Tag: lulzsec
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Prominent Hacker Who Became FBI Informant Is Released
from mashable.com: The hacker who cofounded the shadowy LulzSec group, but who then helped the U.S. government disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks while working as an FBI informant, is now a free man. A Manhattan federal district court judge granted Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known by his hacker moniker “Sabu,” a sentence of time served…
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Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists
from salon.com: Michael Hayden equates potential angry reactions to Snowden indictments to al-Qaida operations. The cyberscare, like the redscare or the greenscare of the ’90′s, is already under way. We’ve seen it take root with the fierce federal persecution of Aaron Swartz, the hefty charges and prison sentence facing LulzSec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond and the…
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LulzSec arrest in Australia
from Guardian.co.uk: Federal police charge IT worker, 24, with attacking government website and say he has claimed to be a leader of hacker group. Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with the international hacking collective LulzSec on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website. The 24-year-old senior IT worker,…
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#LulzSec hackers charged after ringleader turns #informant
LulzSec leader #Sabu was working for us, says #FBI from usatoday: Five members of the elite hacking group LulzSec have been charged with cyberattacks following an international investigation in a which a ringleader of the global organization began secretly working as an FBI informant, authorities announced today. An indictment unsealed in New York says Hector…
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8/11 Defcon: Focused Chaos, Miracle Weapons & The Facebook Op
Twitter users face arrest for inciting London looters // Mossad’s miracle weapon: Stuxnet virus opens new era of cyber war // Survey finds smartphone apps store too much personal data
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7/28 Defcon: Black Ops, Blacklist, #FuckYouWashington
Murdoch’s Fox ran black ops dept, Fmr exec claims // British telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine // Anonymous gets cyber tsar to resign // ISS to crash into the ocean in 2020 // China reportedly developing EMP weapons // Boeing’s millennium falcon floats using Nazi technology // DHS fears modified Stuxnet could attack…
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hackers take down mastercard for a second time
from raw story: The website of credit card provider MasterCard was taken offline Tuesday morning, apparently due to hacker activists trying to make a statement about the financial blockade of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. MasterCard, along with Visa, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union, have all decided to withhold funds from WikiLeaks, and the site…
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brazen hacker group lulzsec says it’s disbanding
final cache includes at&t internal data & 750k user accounts from ap: A publicity-seeking hacker group that has left a trail of sabotaged websites over the last two months, including attacks on law enforcement and releases of private data, said unexpectedly on Saturday it is dissolving itself. Lulz Security made its announcement through its Twitter…
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are lulzsec hacks work of military intelligence?
Kurt Nimmo poses crucial question in recent article, “Are LulzSec Hacker Attacks the Work of Military Intelligence?”. There are concerted “cyber terrorism” propaganda campaigns on mainstream media here and here. Russian and China are names dropped as a matter of course during discussions. Nimmo cuts to the chase, however, with simple observation, “Is it merely…
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lulzsec laughing at your security since 2011
Computer hackers Lulz Security, a loosely knit group, announced Monday their successful hack of Senate computers. Lulz is internet slang for ‘laughing out loud’. A Reuters article presents the government response. “Despite the breach, the Sergeant at Arms Office, which provides security for the Senate, said that the breach had not compromised any individual senator’s…