Anonops #11: Stop ACTA

Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio]

LOLPRAH: OVER 9000 PENISES!

Tom Cruise Scientology Video - ( Original UNCUT )

Message to Scientology

Operation Payback - Anonymous Message About ACTA Laws, Internet Censorship and Copyright

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)persecute-anonymous/
NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.

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Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. Her first book, "Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking" is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action

^{Gabriella Coleman, April 6 2011}

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Our Weirdness Is Free

The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice.

_{by Gabriella Coleman, [01.13.2012]}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

^{The Huffington Post, Saki Knafo. Posted: 1/30/12 12:20 PM ET | Updated: 2/1/12 07:36 PM ET}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

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Op maandag 30 januari 2012 20:28 schreef picodealion het volgende:
Nog maar eens een bedankje voor dit topic, ik volg het al een tijd met plezier .

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Op maandag 30 januari 2012 20:26 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
The Huffington Post:

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TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group

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Sometimes the jokes went to harsh extremes, and that hasn't changed. In 2010, an 11-year-old girl nicknamed Jessi Slaughter issued a YouTube threat against "haters" who had started an Internet rumor about her. She said she'd "pop a Glock in your mouth and make a brain slushy." As a Gawker account put it, "Ha ha."

Unfortunately, as Gawker went on to note, the response went beyond "ha ha." People found her real name, address and phone number. They passed the information around. A bomb squad showed up to her school after a suspicious package arrived in the mail. Encyclopaedia Dramatica, a website that chronicles the lore and pranks of the Internet in the fuck-you-it's-funny style of the Internet itself, published an item on how to troll her. "Tell her dad that we are going to beat her up." "Tell her to kill herself."

Jessi responded with another video. In this one, she was seen crying and whimpering while her father crouched in the background, screaming at the camera and shaking his fist. His awkward threats would become memes. A year later, he was arrested for punching Jessi in the mouth, and six months after that, she posted a video saying she'd been institutionalized and was living in foster care. Last summer, her mother wrote on Facebook that the father had died of a massive heart attack. Someone posted a screenshot of the message on FunnyJunk.com.

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ArturasCEO twitterde op maandag 30-01-2012 om 22:38:30 #Anonymous - Fucking Dumbasses - Get A Life - Get A Job - Show Success http://t.co/3xNeu1Ku reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 31 januari 2012 00:07 schreef viagraap het volgende:

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Waarom hoorde ik meteen Ewan McGregor in mijn hoofd?

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Is Anonymous our future?

The enigmatic Internet-driven collective Anonymous, thank goodness, has an anthropologist in its midst. For a few years now, Gabriella Coleman has been arduously participant-observing in IRC chat rooms, watching Anonymous turn from a prankster moniker to a herd of vigilantes for global justice. In an extraordinary new essay at Triple Canopy, “Our Weirdness Is Free,” she summarizes what Anonymous is all about this way:

. Beyond a foundational commitment to anonymity and the free flow of information, Anonymous has no consistent philosophy or political program. Though Anonymous has increasingly devoted its energies to (and become known for) digital dissent and direct action around various “ops,” it has no definite trajectory. Sometimes coy and playful, sometimes macabre and sinister, often all at once, Anonymous is still animated by a collective will toward mischief—toward “lulz,” a plural bastardization of the portmanteau LOL (laugh out loud). Lulz represent an ethos as much as an objective.

The more I learn about Anonymous, especially in light of the offline, on-the-ground praxis of the Occupy movement, the more I’ve been wondering whether we’re seeing a glimpse of the future for all of us.

Here’s why.

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FDA hacked into private Gmail accounts of its own whistleblower scientist using covert spy technology

The criminal tendencies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were on full display today when it was revealed the agency installed spy software and illegally hacked into the private Gmail accounts of at least half a dozen of its own top scientists. Those scientists, it turns out, were the very same whistleblowers who warned Congress about the FDA’s approval of dangerous medical devices that threatened the lives of patients. In response to them taking action to protect the lives of the innocent — something the FDA is supposed to do but has long since abandoned — they were instead subjected to illegal hacking and having their employment contracts with the FDA terminated.

Those six scientists and doctors have now filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court which claims that they were subjected to FDA internal harassment and unjustified job termination. The lawsuit also describes how the FDA hacked into the private email accounts of these scientists, then intercepted their “whistleblower complaints” intended to be seen only by members of Congress.

“The complaint details how the FDA targeted its employees with a covert spying campaign that lasted for two years,” reports Whistleblowers.org (http://www.whistleblowers(...)nt&task=view&&hellip. “The [FDA] installed (or activated) spyware on their workplace computers and used other technology that to monitor their password-protected Gmail-to-Gmail communications. Managers used the collected information to learn the identities of confidential whistleblowers and to obtain the details of the public health and safety concerns the whistleblowers intended to disclose to the Office of Special Counsel, Congress and the Agency’s own Inspector General.”

More importantly, documents reveal that the FDA’s own lawyers engaged in a criminal cover-up of evidence in order to obstruct justice and retaliate against the FDA scientists:

. “The managers who spearheaded the surveillance efforts were the same managers involved with the wrongdoing and corruption that the whistleblowers were seeking to report. Lawyers at the FDA and HHS Offices of General Counsel, who should have understood that the program breached the employees’ confidentiality, helped FDA managers with their obstruction and retaliation.”

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Can Reddit Write Legislation, Too? Proposes The 'Free Internet Act'

I have to admit that one of the more fun aspects of watching what has happened over the past few months with the SOPA/PIPA debate is watching the Reddit community jump on this issue... and evolve with it. The thing with the Reddit community isn't just it's sheer power as a large group of people who are more than willing to stand up for what they believe in, but their willingness to take on big challenges that most people would back away from. Not all of them work out, but as a community, they like to really jump into things and aim high. Such is the situation with the proposed plan to write a piece of legislation, The Free Internet Act, on Reddit. As an observer of these things, a reasonable first reaction is to chuckle a bit at what seems like a combination of both hubris and naivete that an online community (mostly of political novices) can create a reasonable piece of legislation. But... then you think of what else Reddit has done, and you begin to realize that if it can somehow pull this off -- or at least influence the debate in a positive way, this could be amazing (even if it's a long shot).

A specific sub-Reddit has been set up, where different people are discussing different thoughts on what such a bill might include and other issues related to the bill's central concept: guaranteeing a free internet.

Again, there's a big hill to climb here to make this into any sort of reality, but there's something really amazing and compelling about this self-forming group taking the initiative to try to not just drive the debate, but to actually craft legislation that would protect internet freedom. As much as I've been impressed by the process of the Wyden/Issa proposed OPEN bill, in which they put it up on a platform that allowed the public to crowdsource thoughts on a bill, they still started with a bill suggested in Congress. What happens when a bill is crowdsourced from scratch? Possibly nothing at all, but as an experiment, it will be fascinating to watch...

