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Hacker Commander X Says Anonymous Has Access To Every Classified U.S. Government Database
Christopher “Commander X” Doyon of the hacker group Anonymous recently gave an interview with The National Post. He was recently arrested for hacking a California government website. In the interview, Commander X claims to have access to every classified database.
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The Pirate Bay Believes Hackers Should Not Have Targeted Virgin Media
The Pirate Bay was not happy with the way that the Anonymous hackers responded to Virgin Media by launching a DDoS attack against them. Virgin Media and other United Kingdom ISPs will be blocking The Pirate Bay in an effort to curb illegal downloading. Ever since the order to block The Pirate Bay was announced, the website has launched a campaign of proxy servers called “The Hydra Bay,” which they have linked from their home page. They also gave instructions on how to create a proxy for the website that gets around the block that was created by the British ISPs.
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Anonymous Takes Down Virgin Media Website To Protest The Pirate Bay
Hacker group Anonymous has taken down Virgin Media’s main website on Tuesday to protest the company’s recent cut-off from The Pirate Bay. Anonymous took down Virgin Media’s website with a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which takes down a computer or network by saturating requests to a target machine with external communication requests to the point where the servers cannot respond to legitimate traffic. This is what Virgin Media had to say:
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Anonymous Hacks Hundreds Of Chinese Websites
Anonymous is a group of activist hackers that have taken over hundreds of Chinese websites. An Anonymous China Twitter account was created late last month and was endorsed by YourAnonNews. The account now has over 500,000 followers. On some of the hacked websites, Anonymous gave tips on how to get around the “Great Firewall of China.” Here is the English version of a message that Anonymous left:
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Old School Hackers Condemning Actions Of Anonymous
Elinor Mills at CNET wrote a great article about what old school hackers think about the actions of Anonymous, a group of new school hackers. In December 1998, a U.S. based hacker group called Legions of the Underground had declared a cyberwar on Iraq and China to protest human rights abuse in those countries by disrupting their Internet access. However the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) and a few other groups issued a statement condemning the move.
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Anonymous Supporters Back Account Information Attacked
Supporters of the hacker group Anonymous known for willingly enlisting their computers to launch DDoS attacks against their enemies may have caused their personal banking information to be vulnerable in the process. The Megaupload raid angered the Anonymous hackers and they were ready to seek revenge on the government. However an unnamed hacker took the DDoS attack tool called Slowloris, which was popular with Anonymous and rigged it with Zeus Trojan malware. The Zeus Trojan malware tool is used for siphoning the online banking credentials of their victims.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Illegally Intercepts Call Between FBI and Metro Police
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.
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Anonymous Threatens BART After Cell Service Shutdown
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.
Anonymous Declares War on Facebook, Scheduled for November 5
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]
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Anonymous Hacks Syrian Ministry of Defense Website
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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