Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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Anonymous Hackers taken down the US Copyright Office Website

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Anonymous started their #CISPABlackout with some websites which started to support Anonymous against CISPA and keep their website down but the Latest news came which will really a shocking one the US COPYRIGHT WEBSITE http://www.copyright.gov/ is down really a BAD NEWS for U.S who passed the CISPA.

From many days Anonymous is collecting their members to take down their websites on 22/04/2013 (TODAY) some of them with Anonymous but some of them refused, Anonymous also appealed to high profile websites like Google, facebook and many others which is popular on the Internet but no one knows that Anonymous going to give a hard Cyber-attack to US by defacing http://www.copyright.gov/.

Below is the Screenshot of http://www.copyright.gov/ which is taken by Anonymous Hackers themselves but seems US personally taken down the site because it is taking too long to respond.

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Amerikaanse werkgevers kunnen Facebook-login opeisen

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Eén van de elementen, zo meldt nieuwssite The Huffington Post, is dat werkgevers de socialemediawachtwoorden van hun werknemers kunnen opeisen. De Democraten wilden dat afzwakken met een amendement, om de privacy van de burgers te beschermen en om te verhinderen dat werkgevers zich zouden voordoen als hun werknemer op socialemediaplatformen.

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Anonymous A Call For A Global Day Of Resistance

Greetings World –

We are Anonymous. We hereby call forth this May 1st a Global Day Of Resistance. We call upon every person in the world, every city or town, every country; Unite, rise up – and take back the public commons from the oppressors. March in your streets, occupy public space – be free and reclaim your world. And stay. Become part of a world-wide “Global Spring”. From Idle No More in Canada to the pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain, on May 1st let us shake the world and the very foundations of all power and authority.

Anonymous will use all the tools at our disposal to facilitate and encourage this Global Day of Awakening. We are tired of having activists around the world hunted, jailed – and abused. We are tired of watching our own fall. And so Anonymous will stand with our freedom loving comrades all over the world and in unity raise our fist to the sky and shout: We Are Not Afraid!

We Are Anonymous

We Are Everywhere

We Are Legion

We Do Not Forgive

We Do Not Forget

One week from today world, Expect Us

Anonymous May Day Website – www.MayDay.tk

Anonymous Global Website – www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

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Australian LulzSec hacker arrested

Australian police have arrested a "well-respected" IT security professional and self-proclaimed leader of an international hacking ring after he allegedly infiltrated a government website this month.

The 24-year-old man, from Point Clare on the NSW central coast, claims to be a leader of the international hacking group LulzSec.

LulzSec, an abbreviation of ''lulz'' (laughs) and security, was formed in 2011. The group has claimed responsibility for multiple high-profile cyber attacks, including against Sony, Rupert Murdoch's News International, the CIA and other government organisations. They are also associated with prominent international hacking group Anonymous.

The man, known online as Aush0k, is a "well-respected" IT professional who works at the Sydney branch of an international security IT company, where he had access to sensitive information from clients that included government agencies, police said.
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He used this information to gain access to and deface a government website from his computer, which has been seized by police. Police would not confirm details of the hack or the website, but said that it was not a federal government site.

"He took advantage of a commonly known exploit to access the [website], and then put a back door in so that he could gain further access to the website and also posted other things on that website", said Detective Superintendent Brad Marden, from the Australian Federal Police.

The man is not thought to have accessed personal private information stored on the site.

"We are not dealing with small petty crime here," said Commander Glen McEwen, manager of cyber crime operations at the AFP. "The potential for such access has huge ramifications for society.

"The potential for damage is immeasurable. This is not harmless fun. This is serious."

The man appears to have been working alone, police said, but has been involved with LulzSec for some time, and his multiple claims to be a figurehead of the group did not go unchallenged by other members of the online community.

Police said his arrest at work on Tuesday evening in Sydney was the first by the AFP of a LulzSec member.

In the United States last week, LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger, 25, pleaded guilty to a computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment and was sentenced to one year in prison and community service.

In April, British LulzSec hacker Ryan Ackroyd, 26, pleaded guilty to cyber attacks on Sony, Nintendo, News International and the Arizona State Police.