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New York prosecutors ask Twitter to reveal Occupy Wall Street man's tweets

Twitter agrees not to comply with subpoena from district attorney's office while protester's lawyer prepares rebuttal

Prosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in October during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 26 January subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney's office seeks "user information, including email address," along with three months' worth of tweets from @destructuremal, the Twitter handle for Malcolm Harris.

Harris, 23, a freelance writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn, said on Tuesday that Twitter sent a copy of the subpoena to him on Monday. He posted it on Twitter.

"When you get an email from Twitter Legal, you assume it's a phishing scam, trying to get your password," he said. "It turned out that it is a phishing scam, but it's from the prosecutors."

It is not clear what specific evidence prosecutors are after. But the subpoena is an example of posts on social media sites posing potential legal problems for authors.

Harris said his lawyer, Martin Stolar, would file a motion to quash the subpoena. Twitter has agreed not to comply with the subpoena while Stolar prepares the motion, Harris said.

A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office declined to comment.

The subpoena seeks Harris's tweets from 15 September – two days before the Occupy Wall Street movement began – to 15 December.

Harris is not sure what tweets could be fodder for prosecutors; Twitter's interface does not allow him to review all of his old tweets. Stolar was not available for comment.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on the case but confirmed that the San Francisco-based company's policy is "to notify users about law enforcement and governmental requests for their information, unless we are prevented by law from doing so", in order to protect users' rights.

Harris is one of hundreds of Occupy-related defendants whose cases are still winding their way through American courts.

A special courtroom has been set up to handle more than 1,800 cases in New York, the vast majority involving misdemeanour charges.

He was charged with disorderly conduct and is due back in court on 29 February.

Like a number of Occupy protesters, he has vowed to take the case to trial rather than accept a deal from prosecutors.

The National Lawyers Guild is representing many of the arrested protesters.

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Union of Arab Banks hacked by #TeamAnarchyhttp://www.pastebay.org/306750 #Anonymous #AntiSec

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YOUR PERSONAL AND LOGIN INFORMATION IS CLEARLY NOT SECURE….
MAKES ME WONDER HOW SECURE YOUR BANKS ARE….

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'Anonymous' hacker speaks about SLC PD website takedown

SALT LAKE CITY—
A hacker believed to be part of the online collective known as "Anonymous" said in comments to FOX 13 that it has obtained more information than what Salt Lake City police previously said was accessed during a hack attack on their website.

"Contact info for job applications, details into drug operations with names addresses license plate numbers, supplier names, locations times," the hacker known as @ItsKahuna said in an interview with FOX 13's Ben Winslow over Twitter.

"We entered their admin control panel which linked to a lot of revealing confidential information, this was a poorly designed site," @ItsKahuna wrote.

Police had previously said e-mail addresses for press releases were accessed. Then they said tips from the public for potential crimes had been taken. Late Wednesday, the police department urged members of the public who submitted information over slcpd.com should change their passwords for their personal e-mails, etc.

@ItsKahuna, who alongside @CabinCr3w have claimed responsibility for the hacking, provided FOX 13 with a sample report of a drug crime that included a redacted e-mail address. The Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed its legitimacy and other things that the hacker had claimed were accessed.

The hacker told FOX 13 it would not be releasing any other information that had been accessed. A massive e-mail list and the redacted drug report were posted on a website.

Anonymous has expressed displeasure at a bill currently in the Utah State Legislature that would make possessing graffiti tools, such as spray paint cans, a potential crime. The bill is being sponsored by Sen. Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City. Mayne's bill died on the Senate floor Thursday morning after an 11-17 vote. Mayne said she will bring the bill back in the 2013 legislative session.

"Has your Senator Karen Mayne watched 'Minority Report' too many times?" Anonymous said in a posting. "A law prohibiting ownership and use of purchased products based on suspected intent? Is she kidding? The purpose of the law is not to prevent crime, but to manage it. The public gets the benefit of the doubt. A little too zealous wethinks."

Why the Salt Lake City Police Department's website?

"The police are the foot soldiers of this government controlled police state, this op will target them and spread that we will not stand and let this oppression continue," @ItsKahuna wrote to FOX 13's Ben Winslow.

The hacker said that no other website, including the Utah State Legislature's, had been attempted as part of the ongoing "#OpPiggyBank."

The FBI confirmed to FOX 13 it has begun investigating the attack on slcpd.com, which was still down as of Thursday afternoon.

Asked if Anonymous wished to say something to Sen. Mayne, @ItsKahuna replied: "Tell her that this won't be the last she hears from us if this legislation passes. We don't support crime based on "assumption" and our Voices will be heard, she can expect us."

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op vrijdag 03-02-2012 om 09:22:32 #Anonymous #AntiSec intercepts #FBI comms. Conference call [mp3] http://t.co/FcXNYb5Y #LulzSec #OWS #FFF reageer retweet

FBI Conference Call - #FFF.

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China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest

Internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut for 30 miles around scene of clashes in Sichuan, state media reports

Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported.

Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths.

Tibetan exiles and campaign groups say police fired at peaceful protesters and killed at least three people.

It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest. Foreign reporters attempting to visit the region have been turned back, with officials blaming bad weather and the state of the roads.

Friday's English-language edition of the Global Times newspaper published a report from the region titled Monks Run Amok. The police chief of Luhuo in Ganzi – a county known to Tibetans as Drango – said police first tried to disperse rioters with high-power water guns and rubber bullets, but failed.

"Rioters continued to attack and tried to grab the guns from the police," he told the paper. "[Officers] first shot in the air as a warning, but it was completely ignored, so we had no other choice but to open fire."

The newspaper said the incident began with a protest that became violent. It said other Tibetan-populated counties had quickly tightened security, allowing police to quickly control the next day's unrest in Seda, known to Tibetans as Serthar, where another Tibetan was shot dead.

"After the riots, internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut off for over 50km [30 miles] around the riot areas. Police believe external forces played a part in the riots," the newspaper said.

In 2009, China cut off internet and text messaging services across the north-western region of Xinjiang after ethnic riots in the capital, Urumqi, left almost 200 dead.

Officials blamed "trained separatists" for instigating the events in Ganzi. They have also sought to blame outsiders for a string of self-immolations by Tibetan clergy and laypeople over the last year, mostly in Sichuan.

China appears to have stepped up security across other Tibetan areas, with the top party official in Lhasa urging security forces to increase surveillance of monasteries and main roads in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Qi Zhala ordered all people entering Tibet to carry identification cards from March, the state news agency Xinhua reported. He urged officials to strive for "no big incidents, no medium incidents and not even a small incident".

