Anonops #16: Snowden leaked it all, who is next?

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Anonymous Hacks World Trade Organization, leaks personal data of thousands of officials

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Keeping Anonymous hackers out from news is simply impossible, the hacktivist movement is active 24 x 7 and you can always expect them to drop their cyber bomb on anyone at anytime — Just like today when WTO is under attack by Anonymous.


One of the hacktivist leading Anonymous movement on Twitter just breached the World Trade organization’s website and leaked its database along with personal data of thousands of its members from around the world.

In an exclusive conversation with Anonymous, HackRead was told that the method used for breaching WTO website was simple SQL injection and the site has a lot of data to download.

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AnonymousGlobo twitterde op dinsdag 05-05-2015 om 05:18:11 You remember from the @BaltimorePolice emails. Here are the passwords of emails. Enjoy http://t.co/mDXmfdd4t8 U mad bro? #Anonymous #AntiSec reageer retweet

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Anonymous hacktivist warned Texas police days before Mohammed cartoon contest shooting

At 5:37pm on Friday, 1 May, a Twitter user affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist group tweeted to the Garland Police Department's official Twitter account, warning them of a potential Islamic State attack in Texas.

The warning fell on deaf ears and two days later Elton Simpson (30), and his roommate, Nadir Soofi (34), from Phoenix, Arizona, opened fire on an unarmed security guard at the Curtis Culwell Center outside a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The woman, who has spoken to the Daily Dot, lives outside the US but is part of a growing army of online activists -- some of whom at affiliated with Anonymous -- who have taken it upon themselves to seek out and highlight social media accounts and website linked to Islamic State in a bid to get them taken offline.

The Twitter user came across the @AnsarAlUmmah49 account and in particular a message which was referencing an upcoming attack in Garland. The Anonymous member tried to alert the Garland police to the potential threat by sending a message to its Twitter account.

That message was never seen it appears, with Garland Police Department spokesman Jon Darn telling the Daily Dot: "That is the first time I've heard that" when asked about the message, adding: "We were monitoring things; we had the FBI and ATF, but we didn't see anything [on Twitter]."

It has been revealed that Simpson flagged his actions on Twitter ahead of the attack. "May Allah accept us as the mujahideen," Simpson tweeted adding that he and Soofi pledged loyalty to "Amirul Mu'mineen" (the leader of the faithful), which officials believe referred to Isis leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.

The shootings took place at an event entitled Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest which was organised under the banner of free speech but was always likely to provoke a reaction from Muslims who find such depictions blasphemous -- and directly links to the Charlie Hedbo attacks in Paris in January.

Under the banner #OpIsis, online activists have collated tens of thousands of Twitter and Facebook accounts which are linked to Isis and have been successful in getting a significant number of these taken offline.

However intelligence agencies have criticised these online campaigns by claiming that taking down websites and social media accounts associated with the jihadist group is shutting down a key source of intelligence gathering.

This argument has been frequently dismissed by Anonymous, who claim that the vast majority of these accounts and websites are used to spread propaganda with the hope of recruiting more people to its cause -- not to communicate valuable military strategic information.

Bron: www.ibtimes.co.uk

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#Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn

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DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow of what worked, what didn’t, and what the hacker thinks of the NSA security (hint: not much). Turns out, the NSA doesn’t even maintain its own email server: they’ve outsourced that to Qwest.

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Pirate Party activist and Cryptosphere contributor Raymond Johansen shared the original tweet to Facebook when the Paste had 327 views. The tweet contains a live link to the Pastebin, of course.

Within eight minutes, he reports, the Pastebin had been taken down. “THEN they read me laughing at them for even trying.” Someone posted a link to the Google cache of the missing paste in the comments on Facebook, at which point the paste apparently re-materialized. “Within a minute of that the original paste is back up AGAIN – the NSA realizing I am making them look like class fulz. THAT moment is the single most ROFL inducing PSML unavoidable moment of my life. It is Anonspeak for “we know we fckd lets unfck ourself” – all the while actually doublefcking themselves – royally.”

The paste may have been tampered with in the interim, says Johansen. “The [second] paste we saw, maybe 12 hours old, had strange garbage on the end. IMO it has been tinkered with and I myself will not visit that pastebin – because OpSec.”

“AnonIntelGroup posted ‘Bring the Lulz back!’ a week ago. ‘Mission accompli!’ – I would say.”

Within three hours of that, however, Johansen noticed that the Facebook post itself was missing from his timeline, missing from his Timeline Review, and had been removed from all the groups and pages to which he had shared it. Gone, too, were the comments. He then made a new post, explaining the elision, which was screenshotted and linked above. The Cryptosphere was able to confirm independently via email updates that the original post existed, and was subsequently scrubbed by Facebook.