The AFP said they discovered the man's online activities less than two weeks ago, as part of investigations into cyber crime. He is allegedly known to international law enforcement agencies.

The man was released on bail on Tuesday evening and will face court in May on charges of unauthorised access and modification to restricted data.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-(...)w.html#ixzz2RMd6uHUl

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Web censorship: the net is closing in

Across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we're not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state

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March against Monsanto

Anonymous plans day of global protest against biotech company.

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More than 250 marches have been organised around the world in response to Anonymous' call for action against genetically modified (GMO) crops. Their target: Monsanto, the multinational biotech corporation. Citing concerns over food safety, political favouritism, and environmental impacts, Anonymous and local activists are calling for a day of revolt against the GMO giant on May 25.

Anonymous- #OpMonsanto

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March against Monsanto



This is a Call to Action for a
Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto Everywhere

Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto & it's enablers like the FDA, USDA, EPA, GMA, BIO, and the processed food companies that use Monsanto's products.

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ParttimeOccupy twitterde op zondag 28-04-2013 om 01:49:38 #freecb3rob #anonymous support #agains Spamhaus http://t.co/ULX4XT8Tnv reageer retweet

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CISPA godfather claims Anonymous is after him

A co-author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act says the hacktivist group Anonymous threatened him and others members of Congress on account of their support of CISPA.

The cybersecurity act known as CISPA overwhelmingly passed in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month only to ultimately once again stall in the Senate. Citing the same privacy concerns brought up by opponents outside of Washington, lawmakers in the Senate now say they are unlikely to consider the bill, suggesting that for the second time in as many years CISPA will fail to find its way out of Congress.

But even if those privacy woes indeed warranted a negative reaction from US senators, a co-author of CISPA suggests members of Anonymous had something to do with the defeat.

During a recent interview with Washington, DC-based The Hill, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) said Anonymous hacktivists threatened members of Congress and encouraged anti-CISPA activists to attack supporters of the bill that he co-authored with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan).

"Anonymous was threatening us. Anonymous was telling [others] to shut down people who supported the bill and that kind of thing," Ruppersberger told the paper during an interview published over the weekend.

When CISPA was introduced by Rogers and Ruppersberger for the first time in 2011, public outcry over alleged privacy violations spurred a legion of opponents to protest on the Web and on the streets. Upon the bill’s reintroduction earlier this year, a similar call to arms was made for privacy advocates to stand up and fight against the argumentative cyber act.

CISPA was described by its authors as being able “to provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities,” but its opponents have raised a number of questions about at what cost. Under CISPA, federal agencies — namely the US Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice — would intercept and monitor Internet traffic in order to analyze and deter any attempted cyberattacks. Critics have condemned it, however, saying it essentially allows online businesses to escape liability when letting Uncle Sam spy on Internet activity.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the largest anti-CISPA groups, wrote of the bill, “It is written so broadly that it allows companies to hand over large swaths of personal information to the government with no judicial oversight — effectively creating a ‘cybersecurity’ loophole in all existing privacy laws.”

Citing the growing opposition this time around, Rep. Ruppersberger told the Hill recently that he purposely asked other members of Congress favoring his bill to stay silent on the issue until the last moment possible to avoid an alleged backlash: three days before the act went up for vote in the House, recalls the Hill, the number of co-sponsors of CISPA jumped from two to 36.

"I didn't want to put anybody who was going to support the bill ... to be subjected to those attacks in their districts, and calling and threatening and that type of thing, so we really decided to not get anybody on the bill right away and to educate people right to the end," Ruppersberger said.

What exactly Ruppersberger means by attacks isn’t exactly obvious, but the call-to-arms that occurred leading up to the recent House vote is virtually inescapable. As with last year, members of Anonymous — along with the EFF, American Civil Liberties Union and others — went quite public with their opposition to the bill as it was readied for a congressional vote.

Last Monday more than 200 websites went offline in protest of CISPA, and the website Reddit and Web browser Firefox both informed their users of the legislation with predominantly displayed messages.