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1:42 p.m.: Anonymous's next target: A law firm representing Frank Wuterich, whose name you may recognize as the only Marine convicted of a crime in the Haditha massacre in Iraq in 2005, and who didn't get any prison time. The website for the law firm Puckett and Faraj now looks a lot like that of the Boston Police Department, with red writing on a black background and KRS-One's Sound of the Police playing incessantly. But this attack also includes a massive data dump, with a link to a torrent containing "nearly 3 gigabytes of email correspondence belonging to his attorneys," Russia Today reports. In its screed on the Puckett and Faraj site, Anonymous promises more releases having to do with that recent awful video of Marines urinating on Afghan corpses:

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10:17 a.m.: The hackers at Anonymous promised a big release of hacked information on Friday, and at least part of it is a recording of FBI agents on a conference call with Scotland Yard talking about their mutual investigation into Anonymous. The audio recording (below) contains about 16 minutes of agents chatting about what evidence they've got on already-arrested hackers including Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis (aka Topiary) and Kayla. They also talk about their investigation into a guy named Tehwongz, who apparently hacked into the servers of the gaming platform Steam and got about 30,000 logins.

The call's release means Anonymous has access to the emails of somebody in the FBI involved with the Anonymous investigation, and in the spirit of thumbing their noses at the agency, the hackers also posted to Pastebin the email with login data from the call. A clearly annoyed FBI says it's hunting down those responsible for breaking into the call, but from the sound of things so far, the hackers are a step ahead.

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Door Peter Rietveld, Senior Security consultant bij Traxion - The Identity Management Specialists -

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BarrettBrownLOL twitterde op zaterdag 04-02-2012 om 06:31:10 The #Haditha leak goes way, way beyond that massacre, touching upon every aspect of the military/industrial complex. #FFF #Anonymous reageer retweet

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Syracuse PD site hacked, Anonymous claims attack

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse police say the department's website has been hacked in an attack claimed by the online collective Anonymous, one of a number this week targeting police.

Sgt. Tom Connellan, the department spokesman, says names and passwords of people authorized to alter the site were lifted Wednesday and posted on Twitter.

He says the site featuring public news is maintained by an outside company and wasn't linked to department systems with private information about officers or citizens.

It remains shut down Friday while the FBI and state police investigate. An online posting attributed to Anonymous says it hit the department in part because of what is says was a failure to aggressively pursue child abuse allegations against formed Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine.

Also hacked this week were police in Boston and Salt Lake City.

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Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. Her first book, "Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking" is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action

^{Gabriella Coleman, April 6 2011}

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Our Weirdness Is Free

The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice.

_{by Gabriella Coleman, [01.13.2012]}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

^{The Huffington Post, Saki Knafo. Posted: 1/30/12 12:20 PM ET | Updated: 2/1/12 07:36 PM ET}

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2012 21:20 schreef sp3c het volgende:
goed??

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ZionOps

The following are brief profiles of some of the hackers involved. They were identifiedby press reports or by the content of hacker websites as being the most active or highprofile hackers in the anti-Israel campaign.

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Anonymous’ Latest Release Includes Private Info About Sexual Assault Victims and Guantanamo Lawyers

Earlier today, Anonymous announced what sounded like an awesome caper: The group had compromised the email of a law firm that represented Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the Marine squad leader who got a slap on the wrist for his role in the Haditha massacre. Trouble is, the hack had a lot of collateral victims, including people that Anonymous might normally be aligned with. Like a lawyer for Guantanamo detainees.

In announcing the hack, Anonymous stressed that it was attempting to expose and combat the failures of the military justice system, which let a murderer off the hook. Included in the release are "detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records pertaining to not only Frank Wuterich but also many other marines they have represented."

Well, yes. But a very cursory examination—we've only been able to peruse a tiny percentage of the data released—has turned up a wealth of information about, for instance, sexual assault victims. Puckett and Faraj, the targeted law firm, represented a Marine accused of rape in 2007. So among partner Haytham Faraj's emails are witness statements from the victims—whose names have not been reported in the context of the sexual assault—recounting how one awoke from a drunken stupor to realize "her tampon was pushed deep inside her." Another recalls only "flashes": "My next flash is I am lying on my back on the bed near the bathroom...and there is a man in boxer-like shorts straddling me." It's hard to see how the public release of that information accords with Anonymous' self-described "ongoing effort to expose the corruption of the court systems and the brutality of US imperialism."

One of Puckett and Faraj's former partners is Eric Montalvo, a lawyer who represented Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamed Jawad. Jawad was accused of attempted murder for throwing a grenade at U.S. forces in 2002. Depending on who you ask, he was either 12 or 17 years old at the time. He spent nine years without a trial in Guantanamo before Montalvo succeeded in getting him a habeas corpus hearing.

Among the hacked emails is an attachment with 9 months' worth of Montalvo's cell phone records. Every call, in or out. It's an unlikely reward for taking on a case like Jawad's. There's a wealth of data in the release that absolutely should become public, and I will eagerly pore over it. But there are unintended consequences to the approach.

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more puckett & faraj lulz

"This may completely destroy the Law Firm."
The information contained in this electronic message is confidential, and is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, distribution, copying of disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please notify Puckett & Faraj, PLLC at 703-706-9566 or via a return the e-mail to sender. You are required to purge this E-mail immediately without reading or making any copy or distribution.

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From: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:55:08
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>,
Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
To: "Neal A. Puckett" <neal@puckettfaraj.com>

Hi Neal,

This was done by someone who clearly knows what they are doing. Anonymous is one of the largest, if not THE largest group of hackers in the world at this time. They've taken down Sony, DoD and many others in recent months.
I've replaced their hacked version with a blank screen for right now (it's the quickest thing to get theirs off of there). I've also updated the FTP password.
This isn't like the previous hack where one file was replaced and it redirected. In this case Anon was able to gain FTP access directly to the server and remove ALL files to your site. We're working on restoring the backups now, and looking to see how far this attack went.
At this time, it only looks like the web files were removed, but the database was left intact and untouched.
We're going to have to lock down not only the front end (as done previously), but we are going to have to limit the IP addresses that can access anything to do with the server.
Unfortunately, there are a couple things to consider with this one:
- This was clearly not a random attack.
- If this truly is anon, it may not be limited to just your site or just this one attack. Currently, your domain is on a web server that hosts some of our other sites and clients as well. It may be a good idea to host your site on a fully secured private web server. This can run from $400 - $2,000 per month. On a shared server, the other domains could be vectors for possible access to your site as well.
- Anonymous is a little out of my league. Since you are being targeted, I would suggest hiring a specialist for this type of matter. I'd be more than happy to help you select one, but it seems that someone dedicated to ensuring the security on an ongoing basis and can have 100% control over the server and site may be the direction needed at this point. RackSpace and similar companies offer managed solutions that may cover what is required.
As far as reporting this, and to who, I must admit that I'm not exactly sure. I believe it would be the FBI. Here's a government resource I was able to find on the matter: http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm

Please feel free to give me a call on my cell phone to discuss further.
619-618-9994.

With Best Regards,
Micah

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How did Anonymous hack the FBI?

The latest, astonishing feat has put the internet hackers back in the public eye - and the authorities on the back foot.

In the last twelve months it has attacked government websites in Syria, declared cyber war on a brutal Mexican drug cartel, and exposed an anti-WikiLeaks "dirty tricks campaign" allegedly plotted by a prominent US security firm. But on Friday, Anonymous, a diffuse network of internet hackers, reached a new level when it intercepted and leaked a conference call between FBI agents and Scotland Yard detectives.