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Vanguard unit of hacktivists Anonymous meets ′Islamic State′ on cyberfront | News | DW.DE | 05.06.2015

In recent months, a self-described "elite branch" of the hacktivist group Anonymous has upped the ante in the fight against "Islamic State" (IS). In a statement, Ghost Security (GhostSec) announced its intent to "eliminate every piece of ISIS propaganda from the Internet in an effort to slow down ISIS recruitment online."

The group employs a more rigid organizational structure than the loosely knit umbrella group Anonymous, with ranking roles such as special operations and a quick reaction force capable of responding to developing situations at any moment.

"GhostSec operates like a military unit, with members responsible for intelligence gathering, organizing, logistics, and, of course, those operating the weapons, digital weapons that is," the group announced in one of various statements it has posted online.

Anonymous, a multinational network of politically inclined hackers, is well-known for its online exploits such as taking on the Church of Scientology to protest the religion's efforts to censor its critics, PayPal for refusing to process donations to the whistleblowers WikiLeaks, and even sites belonging to the governments of Mexico, Syria and Israel, among other states, for various affronts and human rights abuses cited by the group. The hackers most commonly use a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, which overwhelms websites with traffic and makes them temporarily unavailable.

GhostSec's efforts against IS, however, mark the first time members of the activist group have actively pursued terrorist elements. And, further to the point, GhostSec has called its anti-IS operation, also known as #OpISIS or #OpIceISIS, the "largest endeavor in the history of Anonymous."

'Split' over Charlie Hebdo

In August 2014, the month the US government outlined its strategy to curb IS's digital presence, Anonymous announced #OpISIS. However, the operation did not garner significant support even within the group until 2015.

Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, embedded herself in Anonymous to research her book "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous." Coleman told DW that the attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January marked a turning point for the group.

"There is a chain of events that can help explain what happened. And it's basically Charlie Hebdo. It was a real kind of dramatic event that also split the Anonymous community," Coleman said.

On January 11, days after the attack in Paris, DigitaShadow, a ranking "operations" figure in GhostSec, announced the assault on IS.

"This is also the period of time when ISIS was gaining more visibility ... I don't think the operation would have happened without Charlie Hebdo, which then had this censorship angle, which is such a bread-and-butter issue for Anonymous," Coleman said.

Coleman said Anonymous, as "an open-source name," would naturally have many factions whose interests do not always necessarily align.

"What is interesting about this phenomenon is that you don't need coherence among the different groups. In fact, it's kind of expected that there will be serious divergences in opinion," Coleman said.

In online posts, GhostSec has acknowledged criticism of its actions, stating that "since its beginning there have been some that disapprove of what we are doing." Meanwhile, the group has taken proactive steps to elucidate its actions through video press releases and statements, alongside reporting its daily activities against IS.

'These unforgivable crimes'

Anonymous has gone to great lengths to impede IS's digital presence, especially its online recruiting via social media platforms.

"The Islamic State has ambitions to circumvent free speech and the Internet with the formation of a cyber caliphate designed to impose censorship upon all citizens of the world. In retaliation to these unforgivable crimes, we have decided to engage the Islamic State," GhostSec announced in a statement.

By May 8, after nearly four months of the operation, more than 500 IS websites had been attacked and 100 of them were "permanently offline," according to a damage report. Websites affiliated with IS were shut down 68 times in May, and GhostSec has closed 15 in the first week of June so far, according to attacks reported by group.

WauchulaGhost, a senior ranking "special operations" figure, told DW that suspected IS accounts and websites are cross-checked to determine threat potential before an attack.

"We use automation after users are added to the database. However, we do verify every single one of them with a well established team of 'hunters.' So no accounts are entered into the database without some eyes trained to spot Islamic State sympathizers or actual militants by content tweeted and behavior patterns," WauchulaGhost said.

WauchulaGhost added that information regarding threats is provided to the "nation it pertains to," while websites are scanned for intelligence before being shutdown.

"After critical information is extracted we take the websites down but recently sites that we are attacking are running to CloudFlare (website security company) for protection," WauchulaGhost noted.

GhostSec has also brought attention to US-based company CloudFlare for "protecting" IS websites.

GhostSec's vigilante cyberoffensive has its work cut out for it. IS has flourished online, employing a so-far-successful cyberstrategy to lure potential supporters.

In 2014, more than 11,902 IS Twitter accounts were created, according to research conducted by the Brookings Institution. Between September and December, more than 40,000 Twitter accounts were logged as supporting IS, although not all were active at the same time.

As social media platforms and governments struggle to cope with the growing online presence of the Islamic State, GhostSec appears prepared to continue acting beyond the confines of legality to "dismantle" the group's digital infrastructure.

"It’s a long battle that we intend to win. If you fight and give up, your opponent will take you, however, we will not stop and ISIS knows that," WauchulaGhost told DW.

