About 10am this morning, Anonymous used Twitter to announce an attack on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) website. Anonymous claimed the ASIO website would be unavailable for the…
Hacktivists are campaigning against the Australian government’s proposed changes to privacy laws.
Tina Mailhot-Roberge
A few days ago, Anonymous activists hacked into AAPT, stole 40GB of data including customer information and forced offline ten Australian government websites.
Anonymous members stated in an online internet…
Reckon you know a lot about your online friends? Are you sure?
Stian Eikeland
Whenever the press covers a story about hackers, a great deal of the discussion concerns the nature of online identity, the cohesiveness of hacking groups, and the individuals that identify with these…
Stopping the internet isn’t impossible, but it’s unlikely any time soon.
iNKMan
By Philip Branch, Swinburne University of Technology
In a statement posted online last month, hacker collective Anonymous announced plans to shut down the internet. Yes, you read that right.
Operation Global Blackout, planned for March 31, is apparently…
Have the corporate exposés by Anonymous already backfired?
mr.smashy
Of all the tactics used by hacker collective Anonymous in any of its “operations”, the release of their victims' emails has been one that potentially could cause the most damage.
Previous releases have…
Threats of exposure have been met with threats of murder – or so it seems.
Eneas.
In recent weeks, the fractured nature of Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, has come to the fore after it declared war on Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel.
Dubbed “Operation Cartel”, it was announced…
Is it right for hackers, regardless of public support, to take the law into their own hands?
JacobDavis
High-profile hacktivist group Anonymous has turned its attention to fighting child pornography.
As a sign of what it pledges will become more widespread, the group this month launched an attack on a server…
Keep your friends close and your enemies, wherever possible, at bay.
Karat
On September 22, 23-year-old college student Cody Kretsinger was arrested by the FBI for his part in the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment by the high-profile hacking group LulzSec.
The hack resulted…
Are reactions against the infamous hacking group a sign of generational conflict?
JacobDavis
It’s a scene reminiscent of a thousand police dramas: the FBI arrived at the door of 20-year-old journalism student Mercedes Haefer, guns drawn, at 6am one morning last July.
She was still in her pyjamas…
Hacktivists remove choice from consumers – and in their own way lay down the law.
anonmunich
As you’ll know by now, hacktivist group Anonymous has vandalised the home page of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, posting a message which started: “To the Syrian people: the world stands with you against…
What would Hunter S. Thompson have made of DefCon 2011?
Profound Whatever
Las Vegas has a long association with people on the fringe of society but even Hunter S. Thompson’s characters Raoul Duke and his drug-soaked Samoan lawyer would have found visitors to the DefCon hacker…
At least 72 major organisations were hacked in “Operation Shady Rat”.
Gilderic (Recovering)
It’s official: we have entered a brave new world.
On Tuesday (US time), IT Security company McAfee announced the discovery of the most extensive hack-attacks ever seen, which the company referred to as…
A successful attack on PayPal could cause havoc.
[!!!] Sweet Peas Photography [!!!]
In a joint statement published earlier this week, hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec urged readers to boycott e-commerce giant PayPal, claiming:
“PayPal continues to withhold funds from WikiLeaks, a…