The astonishing feat - confirmed as genuine by the FBI - was apparently carried out after the hackers breached email accounts belonging to the authorities. In doing so, they were able to snoop on communications being exchanged between forces involved in a joint international anti-hacking operation across England, Ireland, Holland, France, Denmark, Sweden and America. In a piece of surreal real-life theatre, the tables were embarrassingly and dramatically turned. The investigators became the investigated; the watchers became the watched.

The call in question, which lasts around 16 minutes, is one of the boldest leaks ever produced by the hackers, and it may also be one of the most revelatory. A fascinating glimpse into a highly classified world, it shows the extent to which the Metropolitan police is willing to collaborate with its foreign counterparts as part of cyber-crime investigations, even if doing so means interfering with the British judicial process. At one point during the call, for instance, one of the Scotland Yard detectives tells his FBI colleagues that they secretly delayed an ongoing court case involving two UK-based suspected hackers - Jake Davis and Ryan Cleary - at America's behest.

"Following some discussion with the New York office, we're looking to try and build some time in to allow some operational matters to fulfil on your side of the water," the Scotland Yard detective is quoted as saying. "We've got the prosecution making an application in chambers, i.e. without the defence knowing, to seek a way to try and factor some time in, that won't look suspicious." He goes on: "Hey, we're here to help. We've cocked things up in the past, we know that."

The FBI has previously declined to comment on whether it would pursue extradition of Cleary or Davis, both of whom are facing a series of charges in Britain for their alleged involvement with Anonymous and its affiliated offshoot, LulzSec .

The call suggests, however, that the US could indeed be building its own case against the hackers. Davis in particular, who stands accused of being the audacious LulzSec spokesperson known online as "Topiary", would no doubt be wanted by the Americans. Over a two-month period in 2011, LulzSec perpetrated a series of high-profile attacks on the websites of US-based multi-national corporations and state agencies - including the CIA and the US senate - making it a prime target for cyber-crime investigators within the FBI.

Prior to the leaked call, it was clear that Davis's legal team already suspected US involvement on some level. This was made apparent last month, during a short hearing at Southwark Crown Court, when Gideon Cammerman, Davis's lawyer, expressed concern about outside interference, asking prosecutors that any "letters of request from a foreign jurisdiction" are presented to him when evidence is formally exchanged on 30 March, prior to Davis and Cleary entering pleas on 11 May. (A letter of request is a method used by a foreign court to seek judicial assistance, such as to obtain information or a witness statement from a specified person.)

Responding to concerns raised by Cammerman, a source within the Crown Prosecution Service said that they could not officially comment on the matter of foreign involvement until after 30 March, but stressed both prosecution and defence had a "common interest in the case being tried here [in the UK] effectively," hinting that any possible US extradition request could hinge on the outcome of the British trial.

In the meantime, the key question is whether Anonymous is sitting on more hacked information as explosive as the conference call, which, depending on its content, could have potentially massive repercussions.

To some extent, the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have now been put on the back foot. Likely rattled and aghast that their own private conversations were hacked by the very hackers they are paid to investigate, they will be apprehensive about what could come next.

Cleary's lawyer, Karen Todner, has starkly warned that "whole cases could be blown apart" as a result of future security breaches; Anonymous, as ever, has promised more revelations are yet to come.

"You think we're done? Fuck no," tweeted one of its most prominent hackers, Sabu, on Friday. "Truth is we're still in the agents (sic) mailbox right now."

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We have discovered, as a result of the passage of time and our own investigation, chilling facts about the case that will never be briefed by the prosecution team but which ought, in the best interests of the Marine Corps, to be considered at your level.

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anonymous_RSA twitterde op zondag 05-02-2012 om 23:46:41 One of our Anon Brothers @LuLzWarfare was killed at a protest in Suez #Egypt Feb 3. RIP Bro. #Anonymous..With... http://t.co/GrYJAeMD reageer retweet

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A member of the Occupy Wall Street group contacted me this weekend and notified me
that Thomas Ryan of ProvideSecurity was endangering U.S. members of Anonymous
who have had their names made public via a probable false flag operation aimed at the
Zetas Cartel.

Ryan has a history of subterfuge – specifically the creation of the Robin Sage persona
which invaded the privacy of many members of the intelligence community. He has also
engaged in various infiltration schemes aimed at Occupy Wall Street, which have been
reported on Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.

This was a clumsy operation, in which he disclosed all his FBI and NYPD contacts, as
well as a relationship with former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr. I’ve attached a brief about
HBGary and their Team Themis project which was circulated to House and Senate
staffers last spring. It provides a quick overview of that situation.

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Google and Facebook block content in India after court warns of crackdown

Judge tells 21 companies to bar access to material deemed religiously offensive, or face China-style action

Google and Facebook have removed content from some Indian websites after a court warned that India would crack down "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.

The two are among 21 companies ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiously offensive after private petitioners took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

Individuals have brought two cases against internet companies in India, fuelling fears about censorship in the world's largest democracy.

"[Our] review team has looked at the content and disabled this content from the local domains of google search, YouTube and Blogger," said a Google spokeswoman, Paroma Roy Chowdhury.

At the heart of the dispute is a law India passed last year making companies responsible for user content posted on their websites, and giving them 36 hours to take down content if there is a complaint.

Last month, the companies said it was impossible for them to block content. Roy Chowdhury declined to comment on what had since been removed, and a Facebook representative said only that the company would release a statement later.

A New Delhi lower court hearing one of the cases, a civil suit brought by an Islamic scholar, told the companies on Monday to put in writing the steps they had taken to block offensive content, and submit reports within 15 days.

"Microsoft has filed an application for rejection of the suit on the grounds that it disclosed no cause of action against Microsoft," a spokesperson for the company said. "The matter is sub judice and no further comments can be given."

That suit was brought by a scholar, Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasm, who runs a website called fatwaonline.org, which gives answers to moral questions.

Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft have appealed in the Delhi high court against a separate criminal case successfully brought by Vinay Rai, a journalist.

The high court has yet to rule on their appeal, but the sitting judge warned in January they were responsible for content on their websites and said he could, "like China", block sites if the company failed to put its house in order.

In the Rai case, the court ordered the companies to stand trial for offences relating to the distribution of obscene material to minors, after being shown images it said were offensive to the prophet Muhammad, Jesus and various Hindu gods and goddesses as well as several political leaders.

"If the companies have actually removed some content, they should put in place a mechanism to do it regularly, instead of waiting for a court case every time," Rai said.

Fewer than one in 10 of India's 1.2 billion population have access to the internet, but that still makes the country the third-biggest internet market after China and the US. The number of internet users in India is expected to almost triple to 300 million over the next three years.

Despite the new rules to block offensive content, India's internet access is still largely uncensored, in contrast to the tight controls in place in neighbouring China. But, like many other governments around the world, India has become increasingly nervous about the power of social media.