Terrorist organization "Islamic State" is more than just simply savvy when it comes to using the internet as a propaganda tool. But what can be used to fight against such a profound social media strategy and smart users? (03.06.2015)

"Islamic State" is not only a threat on the battlefield, but also on the Internet, writes Kyle Matthews from the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. (28.05.2015)

Armed gunmen have stormed the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. As many as 12 people are reported to have been killed in the incident. (07.01.2015)

"Islamic State" is not only a threat on the battlefield, but also on the Internet, writes Kyle Matthews from the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.

France's global network TV5Monde was taken off the air by self-styled "Islamic State" cyberjihadists for 18 hours. The hacking attack was "unprecedented in the history of television," the company says.

High-ranking officials from around the world will meet at the White House this week to discuss methods to combat violent extremism. The summit follows in the wake of recent terror attacks in Denmark, Libya and France.

The Journal from DW presents the most important news - up-to-date, in brief and quickly.
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Anonymous Has Been Hacking US Government Sites Since Last December

The FBI has released an official memo indicating that hackers related to Anonymous have been accessing federal government computers in various agencies for almost a year and stealing data.

Reuters viewed a copy of the memo, which was sent around the FBI on Thursday. The attacks came as the result of an exploit in Adobe software that allowed Anonymous hackers to plant backdoors in the computers they had infiltrated and then return at their leisure, apparently as recently as last month.

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. The memo, distributed on Thursday, described the attacks as "a widespread problem that should be addressed." It said the breach affected the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and perhaps many more agencies.


Stolen data from the attacks includes information about government employees and their family members. The hackers also stole banking data. Reuters reports that the attacks have been connected to Lauri Love, a British hacker who was indicted in October for alleged hacking into US government agencies.

Reuters reports that an FBI spokeswoman "declined to elaborate" on the situation. Naturally. [Reuters]

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Anonymous Claims It Leaked Passwords and Credit Card Info of Canadian Officials | Motherboard

Members of Anonymous are claiming responsibility for leaking an apparent trove of personal data that includes the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card information of government employees.

The information is alleged to have been dumped from the online database of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Society of Canada, and was posted online shortly before noon on Tuesday.

Although the leak has not been officially confirmed, it includes private sector companies and industry groups, as well as employees from a swath of transportation-related government departments from municipal governments in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary; provincial governments of Ontario and Alberta; and federal departments such as Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, Environment Canada and Transport Canada.

If true, it would be the the third attack under what Anonymous has deemed #OpCyberPrivacy, which according to a member named ro0ted "is retaliation for the passing of Bill C51”—a controversial piece of anti-terrorism legislation recently signed into law.

In the group’s chatroom, ro0ted claimed to still have access to the site when contacted by Motherboard Tuesday afternoon, about three hours after the database was first posted to a document sharing website. The user declined to say how long Anonymous had access to the site, nor how many people were involved in the attack.

A voicemail message left with ITS Canada’s administrative manager Janneke Poelking has yet to be returned.

Those responsible claimed that everything in the database was stored in plaintext, or unencrypted. Passwords, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and what appears to be the financial amounts of transactions can all be readily identified in the dump.

A company called Biz-One, which is listed as the developer of the website, had yet to respond to a request for comment at the time of publication. Motherboard left a voicemail message with its president and CEO Julie King.

In the group's first #OpCyberPrivacy attack, several federal government websites—including the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, were rendered temporarily inaccessible in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

For the group's second attack, the website of la Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal was defaced.

The group said it has a list of future targets, but no schedule for attacks. One user who went by the name of Doemela in the chatroom said that the attackers "scan domains beloging [sic] to Canada" and "when there is a vulnerability it is investigated further."

"We said we would respond in order to prevent the NSA and other intelligence contractors from the further invasion of our privacy and violation of our rights," Doemela said.

Bron: motherboard.vice.com

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How big is Anonymous? Maybe bigger than you thought

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An analysis from a University of Copenhagen graduate student suggests the online-phenomenon-turned-protest movement is more globally connected on the Web than previously thought.

The actual size and reach of the shadowy hacktivist collective Anonymous has long been the fodder of online squabbles. It's diminished by detractors and puffed up by ardent devotees.

So, a University of Copenhagen graduate student set out to determine the actual extent of Anonymous' influence around the world. And, it turns out that Anonymous appears to have a wider scope and is more international than previously imagined.

Even academics who study Anonymous were surprised. "The Anonymous network is larger than many of us thought," said Gabriella Coleman, an anthropology professor at McGill University and author of "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous."

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Anonymous in Cyberwar With Canadian Gov't After Mountie Killed Activist

On Monday, hacktivists said they had stepped up their operation to gain access to Canadian government secrets after a mounted police officer shot and killed an activist at an environmental protest in BC.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The million-strong army of Anonymous group hacktivists is waging a cyberwar on Canadian authorities and law enforcers after a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer fatally shot an activist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask at an environmental protest in British Columbia last week.

