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When the Egyptian government decided to flip the switch on its country's Internet on Jan. 27, news of the unprecedented shut down spread rapidly. Rumors that the same thing has happened today in Algeria are unfounded, even though the country has been on the radar for a possible "domino effect" of events in Tunisia and Egypt. Internet intelligence authority Renesys, which confirmed the Egypt outage weeks ago, says in a new blog post that it has no evidence that Algeria's Internet has been shut down. Algeria typically has about 135 routed network prefixes in the global routing table, and our data show that they are all still routed and relatively stable. Traceroutes inbound confirm that sites hosted in these prefixes are still alive, and spot checks of websites hosted in Algeria show that most are up and functioning normally.  It's possible, that there are some Internet blocks not visible to outside the country, similar to Iranian-style throttling, but that ca...

Data released as part of a hacking attack by the Anonymous group has shown what appears to be a corporate plan to destroy WikiLeaks. Last week Aaron Barr, head of security services firm HBGary Federal, claimed to have infiltrated the Anonymous hacking group leadership and was able to identify key players. Less than 24 hours later the group attacked HBGary Federal's servers and posted their contents on file sharing sites. An analysis of the contents revealed what appears to be a proposal, written for leading US legal firm Hunton & Williams by HBGary Federal, on how to bring down WikiLeaks through a combination of hacking and disinformation. It was prepared in conjunction with data analysis firms Palantir Technologies and consultants Berico Technologies The document suggests a campaign of misinformation involving feeding false documents into WikiLeaks and then exposing them to discredit the site's output. Hacking attacks against the central WikiLeaks document server i...

Anonymous Hackers said : We can Delete the Censorship from The World ! In Italian : La censura di internet stà invadendo il mondo. Gli stati non censurati stanno scomparendo. Dobbiamo rovesciare questa situazione! We Are Anonymus. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Contribuisci alle operazioni del gruppo Anonymous e aiuterai a rendere libero il mondo. In English : Censorship of the Internet is invading the world. The states which is uncensored are disappearing. We must reverse this situation! We Are Anonymus. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Contribute to the operations of the group Anonymous and help in freeing the world. In Spanish : La censura de Internet está invadiendo el mundo. Los estados estándesapareciendo sin censura. Tenemos que revertir esta situación! Somos Anonymus. Somos legión. Nosotros no perdonamos. No nos olvidamos.Esperan de nosotros. Contribuir a las operaciones del grupo anónimo y a...

Anonymous Hackers announce Operation Italy ( #OPITALY ) on 13.02.2011 at 9am GMT (10.00 italian time) Press Release : Operation Iran - Press release by Anonymous Hackers LOIC :  https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/downloads Mobile/Js LOIC :  https://pastehtml.com/view/1cy9mud.html Reasons :  https://3.ly/hfK4 Cables :  https://3.ly/Ht4e Source : Google

Message Released from Anonymous Hackers to Royal Dutch Shell ! Anonymous Hackers just now upload a Video on Youtube to give a Message to 'Royal Dutch Shell'.. Have a look : Link :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEDrxJWAqk

The city crime branch hasregistered an FIR based on allegation by Rais Khan, a formeraide of social activist Teesta Setalwad, that his emailaccount was hacked. "An FIR has been registered in connection with thealleged hacking of email account of Khan," DCP crime branchHimanshu Shukla told PTI. The FIR was filed after Khan, in an application tocity Police Commissioner last year, had alleged that his emailaccount was hacked by Setalvad, Shukla said. However, he clarified that Setalvad''s name was not inthe FIR with regard to Khan''s allegation, and the matter wasunder investigation. In his application to the city Police Commissioner inSeptember last year, Khan had alleged that Setalvad, convenerof Centre for Justice and Peace (CJP), had hacked his email,after he parted ways with the organisation in 2008. After riots in 2002, Khan had worked as co-ordinatorwith CJP, headed by Setalvad, from February 28, 2002 toJanuary 18, 2008. Khan had further alle...

‎Operation Iran ( #OPIRAN ) - Anonymous Next Target may be Irna.ir & Leader.ir ! Anonymous Hackers announce there next Ddos Target : TARGETS: irna.ir (PRIMARY) leader.ir irib.ir IN THIS ORDER FIRE NOW ! check MAY BE BLOCKED; THEY IPBLOCK, SO THE SITE MAY NOT ACTUALLY BE DOWN HIVE: loic.anonops.in PORT = 6667 channel irc: //irc.anonops.ru/#loic LOIC:   https://3.ly/77Dy PRESS:   https://bit.ly/dUe5Bw REASONS  : https://bit.ly/h9CYzB Also Read :   Leader.ir Next Target by Anonymous at 11.02.2011 at 18.00 !! : The Hacker News

Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in Sweden on rape and coercion allegations stemming from sexual relations he had with two women in that country last August. One woman has claimed that Assange pinned her down to have sex with her and intentionally tore a condom he wore. The second woman claims that he had sex with her while she was initially asleep, failing to wear a condom despite repeated requests for him to do so. Assange has disputed their claims. Assange's attorneys have argued that Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny had abused the Swedish and U.K. legal process by attempting to extradite Assange without charging him with a crime, and for alleged offenses that are not subject to extradition. They contradicted Ny's assertion that ...

Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target in that country, according to a new report from security researchers. The five organizations, believed to be the first that were infected with the worm, were targeted in five separate attacks over a number of months in 2009 and 2010, before Stuxnet was discovered in June 2010 and publicly exposed. Stuxnet spread from these organizations into other organizations on its way to its final target, which is believed to have been a nuclear enrichment facility or facilities in Iran. "These five organizations were infected, and from those five computers Stuxnet spread out — not to just computers in those organizations, but to other computes as well," says Liam O Murchu, manager of operations for Symantec Security Response. "It all started with those five original domains." The new information comes in an updated report from resea...

Two data intelligence firms that decided to cooperate with HBGary's plot to sabotage WikiLeaks have severed ties. Berico Technologies severed ties in the afternoon on February 11 and early in the morning on February 11 Palantir Technologies severed all ties and issued an apology. Dr. Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies,apologized, saying according to the  Tech Herald : "I have made clear in no uncertain terms that Palantir Technologies will not be involved in such activities. Moreover, we as a company, and I as an individual, always have been deeply involved in supporting progressive values and causes. We plan to continue these efforts in the future… …The right to free speech and the right to privacy are critical to a flourishing democracy. From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties. Furthermore, personally and on behalf of the ...

" Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are avalable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), and a u...