While civil rights groups have opposed the new laws, politicians say posting offensive images in a socially conservative country with a history of violence between religious groups presents a danger to the public.

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In other Anonymous related news, hackers operating under the auspices of the collective have reportedly compromised Syrian government networks and extracted memos, documents and emails advising President Bashar al Assad on how to handle the fallout over his bloody crackdown against protestors demanding regime change.

One alleged e-mail cited by Sky News appeared to advise Assad on how to approach his interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, who spoke with the leader late last year.

"Mentioning 'armed groups' in the interview is extremely important and we can use American and British articles to prove there are armed gangs," the adviser writes.

"American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are 'mistakes' done and now we are 'fixing it.’"

The president was also advised to emphasize how protests are sometimes handled in western countries, adding that "Syria doesn't have a policy to torture people, unlike the USA... We can use Abu Ghraib in Iraq as an example.”


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Since the beginning of the Anonymous movement’s gaining critical mass and bearing the AntiSec fruit, I have been wondering if there is indeed a master plan here. Anonymous claims that they are autonomous, amorphous, a swarm, but I think that is a generalization that only fits when you look at the whole.

When you start to bore down into the cells out there, you can readily see that there are pockets of cohesive groups. One of these groups is of course AntiSec. This group I think has acquired a certain amount of play within the Anonymous circle and thus would be a leadership cell.

Recent posts of the “Coming Insurrection” on sites that have been hacked by AntiSec have lead me to believe that there is a fair amount of Anarchist belief and activity within this cell of Anonymous. In fact, there seems to be from information sources, that AntiSec is in fact running the show now or would like to.

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Anonymous releases Symantec code

HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous has lived up to its promise and released Symantec source code.

The group has danced with Symantec for some time, but now that dance is over. "Symantec source code #Anonymous #AntiSec #OhIthinkSymantecGotButtraepd" says a tweet from the @AnonymousIRC account that links to Pirate Bay and Pastebin releases.

The Bittorrent link takes users to a download of PCanywhere source code for remote login software from Symantec, and the statement, "Symantec has been lying to its customers. We exposed this point thus spreading the world that ppl need" - #AntiSec #Anonymous. Spread and share!"

The Pastebin post is a set of emails apparently sent between hacker Yamatough and Symantec, in which the latter apparently was ready to pay $50,000 to retrieve its data.

This was also suggested by long term Anonymous mouthpiece Anonymousabu, who said, "Update regarding Symantec: Stay tuned for the f*cking lulz. Let's just say Symantec tried to give us 50,000 reasons not to release sources!" before the release went live.

"We are not in contact with the FBI. We are using this email account to protect our network from you. Protecting our company and property are our top priorities," says an email apparently sent from a Symantec representative that explains why the firm initially dropped out of the deal.

"We can't pay you $50,000 at once for the reasons we discussed previously. We can pay you $2,500 per month for the first three months. In exchange, you will make a public statement on behalf of your group that you lied about the hack (as you previously stated). Once that's done, we will pay the rest of the $50,000 to your account and you can take it all out at once. That should solve your problem.... Obviously you still have our code so if we don't follow through you still have the upper hand."

Symantec's official line is that no customer data is affected and that it has fixed any vulnerabilities that its code might have.

"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code has been accessed. Upon investigation of the claims made by Anonymous regarding source code disclosure, Symantec believes that the disclosure was the result of a theft of source code that occurred in 2006," it says in a statement on a page dedicated to the attack.

"Since 2006, Symantec has instituted a number of policies and procedures to prevent a similar incident from occurring. Furthermore, there are no indications that customer information has been impacted or exposed at this time."

We have asked Symantec to comment on this latest update.

Update
Symantec told us that the emails are genuine but were part of a law enforcement investigation into the attack. It added that the case is ongoing and it would like to stay quiet on the details.

"In January an individual claiming to be part of the Anonymous' group attempted to extort a payment from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they claimed to have in their possession. Symantec conducted an internal investigation into this incident and also contacted law enforcement given the attempted extortion and apparent theft of intellectual property," said a spokesperson.

"The communications with the person(s) attempting to extort the payment from Symantec were part of the law enforcement investigation. Given that the investigation is still ongoing, we are not going to disclose the law enforcement agencies involved and have no additional information to provide." µ

Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/15zMo)
Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/15zMo)

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'Anonymous' hacks personal info of Oakland officials

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- 'Anonymous' has just released the personal information of some of Oakland's top city officials online in response to clashes between Occupy Oakland and the police.

Anonymous said they are disgusted and shocked by the behavior of Oakland city officials. So they have released the personal information of city officials including the mayor, the city council and the city administrator and the police chief. The details they have made public include home addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and email addresses.

The group posted a statement addressed to the people they targeted saying "we have been actively monitoring your behavior. You tear gassed us and arrested us and beat us. The people on this list are supposed to represent the best of what the city of Oakland has to offer. If they are the best why is there so much trouble within the police department and the city of Oakland?" They end the statement by saying "you should have expected us."

Anonymous is an internationally known hacking group tied to computer attacks on the Pentagon, the White House and other government organizations.

This story is still developing. ABC7 News will bring you reaction from Oakland city officials as soon as possible.

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Brazilië daagt Twitter voor de rechter om verwijdering accounts

Brazilië wil dat Twitter ervoor zorgt dat accounts die politiecontroles doorgeven verwijderd worden. Doet het bedrijf dat niet, dan stapt het land naar de rechter, meldt persbureau AFP.

Voor elke dag dat Twitter niet aan de eis voldoet eist Brazilië een dwangsom van 200.000 euro. Brazilië is bang dat dit soort accounts verkeersveiligheidscampagnes en opsporingsacties ondermijnen.

In januari maakte Twitter bekend dat het berichten gaat blokkeren als de inhoud in strijd is met lokale wetgeving. De sociale netwerksite heeft zijn technologie verfijnd, zodat het berichten en accounts kan censureren per land.

Twitter heeft nog niet op de Braziliaanse klacht gereageerd.

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op dinsdag 07-02-2012 om 19:52:33 LOL!! press doesn't seem to understand #Symantec got trolled. Code was always set for public release since beginning #Anonymous #AntiSec reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 7 februari 2012 21:47 schreef YazooW het volgende:

Anonymous en Undercover op pedojacht (promo)

ra ra waar zal dit toch over gaan...
Volgende week zondag bij Undercover in Nederland.

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Op dinsdag 7 februari 2012 22:17 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Heeft Anonymous die dan?

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Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers

Pro-Kremlin organisation reportedly pays hundreds of thousands of pounds to network of internet users to help political cause

The Russian youth group Nashi has paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to a vast network of bloggers, journalists and internet trolls to create flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin and discredit his political rivals, according to a haul of thousands of emails allegedly sent to and from the group that have been released by Russian hackers.

The mass of data appears to show evidence of the sinister tactics used by Nashi, and includes:

• Price lists for pro-Putin bloggers and commenters which indicate that some are paid as much as 600,000 roubles (£12,500) for leaving hundreds of comments on negative stories about Putin.