The shooting in Dawson Creek, which Anonymous says was unprovoked, triggered a vehement response from the group, who launched a massive cyberoperation codenamed AnonDown to force Canadian police to reveal the identity of the shooter.

The declaration of war on Saturday was followed by a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on RCMP web pages the next day, including on its national website, the Dawson Creek affiliate site and the RCMP Heritage Center page.

On Monday, hacktivists said they had stepped up the operation to gain access to government secrets. "AnonDown has accessed docs marked ‘secret’ inside Canadian government. It's not just a DDoS op anymore kiddos," the activists said in a taunting tweet.

Bron: sputniknews.com

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The end of capitalism has begun

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During and right after the second world war, economists viewed information simply as a "public good". The US government even decreed that no profit should be made out of patents, only from the production process itself. Then we began to understand intellectual property. In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream economics, said that in a free market economy the purpose of inventing things is to create intellectual property rights. He noted: "precisely to the extent that it is successful there is an underutilisation of information."

You can observe the truth of this in every e-business model ever constructed: monopolise and protect data, capture the free social data generated by user interaction, push commercial forces into areas of data production that were non-commercial before, mine the existing data for predictive value - always and everywhere ensuring nobody but the corporation can utilise the results.

If we restate Arrow's principle in reverse, its revolutionary implications are obvious: if a free market economy plus intellectual property leads to the "underutilisation of information", then an economy based on the full utilisation of information cannot tolerate the free market or absolute intellectual property rights. The business models of all our modern digital giants are designed to prevent the abundance of information.

Yet information is abundant. Information goods are freely replicable. Once a thing is made, it can be copied/pasted infinitely. A music track or the giant database you use to build an airliner has a production cost; but its cost of reproduction falls towards zero. Therefore, if the normal price mechanism of capitalism prevails over time, its price will fall towards zero, too.

For the past 25 years economics has been wrestling with this problem: all mainstream economics proceeds from a condition of scarcity, yet the most dynamic force in our modern world is abundant and, as hippy genius Stewart Brand once put it, "wants to be free".

There is, alongside the world of monopolised information and surveillance created by corporations and governments, a different dynamic growing up around information: information as a social good, free at the point of use, incapable of being owned or exploited or priced. I've surveyed the attempts by economists and business gurus to build a framework to understand the dynamics of an economy based on abundant, socially-held information. But it was actually imagined by one 19th-century economist in the era of the telegraph and the steam engine. His name? Karl Marx.

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Anonymous targets IS sympathisers on Twitter - BBC News

Hacktivist group Anonymous is ramping up efforts to tackle sympathisers of the Islamic State group on Twitter.


It has published a list of Twitter accounts it claims are spreading propaganda in support of the group.

Some accounts have been flooded with images of Japanese anime characters to try to influence search engine results for phrases connected to IS.

Many other accounts have been suspended or shut down as a result of the group's actions.

As well as targeting Twitter accounts, the operation also sought to take down Facebook pages, blogs, websites and web proxies used by supposed IS supporters.

The publication of the list is the latest in a series of "operations" by Anonymous and others hacktivist organisations against the IS group and its online supporters.

The list of more than 750 Twitter accounts that Anonymous has taken action against was published on the Pastebin website. Top of the list were accounts that had more than 10,000 followers, it said, but many others with smaller numbers of readers were also targeted.

Some accounts that Anonymous members won access to had their messages and images changed to show the ISIS-Chan anime character. Groups tackling IS propaganda online are starting to use images of the young girl in connection with the group's name and slogans in an attempt to dilute the results people get when they search for information about the group.

The Anonymous action comes after UK Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled a strategy to help tackle the "poison" of extremism. The package of measures included demands that ISPs and net firms do more to remove extremist material and identify who posted it.

It is not clear how much effect the action by Anonymous and others is having on the work IS does to spread its message online. One study released earlier this year estimated that the group and its sympathisers control more than 90,000 Twitter accounts.

"There is definitely utility in shutting down accounts," said JM Berger, an analyst that did the study of IS' use of social media.

"It's not going to eliminate IS's presence online, but it helps limit their ability to accomplish their goals, particularly with respect to spreading its propaganda outside of its core audience," he said.

"It also wastes their time and requires ISIS supporters to spend a lot of bandwidth rebuilding the network instead of recruiting and promoting their views," he added.

Rashad Ali, a senior fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue which works on ways to counter extremism said the approach did have merit.

"The action is both positive and negative," he said.

"Practically speaking, you are getting rid of a whole host of people from the public domain," he said, adding that such a large takedown can undoubtedly have an impact.

"However," he said, "it's not a solution because what we now need to do is not just take down accounts but actually provide new narratives for people.

