Hacker group Anonymous claims attack on Mercer firm

The international computer hacker network that calls itself Anonymous claimed Tuesday to have shut down the website of a Mercer County company that has been supplying the tear gas used by Egyptian forces to quell protests in that country.


The hackers, who say they struck in honor of the anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain on Feb. 14, 2011, the first of the "Arab spring" revolutions across the Middle East, said they wiped out the company's Web servers and released names, email passwords and identifying information of its employees.

UFC president hacked after scrapping with Anonymous

Dana White loves a good fight.
But the Ultimate Fighting Championship president may have second thoughts about mixing it up with members of the hacker collective Anonymous on Thursday night on Twitter, where he was on the receiving end of a brutal punch.
White's personal information, including his Social Security number, cellphone number and address, was published online just moments after the exchange, in which he defended his company's support of the controversial -- and now-shelved -- Stop Online Piracy Act.


The UFC's website was also hacked for the second time in a week.


The mixed-martial-arts promoter's parent company was a supporter of SOPA, which was intended to crack down on digital piracy. The company, Zuffa, says many of its fights are posted illegally online, either for free or with the pirate sites selling advertising on them.


The back-and-forth kicked off shortly after 9 p.m. when one of the more popular Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous called out White -- an avid Twitter user -- for comments he made in a recent interview.

'Anonymous' hackers attack Brazilian websites

RIO DE JANEIRO — The computer hacker group Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district Saturday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com.
Anonymous posted messages on Twitter describing attacks against hundreds of Brazilian sites that share the URL 'df.gov.br,' which are owned by the government of the federal capital in Rio de Janeiro.
The Federal District press office denied Saturday that the hackers succeeded in shutting down the websites.The Internet news site G1, owned by television network Globo, confirmed the early morning computer attacks but said the Federal District's 24-hour-a-day information technology team was able to stop them.

Anonymous hacker group plans for Sony attack?

Sony executives must be feeling the heat after hacker group Anonymous declared that they might just have a look at Sony’s servers to see if everything is up to par, probing for any defences that are ancient while looking out for weak links that they can exploit, no thanks to Sony’s declaration of support of SOPA. SC Magazine reports that Sony.com and the Sony Music store are the intended targets – I guess as long as they do not mess around with the PSN network, then the furore or outrage would not be that much, either. According to ‘hacktivists’ from the Anonymous

Hackers DDoS Israel websites, will expose Norton source code tomorrow

Fueled by anti-government sentiment, hackers continue their string of attacks against Israel. On Monday, a distributed denial of service attack was launched against two websites: the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national Israeli airline. The DDoS attack successfully brought down both online destinations.


As of the time of this writing, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange website states "Please try again later. The site is too busy right now." while El Al appears to have resumed normal operation.

Anonymous targets Israel as it joins war between hackers

Anonymous has posted what appear to be login details for Israeli SCADA industrial-control systems, a cyber attack that marks the politically minded group's entrance into the heated battle between Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers that has already exposed thousands of credit card numbers and personal details.
A new Twitter account, @FuryOfAnon, posted a message Wednesday that said, "Who wanna have some fun with israeli scada systems." Included in the taunt was a Pastebin link showing what purport to be 10 IP addresses and logins for Israeli supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Industrial-control facilities, including nuclear power and water treatment plants, use SCADA software to control and automate machinery. The infamous Stuxnet worm hijacked the SCADA system at an Iranian nuclear-fuel processing plant in July 2010.

Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Up Arms in SOPA Battle

The "hacktivist" network known as Anonymous has stepped into the fray in the battle among legacy media companies, Internet firms, and politicians over the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).


The controversial proposed legislation would make it more difficult for websites to display pirated content, but many tech companies -- including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and others -- argue that it is overkill, and would unfairly restrict information-sharing.

Stratfor CEO: Data wasn't encrypted, and hackers made multiple attacks

The CEO of Stratfor acknowledged Wednesday that the Austin company failed to encrypt the data that was taken by hackers last month and said the hackers actually made multiple attacks on Stratfor's servers.


Stratfor, which publishes geopolitical analysis, has said hackers took its website down on Christmas. The site has been restored with bolstered security, Stratfor CEO George Friedman said in a Wednesday interview with the American-Statesman.

Israeli government vows to catch Saudi hacker teen who published thousands of credit card numbers, personal data

Hacker claims to have released 400,000 credit card numbers and supposedly has a million more

The Israeli government has vowed to go after a 19-year-old Saudi who posted thousands of credit card numbers and claims to have a million more he's itching to publish.

Anonymous Hacker Group Hacks Symantec’s 2 Antivirus Products

A hacker group, Anonymous from India, has now attacked Symantec after hacking the official data of security analyst firm Stratfor. Symantec officials informed that hackers have stolen the source code of their two anti-virus products which were created five to six years back.
They got know about the theft on Wednesday when they uploaded a latest trophy on the internet forum. They found documentation of two anti-viruses on their website. When they checked it with their experts, they found the source code hacked.

Saudi Hackers Post Israeli Credit Card Numbers Online

A group of Saudi hackers dubbed Group-XP claimed on Monday to have posted the personal information of nearly half a million Israelis online, though credit card companies said the number of compromised records is actually much lower.

The hackers said they broke into one of Israel's top sports Web sites, One.co.il, and redirected visitors to a site where they could download a file containing the personal information of 400,000 Israelis. According to one member of the group, the information included credit card details, including expiration dates and security codes listed on the back of the cards, as well as victims' names, addresses, mobile and home phone numbers, and Social Security numbers.

German Neo Nazi Sites Hacked

Computer hackers from the Anonymous Operations “hacktivist” collective, attacked several German neo-Nazi websites around New Year’s Day. While the group’s attacks forced several right-wing Internet portals to shut down, the hackers captured customer data from other neo-Nazi sites.
On the newly created site Nazi-Leaks.net the hackers published personal data they took from right-wing websites from mail order, newspapers, and networks in an effort to expose neo-Nazi sympathizer and activists, reported German public broadcaster ARD. The published names include high-ranking politicians of the Bavarian wing of the ruling Christian Democrats who subscribe to a right-wing weekly newspaper.

Anonymous imposters: hiding behind the AntiSec identity

Anyone can say they're part of Anonymous.


It's the perfect cover for hackers with motives more sinister than fun and propaganda.


Could that be why private intelligence firm Stratfor was just hacked?


The Operation AntiSec collaborators Anonymous and LulzSec dominated media coverage of online security through 2011, taking credit for hacks of Sony, AT&T, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and News International newspapers - even though the more serious cybercriminals continued working on the money-spinners.