If you were trying to get the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, you couldn’t do much better than Blake Benthall, alleged (and, as of today, indicted) founder of the Silk Road 2.0 online drug marketplace. Silk Road 2.0 arose,… Read More ›
They’re at it again. Or perhaps they never stopped. The last we heard from the Algerian hacking crew of anti-Israeli ISIS sympathizers called Team System DZ, they were exulting in very poor English about a string of over 200 defaces. The attacks… Read More ›
Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›
AnonSec, the mysterious Kurdish Peshmerga-supporting hacker crew which has become the bane of Indonesian government webmasters (among others), and who claim to have hacked an NSA drone, has a new target. Tiny Turkish ecommerce sites. In a list posted to… Read More ›
“Language has run riot in an age of mass communication. It must be reduced to its proper function – the expression of authentic content, rather than its concealment.” Martin Esslin If Anonymous is not a hacking gang, With a master… Read More ›
For the past seven years, Yahoo has been fighting the NSA in court. Why haven’t you heard about this till now? Because they were secret courts, secret proceedings, and secret terms. And Edward Snowden hadn’t been invented yet. Yahoo lost…. Read More ›
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Attention, UK Spooks, Feds, and other governmental-type security professionals! Anonymous would like to let you know: it’s ON! The UK is one of the most survielled countries in the world in significant part because of GCHQ, an organization so… Read More ›
The Anonymous Justice Operation OpFerguson came together and gelled in the time Michael Brown’s body was still lying on the ground after his shooting at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since that time the Twitter account has been one of… Read More ›
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revealed that between 2010 and 2013 it has been hacked three times successfully, with 17 attempts in total. Oddly, while the story is given prominent play on the UK Huffington Post, a search of the… Read More ›
He says he will actually walk out a free man “soon,” but not for the reason Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers claim, ill-health. His lawyer told RT he isn’t going anywhere. After two years snugly corralled in the Ecuadorian embassy in London,… Read More ›
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›
Since the Saturday shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown at the hands of an as-yet-unnamed Ferguson police officer, operatives within Anonymous have been working to bring what they see as justice to Ferguson and its citizens. And, not incidentally, its… Read More ›
OpFerguson is the Anonymous operation which sprang into being over the last three days, in response to the Saturday police shooting of unarmed teen Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. So far Anonymous has taken down the City website for several… Read More ›
When the Ferguson, Missouri police fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown (hands in the air when shot, according to witnesses), they did what Israel hadn’t been able to do in weeks: they took the focus of Anonymous off Gaza and… Read More ›
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