"This is where we are failing," he said. "We have not had a strong, thought-out counter-argument to IS's message."
Bron: www.bbc.com

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Anonymous hacktivists deface Donald Trump's website with a tribute to Jon Stewart

A group of Anonymous hacktivist have apparently broken into Donald Trump’s corporate website for a strange reason.

The hacktivists, known as Telecomix Canada, allegedly broke into the site, Trump.com, to leave behind a tribute to The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on a defaced page.

“Mr Stewart, we at @TelecomixCanada would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the many happy years of quality journalism and entertainment you and your team have undertaken at Comedy Central,” reads a letter on Trump's site.

“We are writing you today via Mr Trump's website because, seeming, [sic] the only way to get anyone to pay attention any more is to grease a Presidential candidate's website.”

Active for nearly a decade, Telecomix is a digital activist group not usually known for malicious hacks. “Telecomix operatives specifically do not engage in destructive operations,” the group said Monday in a statement.

“In point of fact, this represents the first time our promissory has added a message to a device not our own in some years,” the group added.

On Trump’s site, Telecomix thanked Stewart for “many happy years of quality journalism and entertainment.”

“While even we, having wired live fire ustreams out of Gaza under Mossad's gaze, are unable to get Comedy Central's website video to work—undaunted we remain your loyal and grateful fans,” they said.

Telecomix's letter to Stewart has since been removed from Trump.com.

Telecomix gained notoriety during the Arab Spring for providing dial-up Internet services to Egyptian citizens when broadband services were censored or blocked entirely by the government. In 2011, the group released roughly 54 GB of internal files from the California-based Blue Coat Systems, revealing that the company’s products were being used to censor the Syrian Internet.

In previous interviews, Telecomix members have described the group as similar to but not directly affiliated with Anonymous. In its message on Monday, Telecomix Canada identified itself specifically as an “Anonymous collective.”

“Understanding your technical interests remain unexplored you will probably be told of this by one of your most excellent producers,” Telecomix continued, once more addressing Stewart. “Know, Sir, that your steadfast dedication to the irony and power of Truth has inspired a generation which we ourselves now serve. That our collective thanks appears here will, we hope, amuse you as much as it will them.”

The message also thanked John Oliver, a former Daily Show correspondent who now hosts HBO’s Last Week Tonight. The hashtags #DataLove and #MMM2015, short for “Million Mask March 2015,” were also included.

Trump currently leads the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls with a 9.5 point lead, according to the RealClearPolitics polls average.

The Trump campaign did not yet respond to our request for comment about the apparent hack.
Bron: www.dailydot.com

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Anonymous attacks Taiwan govt and party websites | The Jakarta Post

Hacktivist collective Anonymous Asia attacked government and political party websites yesterday in a gesture of support for students protesting against Education Ministry plans to change curriculum guidelines.

The hacked websites, which were paralysed for over an hour, belonged to the Kuomintang, New Party and Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

Yesterday's denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks follow two recent operations by Anonymous Asia. The group previously used DDoS attacks to take down the official websites of the Presidential Office and Ministry of Education on July 31 and four other websites, including that of the Ministry of National Defense, on August 2.

The Information Management Center at the MOEA said that DDoS attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world at anytime, and thus are difficult to prepare for. Yesterday's attacks occurred at dawn and only prevented access to the sites, the center said, adding that no lasting damage was done or sensitive information accessed.

All government agencies have information security measures such as firewalls in place to protect their data, according to the information center. Hackers seeking classified information attack the MOEA website daily, but the ministry's 24/7 monitoring has fended them off successfully, the center added.

The latest cyberattack marks the second known instance of the MOEA suffering a DDoS-caused outage. The first instance occurred in 2013 when the Philippine Coast Guard fired on a Taiwan fishing boat, killing its skipper.

Philippine hackers attacked Taiwan government websites amid the ensuing political tension.(+++)

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Bron: www.thejakartapost.com

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FrightSec

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People always make the best exploits. I've never found it hard to hack most people. If you listen to them, watch them, their vulnerabilities are like a neon sign screwed into their heads.

Greetings Waller County Sheriff Department, Are you ready for August 8th? Do you think the city police is ready? Well we are ready. On July 10, 2015, unnecessary force of action was used against Sandra Bland when she was arrested over a minor traffic stop. Officer Encinia used excessive force causing injuries to Sandra which led to her death. We are distraught and angered by the careless response to our demands of arresting officer Brian Encinia and the pedaling of illegitimate and doctored evidence by the media.

Our blood is boiling with rage and on August 8th we will be hitting your servers once more. We will also take our rage to the streets across the nation. We will be protesting at courthouses, parks, police stations, and even at officers homes. We will have our moment of rage for her. We have given you plenty of warning of what is to come.

Not a single sheriff officer in your department has attempted to cross the thin blue line and hold the murderer accountable for his actions. Therefore, in the eyes of FrightSec and in the eyes of Anonymous, you all are just as guilty as he is. As your punishment we are leaking your employee list little by little. The only way to stop this is by crossing the thin blue line and uphold the oath you swore. To protect and serve the citizens and arrest Officer Encinia.

Auguest 8th will be a day to remember. That day the nation will rage. We are asking the people protesting in Waller County to consider and talk with your friends and families about protesting at the officers houses. Until the Police State of America realizes that the power belongs to the people and that their badge does not grant them extra right, they will continue to abuse their power. they will continue to murder our kids, murder our vets, murder the homeless, and continue the use of brutality. Protesting at their house will show them that you are serious and demand change.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Link arms with groups like Anonymous, Cop Block, Cop Watch, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter and burn the oppressors down!

This modern day genocide will soon be over America. We will soon no longer be like Iraq on the home-front. Until you stop using deadly force on unarmed citizens this movement will be here. We will be here. The Frightsec movement is here to stay. Waller County Sheriffs Department you should really keep a tighter security of your server data. To the police state of America, your police brutality will no longer go unnoticed. You are no longer exempt from the laws you swore to uphold. Do not expect us, for it is far too late.

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World Trade Organization (WTO) Under Cyber Attack! Anonymous Takes Credit. | The Real Strategy

The website of World Trade Organisation was hacked by the hacker group Anonymous and leaked personal information of the thousands of World Trade Organisation personnel. The group which calls itself Anonymous and identifies itself as hacktivists led several hacks on websites of government and other important establishments.

This hacking incident is the latest in line of several such hacks in the past. One of the group member claimed on Twitter that he has been successfully able to hack into the website of World Trade Organisation twice in a day and using the simple method of SQL injection, has been able to gain access to over 53,000 user details and contact information!

The group hacked into the World Trade Organisation Elearning portal which lists courses on international laws related to trade and other similar courses. The portal which has the domain id ecampus.wto.org is vulnerable to such hacks and Anonymous was successful in hacking into this website.

The leaked data contains a large volume of information. The data pertaining to the admin user comprises of details such as the first name and the last name and other information such as phone numbers, email ids, fax numbers and designations and titles of 58 admin members. The leaked information of the various candidates include the personal information of the candidates such as their first and last names and date of birth. Information of 80 candidates was stolen. The information belonging to the staff members such as their names, titles, email ids and phone numbers was hacked into by Anonymous.

The hacking incident has impacted several countries which include China, India, Pakistan, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, United States, Russia, Santo Domingo and various other nations. The growing instances of such hacks expose the vulnerabilities in the systems which require stringent security measures to be imposed.

Report from www.meethackers.com

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Bron: www.therealstrategy.com

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The End of the Internet Dream: the speech that won Black Hat (and Defcon)

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"The End of the Internet Dream," cyberlawyer Jennifer Granick's keynote at Black Hat, was all anyone could talk about at this year's Defcon -- Black Hat being the grown-up, buttoned-down, military-industrial cousin to Defcon's wild and exuberant anarchy.

The text of Granick's speech is now online, and I can see what they were all raving about. Granick tells the true story of "Internet Utopians" -- not people who believed the Internet would deliver a better, freer world; rather, people who believed that it could, if the rest of us fought for it.

She also tells the tale of how that dream was dashed by giving in to cybersecurity scaremongering, copyright bullying, easy answers to difficult speech, unexamined racism and sexism, and the global war on terror. How governments, companies and our complacency all but killed the dream of the Internet as a force for improving the world.

But she also provides a prescription for changing that -- hope that we can avert that future, and that therefore, we must.

If you wondered why I went back to EFF after a decade of sitting on the sidelines, this is why.

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The End of the Internet Dream

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B.C. man killed by RCMP identified, as Anonymous members quarrel over retaliation | National Post

The man killed by the RCMP outside a BC Hydro public meeting in Dawson Creek Thursday has been identified as James Daniel McIntyre, a 48-year-old local resident who fellow activists say was an Anonymous member who sent warnings — or threats — to BC Hydro of a potential hack attack shortly before the police shooting.

The killing of McIntyre, who is said to have been wearing the grinning Guy Fawkes mask worn by supporters of Anonymous, a global hacktivist collective, and carrying a knife at the time, has led to threats of vengeance against the RCMP and calls for public protests.

“Anonymous will not stand idly by while our own are cut down in mask,” said a statement sent Saturday to the National Post, threatening the Internet infrastructure of the RCMP and the release of personal information on the identity of the officer who pulled the trigger.

“If we do not receive justice, rest assured there will be revenge,” the statement says.

An apparent denial of service attack targeted RCMP websites over the weekend but all seemed operational Monday. The fallout from the threats, however, sparked infighting among activists under the Anonymous banner, some pushing for alternate ways of dealing with the shooting. By Monday, an Anonymous Twitter account issuing the threats first declared it was “under new management” and then, by afternoon, was deleted.