• Plans to pay more than 10m roubles to buy a series of articles about Nashi's annual Seliger summer camp in two popular Russian tabloids.

• Calls for paid Nashi activists to "dislike" anti-regime videos posted on YouTube.

• Ideas for smear campaigns against what one activist calls the "fascist" Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, such as a cartoon video likening him to Hitler and a suggestion someone dress up like the blogger to beg for alms in front of the US embassy.

The group of Anonymous hackers told online news portal Gazeta.ru in an interview that they carried out the hack, planned since spring of last year, "as a sign of protest against the government's actions in the public internet sphere".

Opposition leaders have accused Nashi of being behind a series of attacks, including repeated scuffles with the liberal youth leader Ilya Yashin and an incident in which ammonia-laced cola was thrown in the face of the former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov. Nashi denied being involved in the latter.

Navalny told the Guardian: "These strategies, what they do on the internet and how they gather protests, are very similar. [Nashi's] main problem is that they don't have real people who are ready to say something in support of them. They don't have one person who supports them for free. So they pay."

The current leader of Nashi, Nikita Borovikov, said: "For several years, I've got used to the fact that our email is periodically hacked. When I heard the rumours that it had been hacked, I wasn't shocked, and have paid no attention to this problem. I'm a law abiding person, and have nothing to fear of hiding, so I pay no attention."

Tracking the Internet Trolls

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The BBC tracks down a notorious Internet troll. Catch the full episode here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/pan(...)_9693000/9693594.stm

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KPN slachtoffer van computerhack

KPN is vorige maand slachtoffer geworden van een geslaagde hackaanval. Dat heeft het bedrijf vanmiddag gemeld. De hacker(s) slaagden erin toegang te krijgen tot servers met klantgegevens van particulieren en bedrijven zoals adressen, telefoonnummers en bankrekeningnummers.

De hack werd op 20 januari ontdekt, aldus een woordvoerder van KPN tegen de NOS. Het bedrijf heeft naar eigen zeggen “onmiddellijk” maatregelen genomen om de gegevens van klanten “maximaal” te beschermen. Een week later bleken de hackers echter nog steeds toegang tot de servers te hebben. Met behulp van internetbedrijf FoX IT lukte het KPN uiteindelijk een aantal dagen later om het probleem op te lossen.

Het is niet duidelijk van hoeveel klanten de hackers de gegevens hebben kunnen inzien, maar volgens KPN zijn er geen gegevens gestolen. KPN heeft alle “relevante” instanties, waaronder justitie en het het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum, geïnformeerd over het hack en belooft “alle medewerking” om de hackers op te sporen. Het Landelijk Parket van het OM heeft inmiddels een onderzoek lopen. KPN belooft te onderzoeken hoe de servers in de toekomst “nog beter” tegen digitale aanvallen kunnen worden beschermd.

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Ex-U.S. spy chief says may take crisis for new cyber law

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies have unique capabilities that can help protect American companies from cyber espionage and attack, but it will probably take a crisis to change laws to allow that type of cooperation, a former spy chief said on Monday.

Intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency are authorized to operate abroad but generally are restricted from working within the United States,

"Until we have a banking collapse or electric power goes off in the middle of a snowstorm for eight weeks, or something of that magnitude, we're likely just to talk about it and not do much," Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, said.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate have separate efforts under way on legislation aimed at improving cybersecurity.

The House intelligence committee in December approved a bill that would allow U.S. spy agencies to share cyber-threat intelligence with private companies. Some critics worry that could lead to government surveillance of private data.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the Senate will take up "comprehensive" cybersecurity legislation this year.

"There are unique things that the government can do. For example code-breaking. The private sector out there does not do code-breaking," McConnell, a former National Security Agency director, told Reuters in an interview.

"How would you harness that capability and then make it available to the private sector in a way that their infrastructure could be better protected?"

A U.S. intelligence report last year pointed the finger at China and Russia as using cyber espionage to steal U.S. trade and technology secrets.

McConnell gives an example that if NSA, which conducts electronic eavesdropping to detect foreign threats, observed a cyberthreat against the U.S. private sector, "NSA is powerless to do a thing other than issue a report."

He said in the area of cyber exploitation, such as reading an adversary's mail without leaving fingerprints, the United States, Britain and Russia are probably the best.

The United States also has the ability to conduct cyber attacks, which would be to degrade or destroy an adversary's computerized system, and has used it.

Has the United States used its cyber attack capability? "Yes," McConnell said. Did it work? "Yes."

McConnell, now vice chairman at the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm in charge of cyber activities, did not elaborate on the use of a cyber attack capability.

"Do we have the ability to attack, degrade or destroy? Sure. If you do that, what are the consequences? That is the question," he said.

McConnell said the priority is to protect the country's critical infrastructure such as the financial sector, the electric power grid and transportation from cyber attack and stop the theft of intellectual property through cyber espionage.

"There will be a thousand voices on what is the right thing to do," and it will probably require a crisis to reach consensus, he said.

"All I'm arguing is the government has unique capability, figure out a way to harness the capability in the defense of the nation."

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Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the talk of how they hoped a new tone could be found in the debate? Yeah. Apparently someone forgot to send that memo to RIAA boss Cary Sherman, who has taken to the pages of the NY Times to lash out at those who fought against SOPA/PIPA, chalking the whole thing up to a massive "misinformation" campaign by Google and Wikipedia. The whole thing is chock full of ridiculous claims, so we might as well go through it bit by bit.

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Senate sneaks in SOPA under a new name

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) launches a second round of attacks in an attempt to censor the Internet.

After trying to adopt Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), both pieces of legislation turned out to be a disaster, causing outrage among Internet giants and ordinary users alike. Congress had to retreat. However it's determined to get what it wants this time.

After the shelving of SOPA and PIPA back in January Reid stated,“There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved.”

As RT reported last month, Senator Reid added that lawmakers will“continue engaging with all stakeholders to forge a balance between protecting Americans’ intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the Internet.”

The vote on the anti-piracy legislation was postponed from its January 24date after Wikipedia and other popular websites went dark to protest the draft law.

Now the battle for online freedom continues.

The rebuttal to push Internet-regulating legislation has transformed into a new cybersecurity bill. The particulars of the latest attempt by senators to censor the Internet have not been disclosed to the public.

However some leaks suggest that the bill will grant the authority to crack down on the Internet to the executive branch of power, namely the White House. It looks highly possible taking into consideration that the legislation has to come out of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.

The same Lieberman who earlier co-sponsored the so called Kill Switch bill that could allow the president of the United States to "declare a cybersecurity emergency," and practically shut down the Internet.

After outrage from Internet advocacy groups, Kill Switch never made it in the Senate. This time it may be back under a new name.

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Op donderdag 9 februari 2012 11:40 schreef picodealion het volgende:

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Iemand dit gezien? De moeite waard om te kijken?

