Anonymous was able to hack into a conference call between the FBI and the UK Metropolitan Police. A recording of the conference call was leaked on to the Internet. The hackers were able to secretly access the call because they had access to a compromised police investigator’s e-mail account.

On Thursday San Francisco’s BART transit system partnered with phone companies to shut down cell service at some BART stations. The signal silence lasted about three hours, an effort to quell planned public demonstrations protesting a police shooting. Online hacktivist group Anonymous did not approve, and as The Next Web reports, launched a campaign against the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit. The hackers plan to fill the email inboxes and fax machines at the BART offices with messages of outrage about the cell service shutdown and to take down the BART website, as well as staging a physical protest at Civic Center BART Station today at 5pm PST.

Hacktivist cohort Anonymous has announced a plan to take down Facebook on November 5th of this year. The Guy Fawkes Day event was announced via youtube, and proclaims to “citizens of the world” that “your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed” and urges people to “join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy.” The missive provides the hashtag #opfacebook and concludes, “this is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.” [Business Insider]

Last night the infamous hacktivist cohort Anonymous took down the Syrian Ministry of Defense’s website and replaced it with this message:

“To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Know that time and history are on your side – tyrants use violence because they have nothing else, and the more violent they are, the more fragile they become. We salute your determination to be non-violent in the face of the regime’s brutality, and admire your willingness to pursue justice, not mere revenge. All tyrants will fall, and thanks to your bravery Bashar Al-Assad is next.

To the Syrian military: You are responsible for protecting the Syrian people, and anyone who orders you to kill women, children, and the elderly deserves to be tried for treason. No outside enemy could do as much damage to Syria as Bashar Al-Assad has done. Defend your country – rise up against the regime! – Anonymous”

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Eighteen year old Jake Davis of the Shetland Islands is facing five charges that include conspiracy to mount a cyber attack against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) website. The SOCA website was forced offline on June 20th after a DDoS attack.

The hacker group Anonymous has attacked the website of the police force in Spain. The hack attack took place out of retaliation to the police arresting three Spanish individuals believed to be “core” members of the hacker group.

An observer in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel has reported to CNET that a group of hackers are planning to hit Sony once again. Sony is still recovering from an attack that was made on the PlayStation Network. The hackers involved in the case are interested in selling off some of the credit card data they stole from the PlayStation Network. The hackers plan on publicizing some or all of the information that they stole from Sony’s servers. This includes customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses. And the hackers are also claiming that they still have access to some of Sony’s servers.

Anonymous is a hacker group that often performs network attacks on major corporations or over political reasons. They have publicly stated today that they were not responsible for stealing credit card data from the Sony PlayStation Network.