A Twitter user claims to have deactivated the account through a hostile takeover because “the drama” of the Anonymous squabble took the focus away from McIntyre’s death and the issue he was protesting. Someone identifying themselves as McIntyre’s cousin tweeted, “this nonsense will not bring my cousin back” and said McIntyre has family members in the RCMP.

McIntyre was killed at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Fixx Urban Grill restaurant.

The RCMP said officers were called to the scene for a report of a man damaging property and disrupting the event. McIntyre was not the person who caused the initial disturbance but confronted two responding officers, said Corp. Dave Tyreman, an RCMP spokesman.

Tyreman said officers “did everything they could to de-escalate” the situation before shooting.

The death is being investigated by the Independent Investigations Office. The IIO said a knife was recovered along with other evidence and the probe is continuing. IIO investigators are “interviewing civilian witnesses; designating and interviewing officers; reviewing video from the scene and from witnesses; and meeting with the affected person’s family,” the IIO says in a written statement.

Neither the IIO nor the RCMP have identified the officer who shot McIntyre. Tyreman declined to provide even the officer’s rank, gender or years of service with the force, citing the threats against the officer by online activists. The IIO says decision on the officer’s work status is the responsibility of the RCMP.

Mike Irmen was in Dawson Creek on business and said he saw two Mounties with their guns drawn. Irmen asked what was going on.

“Just as I said that to them, bang, the cops had shot the guy. He kind of falls down and ends up laying there, bleeding, and he’s got his knife still in his hand,” Irmen said.

Irmen pulled out his phone and shot video of McIntyre as he lay on his right side, blood pooling beneath him.

“The cops are like, ‘Throw your weapon away, throw your weapon away, throw your weapon away.’ They must have said it I don’t know how many times,” he said.

McIntyre appeared to lose consciousness and the officers kicked the knife from the man’s hand and handcuffed him, Irmen said.

McIntyre died shortly after arrival at hospital, according to the coroner. The coroner has still not traced bullet trajectories and could not say how many times he was shot.

A woman who answered the phone Monday at a home believed to be a relative’s residence said she had no comment and asked for privacy for the family.

Have a good Night/Day Anon types where ever you maybe.

McIntyre worked at Le’s Family restaurant as a dishwasher and cook’s assistant, according to the Alaska Highway News. Owner Le Nguyen said McIntyre was a hard worker and a “normal guy.”

People identifying themselves as Anonymous activists, including some with a known history of hacktivist activity, say McIntyre was a First Nations Anonymous member who, using the Twitter handle @jaymack9, helped organize opposition to the Site C Dam, a massive hydroelectric project planned for the Peace River in northeastern B.C. (The coroner’s office said determining any native status was part of its investigation.)

On the day of the public hearing, he sent several tweets, most about BC Hydro’s plans.

“Anonymous splinter group (to) attend the scheduled meeting in Dawson Creek tonight starting at 6pm,” he tweeted shortly before he was shot.

Earlier, he sent a tweet to B.C. Premier Christy Clark and B.C. Hydro with what could be perceived as a threat of a computer hack: “BC Hydro check your computer systems, have real weakness in some areas,” it says.

Despite his tweeted warning of Anonymous protesters attending the meeting, Tyreman said that information did not appear to be known to police at the time.

“The only time this group Anonymous came to our attention was after the fact,” Tyreman said. The RCMP is aware of the subsequent threats coming after the shooting and “appropriate resources” are reviewing it.

One of those tagged in @jaymack9’s last two tweets was Faisal Moola, a director of the David Suzuki Foundation and an environmental scientist.

“I don’t know the individual. I am not clear why he tweeted me, the local First Nations and the David Suzuki Foundation,” Moola said in an interview. “I do not know the individual at all but I am aware of what happened to him in this altercation with police.”

Moola previously presented a study on the environmental impact of hydroelectric projects in BC to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency as part of the hearings on the Site C dam.

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Jesse Brown: What are you trying to accomplish? Is this really about justice for James Daniel McIntyre or would you be leaking this stuff anyhow?

Anonymous: We would have leaked some of this material anyway. In our view, everything here is entirely connected, however. The atmosphere set by Stephen Harper, RCMP, CSIS and more is to treat environmental protesters as terrorists. Our goal is to protect activists on the ground, to see C-51 completely repealed, and to see how police interact with and spy on indigenous, environmental, and other protesters as well as the general public reset.

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“What’s Wrong With You Guys?” #Anonymous Takes Down Denver Police Union Website for #PaulCastaway

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“What’s wrong with you guys?” Those were the last words of Lakota man Paul Castaway, uttered last Sunday night as he died from four gunshot wounds to the torso, the bullets fired by a Denver police officer. Police were on the scene at the Capitol City Mobile Home Park because Castaway, who had mental health issues, had been drinking and getting rowdy, and his mother had called them to help get him under control.

