT |
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