On their part, one message circulated by Anonymous and viewed over 22,000 times appears void of any actual threat, and instead asks opponents to voice their opinion about the bill using a viral Internet campaign. “Anonymous has asked numerous companies to participate in an Internet blackout on Monday, April 22. But, regardless of what these companies choose to do, individuals like ourselves can still help spread awareness of this threat. Below is a link to an image that promotes the hashtag #StopCISPA on Twitter. Make it your profile image all day Monday. Leave it up as long as you want,” reads the post uploaded to PasteBin and attributed to Anonymous.

“Tweet to #CISPA Reps @Call_Me_Dutch and @RepMikeRogers and tell them you oppose their bill,” reads another highly-read posting. Yet another message, viewed more than 7,000 times in under a week, contained the publically available office phone numbers for every congressman that voted for CISPA, along with information on how to raise objections with members of the Senate.

Since the bills passed in the House, a number of Washington sources have suggested that the Senate will once again let the bill die. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said of CISPA that its "privacy protections are insufficient,” and the ACLU’s Michelle Richardson told US News & World Report that the bill was likely "too controversial” and “too expansive” to be considered by the Senate as is. Meanwhile, though, a report published by RT last week reveals that the federal government has already started to implement similar cybersecurity practices that put select parts of the Internet under the radar of the DHS.

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Barrett Brown Retains Top Lawyers For Legal Defense

May 1 Hearing

On May 1, 2013 Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney will determine “what, if anything should be done in utilizing [Barrett’s legal defense] funds towards the repayment of costs for Defendant’s court appointed representation.” Barrett’s supporters are delighted to announce that, after a long search, we have found a legal team that combines trial experience, tech-proficiency and a passion for justice. Attorneys Charles Swift and Ahmed Ghappour will be making an appearance in Barrett’s case this week.

We hope that the Court will turn over these funds to Barrett’s counsel of choice — per donors’ intent. The hearing will be held at 11:30AM at the Federal Courthouse, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242. If you are in Dallas, please come out and show your support.

About the Legal Team

Charles Swift is an attorney and former Navy officer, who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. While in the JAG Corps, he worked principally in the area of criminal defense, earning a reputation as a premier trial attorney. Most noteworthy is his quest for justice at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concluding with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

He has received numerous awards for his advocacy, including recognition as a Distinguished Alumnus at Seattle University School of Law, ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Medal for Distinguished Service, and was runner-up for Lawyer of the Year in 2005 as well as being named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in 2006 by the National Law Journal. Following his military career, Charles was a visiting professor and head of the Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, before leaving to enter private practice in Seattle.

Ahmed Ghappour (@amadooooo) is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He also directs the National Security Defense Project, an access to justice initiative that raises constitutional challenges in national security and cyber security cases.

Before founding the NSDP, he worked with Charles Swift, and took numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, Ahmed was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the US Extraordinary Renditions Program. He was also a senior legal advisor at a Cairo based human rights organization, where he worked on security sector reform, transparency and privacy, and international accountability litigation. Ahmed is also a computer engineer and hacked on high performance computers at SGI, Inc. before pursuing a career in the law.

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Barrett Brown Update: New Defense Team, Feds Fish For Activists

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Several new developments in the Barrett Brown case suggest that the playing field between the cyber-activist/journalist and the government may be starting to even out—at least a bit. But the feds aren’t giving up anytime soon.

On April 28 it was announced that Brown—currently facing upwards of 100 years behind bars for a slew of felonies ostensibly unrelated to his work as a journalist—had retained new defense counsel, including heavyweights certain to draw more attention to his case than ever before.

Brown’s new team will consist of attorneys Ahmed Ghappour and Charles Swift.

Swift’s name should be familiar to legal junkies in the post 9/11-era. A former Lt. Commander in the US Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, he represented Salim Hamdan in his successful bid to gain Supreme Court recognition of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo Bay detainees. Swift now focuses on national security and military litigation as a partner in his private practice.

For Brown, the change came not a moment too soon. As the target of what feels like an establishment pile-on, Brown will need the best defense money can buy—that is, if they’ll let him buy it.

On April 17, Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney had ordered the seizure of thousands of dollars in defense funds, solicited and held in an outside account with no connection to Brown. