The predictions made by security company McAfee for 2012 are interesting from all the perspectives that concern companies, governments and individuals.
The company’s researchers conclude, based on the events that took place in the year that’s just about to pass, that hacktivist movements will either evo... |
30 December 2011
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Since black hat hackers that consider themselves to be hacktivists have been in the attention of the media lately, breaching the infrastructures of governments and major companies to prove their point, I thought it would be a great opportunity to find out not only about their operations, but also about the life of su... |
17 December 2011
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Security researchers have stumbled across an Android game that appears to have been trojanized by animal rights activists in order to shame its users.The controversial game is called "Dog Wars" and allows players to raise virtual dogs and pit them against each other.Obviously, this kind of actions, even if only virtu... |
18 August 2011
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' Operation Antisec have leaked a massive cache of personal records, email messages and confidential documents belonging to law enforcement agencies.The data was obtained recently when the group hacked into a server housing 77 websites belonging to county sheriff offices and othe... |
6 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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In light of the recent arrests of Anonymous and LulzSec members, the UK Metropolitan Police Service warns people against taking up hacktivism.Anonymous has already issued a statement which defiantly dismisses the recent wave of arrests across US and Europe as futile attempts at disrupting its social movement."It is o... |
3 August 2011
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People trying to access FC Zenit Saint Petersburg's website on Wednesday were greeted by a page slamming two of the city's top politicians, after a hacktivist managed to hijack the club's domain name.According to Sophos, the page displayed the pictures of Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko ... |
7 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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The websites of the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right British organization, was defaced by a hacktivist who accused the group of extremism.The English Defence League is a radical group established in 2009 with a stated goal to stop the spread of Islamism in England.The organization claims to have thousands of... |
11 February 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The group of Romanian hacktivists calling themselves Romanian National Security (RNS) have attacked and defaced multiple websites belonging to the biggest Italian public television company Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), as well as leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Corriere della Sera. The message left behind... |
30 April 2010
10:24 GMT |
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A group of Romanian hacktivists, who recently defaced two websites associated with The Daily Telegraph as a protest against negative depictions of the Romanian people in the British media, attacked the French newspaper Le Monde over the weekend, citing similar reasons. On April 14, a previously unknown group of hack... |
20 April 2010
11:30 GMT |
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Two websites hosted on the telegraph.co.uk domain were defaced to display Romanian patriotic messages and the country's flag, yesterday. The hacktivists who claimed responsibility for the attack expressed anger at the British media for portraying the Romanian people in an unfavorable light.
The attack targete... |
15 April 2010
09:31 GMT |
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Attackers identifying themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army" succeeded in hijacking Twitter's DNS records late on Thursday. The twitter.com domain and several other subdomains were pointed to a Web page displaying a political message taunting the United States.The attack happened under the cover of night, at aro... |
18 December 2009
10:10 GMT |
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The website of the Shaolin Temple, probably the most famous Buddhist monastery in the world, has been hacked several times recently. On November 11, the website was defaced and, instead of its usual content, a fake letter allegedly signed by the temple's abbot was displayed.The Shaolin Temple, also known as the ... |
26 November 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The website of the biggest Australian film festival was defaced by Chinese hacktivists. The politically motivated hackers replaced the content with the Chinese flag and messages against Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uyghur ethnic group, who was invited to attend the event. The 2009 edition of the Melbourne Internatio... |
28 July 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Several sections of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) website have been defaced by an Indian hacktivist. He warns the government that this is just the beginning, if attacks against Indian students living in Australia don't stop. According to Trend Micro's Solutions Architect Rik Ferguson, who was among... |
18 July 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Local media in Germany is reporting (translate) that hackers have defaced the website of the German Interior Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. On the first page, the website was promoting a link to a site protesting against the new biometric passports and telecommunications data retention legislation. The new data r... |
12 February 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online group calling themselves “H... |
10 January 2009
05:20 GMT |
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