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Anonymous Targets the U.S. Banking System with Operation 'Black October'

Anonymous has announced a peaceful revolution by calling out to people to join “Black October”, a campaign which it believes will be an “easy” way for the 99% to demonstrate their collective strength and “beat” the richest 1%.

Hacktivist group Anonymous announced a new campaign called “Black October”, days after the four-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The group is calling for ordinary masses making up for the 99% to forego credit and debit cards and use cash instead, after claiming that private banks have failed ordinary people.

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Anonymous Operation Black October 2015 music for a peaceful revolution

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Anonymous hacktivist explains why group is targeting Saudi Arabian government

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Anonymous, an international network of hackers, has been attacking official Saudi government websites. In an exclusive interview with DW, a group hacktivist explains why they have taken on Riyadh.

Almost as soon as Ali Mohammed al-Nimr's impending death sentence broke, Anonymous, a group of online hackers, vowed to take on the Saudi Arabian government.

The announcement was somewhat unusual for the group which is often perceived as focusing on campaigns of cyber security and espionage.

Seventeen-year-old al-Nimr, a Saudi Arabian national, was arrested in 2012 for his participation in the Arab Spring protests. A teenager at the time of his incarceration, al-Nimr claims to have been tortured during his three years of imprisonment. In May 2014, he was sentenced to death.

Appeals to two of the country's highest courts were rejected. Despite calls from Amnesty International and other rights organizations, al-Nimr's execution is now awaiting ratification by King Salman.

As al-Nimr's fate began to make headlines, Anonymous decided to take matters into their own hands and hack official Saudi Arabian government websites.

In an exclusive interview with DW, a member of Anonymous outlines what motived the group to attack Riyadh.

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Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking | Motherboard

On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California, found Matthew Keys, former social media editor at Reuters and an ex-employee of KTXL Fox 40, guilty of computer hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.

In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting in the defacement of an LA Times article online. The defacement was reversed in 40 minutes, but the government argued the attack caused nearly a million dollars in damage.

“The government wanted to send a clear message that if you want to cover a group they don’t agree with, and you’re not complicit with them [the government], they will target you,” Keys told me after the trial.

When asked about claims that the prosecution was politically motivated, Assistant US Attorney Matt Segal replied, "I don't know what Keys's political beliefs are."

Keys was found guilty on all three counts he was charged with: conspiracy to commit computer hacking, transmission of malicious code causing unauthorized damage to a protected computer, and attempting to transmit malicious code to cause unauthorized damage to a protected computer. (The specific provisions of the CFAA are listed at the end of this article.)

The statutory maximum for Keys's crimes is 25 years, but in a statement given after the trial, a spokesperson for the US Attorneys Office said Keys would likely face less than five years.

"While it has not been determined what the government will be asking the court for, it will likely be less than 5 years," the spokesperson said.

"This is not the crime of the century," Segal said, adding that nonetheless Keys should not get away with his acts. At minimum, he may receive probation. Sentencing is scheduled for January 20, 2016.

That was bullshit.

That was bullshit.

Keys said he was disappointed with the verdict, and worried about the sentence affecting his ability to work. However, he also expressed his intention to appeal the conviction, and was optimistic it would be overturned.

Keys added that a few months after his first story about Anonymous, he was approached by the FBI, but Keys refused to allow them to scan his computer. He was indicted a couple of years later.

the AUSA pointed out that Keys had committed a crime against a journalistic institution.

the AUSA pointed out that Keys had committed a crime against a journalistic institution.

In order to be convicted under the CFAA, the damage had to exceed $5,000. The government claimed that Keys caused $929,977.00 worth of damage. During the trial, the defense tried to cast doubt on the total damages, claiming that the expenditures in response to the hack were not reasonable, and Tribune employees had grossly inflated the hours spent on incident response.

“This case demonstrates the FBI’s commitment to identify and investigate those who harass former employers by using insider knowledge to intentionally exploit computer systems—whether directly or by proxy—to damage the reputation and operations of a business,” said Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller of the FBI’s Sacramento field office in a statement. “Individuals who use ‘bully’ tactics to attack computer networks will face justice for their actions.”

The jury was composed of 11 women and 1 man. The government was represented by Assistant US Attorneys Matthew Segal and Paul Hemesath, along with James Silver, trial attorney for the Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Matthew Keys was represented by Jay Leiderman, Tor Ekeland, and Mark Jaffe.

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The charges against Matthew Keys:

Count 1: Conspiracy

18 USC 371

Underlying crime: § 1030(a)(5)(A) and § 1030(c)(4)(B)

Count 2: Transmission of Malicious Code

1030(a)(5)(A) & 1030(c)(4)(B)

Count 3: Attempted Transmission of Malicious Code

1030(a)(5)(A) & 1030(b)
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