Hacker group Anonymous have become a cult hit on Twitter, with 249,000 followers – but security experts Sophos warn that fans, are being tricked into becoming part of them.
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Hacker group Anonymous have become a cult hit on Twitter, with 249,000 followers – but security experts Sophos warn that fans, are being tricked into taking part in its attacks.
Hacking group Anonymous said Thursday it knocked out the websites of the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, the Recording Industry of America, Motion Picture Association of America and Universal Music as retribution for anti-piracy efforts by the government and private industry.
Anonymous hacktivists have started publishing the internal Stratfor emails in two different "teaser" edition sets.
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In the past, Anonymous has gone after opponents of Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks, but starting with the new year, the group has focused on executives who support the legislation known as SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.
As long as western governments fail to live up to their ideals, there will be those who are determined to embarrass them Over Christmas a busy, secretive group were at work, with their own views on who had been naughty and nice. However it was not Santa's elves, but the amorphous " Anonymous " collective making the decisions. This group of hackers released a vast trove of email addresses …
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