Hacker groups Anonymous and Lulz Security called Wednesday for a boycott of PayPal to punish the electronic payments firm for its refusal to accept donations for WikiLeaks.
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Two high profile hacker groups have called on their followers to boycott PayPal over its refusal to handle donations to Wikileaks.
Lulz Security, Anonymous and WikiLeaks are among those vying for the top award.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official responsible for defending US government networks against cyberattacks resigned on Monday.
Lulz Security, Anonymous criticize government, companies
Global hacker collective “Anonymous Operations” together with “Lulz Security” issued a statement to the FBI and other international authorities.
Hackers affiliated with the “AntiSec” movement claim to have breached security systems of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), and stolen “about one gigabyte” of restricted data, according to a post on the @AnonymousIRC Twitter feed. The AntiSec hackers include members of the two most notorious groups on the scene: Anonymous and Lulz Security (LulzSec).
LulzSec, also known as Lulz Security, is an anonymous hacker group that has broken into the website for The Sun newspaper. British daily newspaper The Sun is owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is involved in a wide-ranging phone hacking scandal, reports The Vancouver Sun. The first attack came on Monday afternoon, after the hackers redirected visitors to thesun.co.uk to a fake report of …
News International pulled down the main Times and Sun websites yesterday after a fake ‘Murdoch dead’ news story was been placed on the Sun website after a hack by Lulz Security.
The activist hacker group Lulz Security, which announced its retirement in June, resurfaced Monday evening with media mogul Rupert Murdoch as its latest target.