TagsTagsThe FBI has served more than 40 search warrants in the investigation of the cyberattacks against several major financial institutions. 'Anonymous' is finding out how un-anonymous they really are. The F.B.I. investigation is part of a larger international inquiry into a loose confederation of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” that coordinated the ...
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The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing part of their criminal investigation of 'Operation Payback', leading to a raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29--As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, ...
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The non-home of the anonymous non-organization that is everywhere and everyone is apparently under a DOS attack of its own today: 4Chan.org Down Amid DDOS Attack.
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Here's a screen shot, showing what a small portion of today's DOS attack looked like in the Apache error log:
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After I posted the earlier article about the pro-Wikileaks non-organization "Anonymous" and their attack on the Bank of America website, and called them (with my usual tact) "vigilante morons," the non-organization's hive mind apparently decided to send a message to Little Green Footballs. I happened to be keeping an eye on ...
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And this morning, the non-organization of non-hackers who are everywhere and everyone is attacking the website of Bank of America. It's pretty obvious that these vigilante morons won't be allowed to continue doing this much longer. UPDATE at 12/27/10 11:08:29 am: And now, because I criticized them, 'anonymous' is attacking LGF. Hang in ...
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Someone purporting to belong to the non-organized anarchist hacker non-group "Anonymous" has sent an open letter to Glenn Beck, inviting Beck to join their "movement," except they're not a movement, and saying Beck's welcome to talk to them any time, except they're not a "them." They're everywhere, all at once, ...
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Yesterday I commented: The anonymous folks may think they're really anonymous and all proxied up and everything, but if a company like Visa has virtually unlimited money to spend on it (which they do), they will be identified. Today the first arrest in the Wikileaks revenge hacking cases took place: ...
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It appears that one of ABC News's sites has been hacked.
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Now the website for credit card giant Visa is under attack by the Anonymous group, in "revenge" for Visa cutting off service to Wikileaks. UPDATE at 12/8/10 3:00:42 pm: Sarah Palin's website and personal credit card accounts are also under attack, by a group called "Operation Payback."
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