Tag Archives: Anonymous
European Parliament committee rejection
may spell the end for ACTA
The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may be DOA when the full European Parliament votes on it on July 3, after the Parliament’s International trade committee, INTA, rejected the agreement 19-12 Thursday. ACTA is designed to combat international trade in pirated intellectual property, but much like the currently dormant Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S., has raised vigorous … Read more
Indian DDoS attacks come against backdrop
of serious Internet freedom issues
The wave of DDoS attacks hitting various Indian government websites, as well as those of ISPs, the country’s Supreme Court and a couple of political parties hasn’t gotten all that much play outside that nation, but the themes strike some familiar chords, with Anonymous claiming credit for the attacks in response to court-ordered cutoffs by ISPs of several popular file-sharing … Read more
Hacktivists have become big-time data thieves, widely use
DDoS diversionary tactics, Verizon breach report shows
The sudden emergence of hacktivists as data thieves on a massive scale, revealed in this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, is game-changing news. In 2011, hacktivists were responsible for 100 million of the 174 million records stolen in cases investigated by Verizon and participating international law enforcement agencies. By comparison, the number of records stolen in hacktivist breaches in … Read more
Wither Anonymous after the latest arrests?
It’s impossible to predict where loosely organized, pseudo-movement hacktivism goes from here, following the arrests of five people associated with LulzSec and Anonymous and a sixth person charged in the hack of intelligence services company Stratfor. These actions follow the arrests of 25 people associated with Anonymous in an Interpol sweep last week. Last July, 16 Anonymous members were arrested … Read more
More than half of U.S. DDoS victims blame
unscrupulous competitors, Corero survey reveals
Anonymous is not the biggest threat to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attack against your organization. Ideologically and politically inspired (aka hacktivist) DDoS attacks have gained wide notoriety, with some justification. The victim sites are highly prominent, very public companies, government agencies and industry groups — large banks, Sony, the FBI, stock exchanges, etc. As ideological/political entities, hacktivists, particularly … Read more