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KPN sloeg groot alarm na hackaanval

De hackaanval bij KPN vorige maand had grotere gevolgen kunnen hebben voor klanten dan eerder gecommuniceerd. De hacker(s) slaagden erin toegang te krijgen tot servers met klantgegevens van particulieren en bedrijven zoals adressen, telefoonnummers en bankrekeningnummers.

Na de ontdekking van de hack op 20 januari werd zelfs de hoogste alarmfase, code Rood, afgekondigd. Dat meldt de NOS. Omdat de software van het KPN-computersysteem niet up to date was konden hackers gemakkelijk toegang krijgen.

Na de ontdekking van de hack zou het bedrijf “onmiddellijk” maatregelen genomen hebben om de gegevens van klanten “maximaal” te beschermen, toch bleken de hackers een week later nog steeds toegang tot de servers te hebben. Met behulp van internetbedrijf FoX IT lukte het KPN uiteindelijk een aantal dagen later om het probleem op te lossen.

De NOS meldt vanavond dat KPN heeft toegeven dat de hackers de mogelijkheid hadden om alarmnummer 112 voor klanten met een abonnement met telefonie en internet onbereikbaar te maken. KPN had door het lek genoodzaakt kunnen worden het hele netwerk uit te schakelen om gegevens en klanten te beschermen.

In een reactie laat de KPN vanavond weten dat er “voor zover” zij nu “kunnen overzien” geen gegevens zijn gestolen en dat het telecombedrijf. KPN:

. “KPN begrijpt dat mensen zich mogelijk zorgen maken over hun gegevens. Voor zover we nu kunnen overzien is er van onze klanten niets gestolen of kapotgemaakt. KPN heeft meteen actie ondernomen en is met een team van meer dan 100 man aan het werk gegaan om ervoor te zorgen dat mensen kunnen blijven bellen, internetten, zaken doen. En zijn extra maatregelen genomen om systemen en gegevens nog beter te beschermen.”

Volgens KPN heeft het zoveel mogelijk geprobeerd “klanten zolang als dat mogelijk was niet actief op de hoogte te stellen van de inbraak in het IT-netwerk van KPN door een inbreker”. Daarvoor geeft het bedrijf drie redenen:


. 1. onze dienstverlening voor onze klanten (internetten, bellen, TV, websites, zaken doen via het internet) veilig te stellen en onnodige onrust in de samenleving te voorkomen
. 2. te voorkomen dat de hacker(s) in de gelegenheid is om gealarmeerd door de melding – snel grote schade aan te richten bij ons en onze klanten
. 3. de opsporing van de hacker(s) niet te verstoren
Na zorgvuldige afweging en overleg met de autoriteiten heeft KPN besloten tot een daadkrachtige aanpak in stilte.

KPN kondigde vanavond eveneens een “diepgaande analyse” aan naar de hack.

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Op donderdag 9 februari 2012 20:17 schreef DjinN het volgende:

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En waaruit maak jij op dat Anonymous achter de hack zat ?

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Hackers target iPhone manufacturer to protest harsh working conditions

Hackers protesting harsh working conditions at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn dumped what they said were megabytes of private data belonging to the outsourcing giant.

"Note: The passwords inside these files could allow individuals to make fraudulent orders under big companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, and Dell," a group calling itself Swagg Security wrote in a message posted to Pastebin. "Be careful." The purported contents were made available in a torrent on The Pirate Bay.

The group said Foxconn's network was protected by "an appropriate firewall, but fortunately to our intent, we were able to bypass it almost flawlessly." Over several days, the hackers claimed, they were able to access most data of significance. It didn't take long after the dump for images such as this one to circulate that suggested Foxconn systems were configured in ways that revealed key information about its internal topology.

Several Foxconn servers were reportedly taken offline over the past day.

The stunt coincided with protests planned at a half-dozen of Apple retail stores around the world by demonstrators opposing the conditions of workers who manufacture iPhones and other Apple hardware. A recent series carried by The New York Times documented long hours, low pay, and an explosion that killed several workers at Foxconn, which also makes hardware for Cisco, Dell, Sony, HP, and others.

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http://www.embassyhomepage.com/ Embassy in London UK hacked and data leaked via pastebin.com/)
http://www.un.org/ (Official United Nation Website hacked by anonymous via pastebin.com )
http://www.police.uk/ (DOWN 12:30AM GMT)
http://www.mos-partya.ru/ (DOWN 4:01PM GMT)
http://www.astalavista.com/ (IT news and security community Hacked and DB leaked via http://pastebin.com/wSUSxpPx)
http://www.astalavista.net/ (IT news and security community Hacked and DB Leaked)

Source: http://cylaw.info/?p=420

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US government losing 'hearts and minds' social media battle

Other governments and some companies are using social media to address dissent, a DARPA program officer said

The US government is losing a race in cyberspace - a social-networking race for the hearts and minds of internet users - a computer security expert said yesterday.

Other countries - and many companies - are using social-networking tools to their advantage, while the US government has taken tiny steps forward, said Rand Waltzman, a program manager focused on cybersecurity at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The Chinese government pays citizens to patrol social-networking sites and dispute negative talk about all levels of government or any aspect of Chinese life, and companies such as Dell and Best Buy are training workers to respond to complaints on Facebook and other social-networking services, Waltzman said at the Suits and Spooks security conference in Arlington, Virginia.

US regulations prevent the government from undertaking similar campaigns, he said. "Any time you want to go to the bathroom, you need presidential approval," he said.

The US will not be able to protect its residents if it cannot engage in its own covert social-media operations, Waltzman said.

Waltzman told about a US special forces unit in Iraq in 2009 that attacked an insurgent paramilitary group, killed 16 of the members of the group and seized a "huge" weapons cache. As soon as the US unit left the scene, the Iraqi group returned, put the bodies on prayer mats, and uploaded a photograph from a cheap mobile phone, he said. The group put out a press release in English and Arabic.

The insurgent group "made it look like someone had come in and murdered these guys in the middle of prayer, unarmed," Waltzman said.

Meanwhile, it took the US soldiers three days to get approval to post their video of the fighting, he added. "In social media time, three days is forever," he said. "The damage has already been done, and there's no way to take it back."

When Waltzman recently asked one US Department of Defense official why the agency doesn't use social media more, the official said the agency needed to gain knowledge before putting ideas into practice. "To do what he's suggesting, it will take forever," he said. "The Chinese, on the other hand, their concept is called practice to practice. Practice makes perfect."

American politicians seem to be conflicted about using social media covertly, Waltzman said. Some denounce China for its social-media propaganda efforts, yet there are several examples in the 2010 congressional election campaigns of astroturfing, of using fake grassroots campaigns to support candidates, he said.

While US companies and politicians use social-media in a variety of ways, there's public outcry when US intelligence and law enforcement agencies consider monitoring social media or look into covert uses of social media, Waltzman said.

"What you see is this entire social-media space is absolutely filled with hypocrisy and contradiction," he said. "While we have our hands tied, our adversaries - nation states, terrorist organisations, criminal organisations, any kind of nutcase group you want - have completely free hands, and are going ahead full speed."

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Tribler is vrij en opensource-P2P-programma voor onder meer Windows, Mac en Linux. In 2007 bestond het ontwikkelaarsteam uit 20 Nederlanders, personen van zowel de TU Delft als de Vrije Universiteit uit Amsterdam. Tribler zou de mogelijkheid bieden videocontent (van bijvoorbeeld YouTube) met een BitTorrent-methode te doorzoeken wat dan bekeken kan worden via internet. Het zou ook geschikt gemaakt worden voor settopboxen.

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'The only way to take it down is to take the internet down,' says Dr Pouwelse of Delft University of Technology.

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Anonymous threatens cyber crusade against Israel

International hacker group accuses Israeli gov't of "crimes against humanity," vows revenge in YouTube video.

International hacker group Anonymous released a video on YouTube overnight Thursday threatening to launch a crusade against the Israeli government, who it accused of committing "crimes against humanity."

The release of the clip came amid an internet feud between Israeli and Arab hackers, which began in early January when a Saudi hacker published tens of thousands of Israeli credit card numbers on the Internet. Anonymous, a loosely organized international group of hackers who seek anarchy through disrupting government and law enforcement networks, threatened to shut down the Knesset website in June, but failed to carry out the threat.

In the video released overnight Thursday, Anonymous accuses Israel of bettering "the lives of a select few, while carelessly trampling the liberties of the masses."
Related:

The group charges the Israeli government with circulating propaganda through political lobbying and the mainstream media.

"Your Zionist bigotry has displaced and killed a great many. As the world weeps you laugh while planning your next attack," the video states, making reference to talk of a potential Israeli military strike against Iran. "You label all who refuse to comply with your superstitious demands as anti-Semitic and have taken steps to ensure a nuclear holocaust...we will not allow you to attack a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies."

Anonymous threatens in the YouTube clip to wage a three-step campaign against the Israeli government's "reign of terror."

"Step one will be initiated after the release of this video and will be comprised of systematically removing you from the internet. Step two will be later disclosed and is already in initiation; and, as for step three, well, think of this one as a present from Anonymous to you - we will not stop until the police state becomes a free state. We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget. Israeli government expect us," the video warns in its conclusion.

Anonymous Message To The State of Israel

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On Saturday protests are planned across the world against Acta - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty has become the focus of activists associated with the Anonymous hacking network because of concerns that it could undermine internet privacy and aid censorship.

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500 persoonsgegevens KPN klanten online – maildienst KPN offline


De maildienst van KPN is vanmiddag niet bereikbaar nadat er een groot aantal accountgegevens met wachtwoorden van KPN-klanten online zijn gezet. Deze zouden bij de hack die woensdag bekend werd zijn buitgemaakt, schrijft Tweakers.net.

Webmail.kpnmail.nl en pop3.kpnmail.nl zouden sinds vrijdagmiddag niet meer bereikbaar zijn. KPN heeft de mailservers uit voorzorg offline gehaald na de publicatie van wachtwoorden van mail-accounts van klanten. Volgens Webwereld.nl zouden er meer dan 500 persoonsgegevens gelekt zijn. Volgens Webwereld zou de lijst authentiek zijn.

Afgelopen woensdag claimde KPN nog dat er na de hack geen gegevens gestolen zouden zijn. De hack zou het gevolg zijn geweest van achterstallig onderhoud van KPN, dat verzuimde nieuwe software te installeren.

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Anonymous took down cia.gov

Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov.

­At approximately 3:10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. #UMAD?#Anonymous."

The CIA website became the latest victim in a series of attacks conducted by the elusive group of hackers against US law enforcement agencies and copyright holders. As RT reported earlier, Anonymous took credit for crashing the websites of the US Department of Homeland Security, which was quickly revived, and the FBI.

The CIA seems to be less prepared for fighting Anonymous than other agencies. If the work of dhs.gov was revived in mere minutes, the CIA's site is still down even more than two hours after the attack. One of the twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous explained the reasons of the attack: "We do it for the lulz," referring to the popular online abbreviation "for laughs."

In previous occasions Anonymous has orchestrated humiliating assaults with massive distributed denial of services attacks.

The technique also known as a DDoS, is a concentrated effort by multiple individuals to make a network busy to its intended users. The end results in a server overload

Even though DDoS attacks are a violation of the Internet Architecture Boards’s proper use policy, it has become an effective tool for Anonymous to spread online mayhem.

Two weeks ago, the online group also released the audio of a conference call between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s Scotland Yard counterpart targeting members of the largely untraceable group. It was done as part of the FuckFBIFriday campaign.

Along with the secret audio leak, numerous sites fell prey to Anonymous’ crippling assault including several entertainment industry giants and government sites.

The websites for the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group were among the first to go, with the sites for US Copyright Office, Warner Music, BMI, and RIAA following suit shortly after.

These attacks were in retaliation for a raid on Megaupload, where the feds raided the file sharing service site which led to more than 20 warrants being served and several arrests internationally.

This is not the first time Anonymous takes down cia.gov. In June, as part of a 51-day-long hacking spree, the Anonymous affiliated group LulzSec took down the CIA's site for a few hours. The reason was the same as today: "For the lulz."

We will bring you more details as they develop.

twitter:

FredrikNilsson4 twitterde op zaterdag 11-02-2012 om 02:58:32 2 MINUTES LEFT! 92.123.68.25 & 50.56.116.239 #Anonymous #Chanology #OpChanologyReborn reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 februari 2012 07:24 schreef Nemephis het volgende:

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_{dat heeft niks met ACTA te maken... en die CIA-"hack" ook niet -- no offence}

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_bron

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http://www.asmaassad.com/ (Official websites of Syria’s First Lady Hacked)
http://www.parliament.go.ug/ (DOWN)
http://www.cosmomedia.es/ (DEFACED)
http://hernandococinas.com/ (DEFACED)
http://cirugiaplasticalinares.es/ (DEFACED)
http://cityguia.es/ (DEFACED)
http://www.estheticinternacional.es/ (DEFACED)
http://canalformativo.es/ (Defaced)
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ (Texas Department of Public Safety HACKED and db leaked via pastehtml)
http://www.mobilepd.org/ (City of Mobile Police Department Hacked and db leaked via pastehtml.com)
http://www.alabama.gov (hacked major data leaked over 40k citizens personal info more details via pastehtml.com)

Source: http://cylaw.info/?p=420

twitter:

Anon_Central twitterde op zaterdag 11-02-2012 om 05:49:27 Commander X has escaped into exile in Canada. Ok.. grow a weed farm there braw. good luck. reageer retweet

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PLF2012 twitterde op zaterdag 11-02-2012 om 05:27:51 "I will return to my native USA when I get my Pardon and a fucking apology. Until then, FUCK the FBI and the USA!" ~~ Commander X reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 februari 2012 13:45 schreef borisz het volgende:
Maxime Verhagen gebruikt nu het kinderpornoargument ivm ACTA. Vreselijk.