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The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication. Instead publishers of secret information grab it directly for posting to Torrent for anybody to access without mediation and mark-up by self-esteemed peddlers of protection, interpretationa and authentication, including media cum scholars. Ars Technica descriptions of the how the Anonymous hack are the best technical reading of Internet derring-do yet and far exceeds the much simpler rhetorical version of WikiLeaks security carefully bruited as if invulnerable but is not according to Daniel Domscheit-Berg's revelations. AnonLeaks.ru  is a remarkable advance of WikiLeaks. And promises much more by the same means and methods most associated with official spies -- NSA and CIA have long...

The Anonymous attack on HBGary may have amused some who enjoyed the sight of a security firm left embarrassed and exposed, but it should send a shiver down the spine of any IT administrator responsible for securing their own company. Because can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say a hack like the one against HBGary couldn't happen at your organisation too? As Ars Technica explains, a weakness in a third-party CMS product used by HBGary's website allowed Anonymous hackers to steal passwords that employees used to update the webpages. Unfortunately they were passwords that weren't encrypted strongly enough, and were possible to crack with a rainbow-table based attack. Amongst those exposed were CEO Aaron Barr and COO Ted Vera. Worse still, it appears that Aaron Barr and Ted Vera were using the same passwords for their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, and even for an account which administered the entire company's email. By exploiting software vulnerabilities,...

The Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) has confirmed that its website was hacked last night by an unknown attacker. Major Abdul Raheem today confirmed that the MNDF was made aware of an attack this morning after checking its website. "Currently our website is down, and we are trying to fix it," he said. "so far, he have not been able to identify any person related to the case but we are investigating." Cyber Crime has become a growing concern to Maldivian authorities of late; especially in terms of the number of minors thought to be involved in practices like hacking. Earlier this year, Dhiraagu become the latest high profile victim of Maldivian cyber crime after facing continued attacks on its servers. The Maldives Police Service arrested four individuals suspected of involvement with the January attacks after conducting special operations at addresses both in Male' and Addu Atoll. Three of the suspects then arrested were confirmed to be under 18 years of age. Police sai...

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security's ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes. As part of "Operation Save Our Children" ICE's Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error. Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their domain. "Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution," was the worrying message they read on their websites. As with prev...

Operacion Tequila announced By Anonymous Hackers ! Statement from Anonymous on Operation Tequila  Anonymous is a group of independent individuals without a leader. We would like to present to the Mexican people and the world, our collective decisions and thoughts through the following statement.  Anonymous are ordinary people who fight for free-speech both on and off the internet. We have been treated as if we were puppets, without the right to protest or demand anything. We are fed up and we rebel against a system that considers us asleep and submissive, that believes that his actions would go unpunished and that truths would be hidden forever. This system is the same that punished without any hesitation the ones who tried to bring the truth to light. For  this reason alone, the unconditional defense of free-speech,  we understand that the traditional media, in collusion with the  government responsible for neglecting the social reality of the country  ...