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The rogue hacktivist movement Anonymous is apparently breaking out the Low Orbit Ion Cannon again for a reprise of the Operation Payback campaign, this time setting their distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack sites on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The campaign to disrupt the RIAA website is reminiscent of Anonymous' earlier missions to protest actions taken by anti-piracy interests seeking to enforce copyright infringement sanctions. The RIAA is seeking trillions of dollars in damages from the P2P file-sharing network LimeWire for facilitating copyright infractions. Federal Judge Kimba Wood has already indicated she believes that the logic behind the RIAA calculations of the damages sought in the case is flawed, according to Computerworld. "If Plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory damage theory based on the number of direct infringers per work, Defendants' damages could reach into the trillions," Judge Wood wrote. Nonethele

Chinese hackers suspected in compromise of Australian PM 's computer The parliamentary computers of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and at least two other senior ministers are suspected of being hacked. Ms Gillard's parliamentary computer, along with those of several cabinet ministers including Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Minister Stephen Smith were believed to have been compromised, News Ltd newspapers report. Thousands of emails are believed to have been accessed in the cyber attacks. Advertisement: Story continues below Four Australian government sources confirmed with the newspapers they had been told Chinese intelligence agencies were part of a list of suspected hackers. US intelligence officials alerted their Australian counterparts and News Ltd believes ASIO has started an investigation. The cyber attacks are believed to be on the Australian Parliament House email network, the less secure of two networks used by MPs. Ministers use a departmental network for more

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Jordan's opposition Islamic Action Front party said Sunday its website has been hacked, a day after it called for the ouster of the prime minister over a deadly crackdown on protesters. "The content of the website has been replaced with slogans and statements, clearly showing that an official party is behind the hacking," IAF chief Hamzah Mansur told AFP. He did not identify who hacked the website. "We condemn this action, but we in Jordan are used to such attacks against freedom of expression and the press." Calling themselves "JH-Team," the hackers have posted a picture of King Abdullah II, quoting a 2009 address of the monarch as saying that "those who talk about threatening Jordan, its identity, stability and national unity do not know the kingdom, its people and their history." "We will continue to hack the website and all sites for your lying, loser and mean party," said a statement on the Islamists' website. On F

New Zealand Government 's sites bringing down by Anonymous ! Online hacktivists Anonymous have been accused of bringing down the New Zealand Government's Department of Internal Affairs last week – or perhaps they haven't. The main website : https://www.dia.govt.nz/ has now been restored to service, with some other related sites also affected. The Department described the outages as "very unusual" but has yet to identify the problem behind the downtime. On Friday the Department of Internal Affairs Deputy Chief Executive Stephen Crombie hosed down speculation that it was a DDoS attack from Anonymous, as widely speculated. "There are always threats and risks to websites. We have no reason to believe that the problem is linked to any particular threat, or even that it involves any hostile action at all," he said. In February Anonymous posted a video denouncing the New Zealand government's decision to implement an internet filter and threatened to initiate a coordinated DDoS attack

Comodo Hacker - " Comodogate " Iranian hacker claims all internet is insecure Message By Comodo Hacker :  Hello I'm writing this to the world, so you'll know more about me.. At first I want to give some points, so you'll be sure I'm the hacker: I hacked Comodo from InstantSSL.it, their CEO's e-mail address mfpenco@mfpenco.com Their Comodo username/password was: user: gtadmin password: [trimmed] Their DB name was: globaltrust and instantsslcms GlobalTrust.it had a dll called TrustDLL.dll for handling Comodo requests, they had resellers and their url was: https://www.globaltrust.it/reseller_admin/ Enough said, huh? Yes, enough said, someone who should know already knows...Am I right Mr. Abdulhayoglu? Anyway, at first I should mention we have no relation to Iranian Cyber Army, we don't change DNSes, we  just hack and own. I see Comodo CEO and others wrote that it was a managed attack, it was a planned attack, a group of  cyber criminals did i