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‘Anonymous’ attack on Chamber of Commerce website doesn’t make a dent
An effort by protest group “Anonymous” to rally Internet users into helping them shut down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website fell short Monday night as the site remained online. Unnamed members of the group, which has come to be defined by its online activities, had issued a call to…
Sony tells Congress Anonymous might be responsible for massive PlayStation hack
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) does not know who stole data from nearly 75 million customer accounts on their PlayStation and Sony Online services, but they claim to have a hunch. In an open letter to members of the U.S. House Subcomittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade, the chairman of…
Sony rebuilding PlayStation Network after breach
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – PlayStation Network has remained offline as Sony worked to rebuild the service that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to games, films, and other digital offerings. PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service were turned off April 20 in the wake of an “external intrusion,” according to…
Sony cuts deal with PlayStation 3 hacker
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Sony on Monday said a US hacker has agreed to stop breaking into PlayStation 3 (PS3) videogame consoles as part of a deal made to drop a lawsuit filed by the Japanese consumer electronics giant. “It was never my intention to cause any users trouble or…
HBGary chief tech officer: ‘Anonymous’ members are criminals and pseudo-journalists
The chief technology officer of the data security firm HBGary described the collective of hacktivists named ‘Anonymous’ as a small group of criminal hackers who “use the media as a tool.” “They are not at all what people think they are,” HBGary CTO Greg Hoglund told Robert Lemos of CSO…
‘Anonymous’ puts central banks on notice, demands Bernanke resign
Decentralized protest group “Anonymous” has encountered many foes in the past: Sarah Palin, PayPal, the Church of Scientology, MasterCard, the Westboro Baptists and even the governments of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, to name a few. But now, one of the group’s members has issued a call for perhaps their most…
Hacker group will release Bank of America emails Monday
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic toWikiLeaks, plans to release e-mails obtained from Bank of America Corp early Monday morning, according to posts on the group’s Twitter feed. The group, unrelated to the document leak website founded by Julian Assange, said it plans to release documents exposing “corruption and fraud” at…
US probes ‘Anonymous’ hacker threat over WikiLeaks soldier
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday it had requested an investigation into a hacker group’s reported cyber threat against a military base that is being used to hold a US soldier suspected of giving documents to WikiLeaks. Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the probe was requested after news that…
HBGary CEO Aaron Barr resigns amid ‘Anonymous’ scandal
The chief executive at data security firm HBGary Federal has resigned his job following a high-profile hack staged by online protest group “Anonymous.” Aaron Barr, the embattled CEO, made the disclosure yesterday speaking to ThreatPost, an online security blog. “I need to focus on taking care of my family and…
‘Anonymous’ targets the brothers Koch, claiming attempts ‘to usurp American Democracy’
The decentralized protest group “Anonymous” has a new target: no, it’s not a middle eastern dictator, a major bank or even a bit player in the military-industrial complex. It’s none other than tea party financiers Charles and David Koch, who were being targeted, an open letter stated, for their attempts…
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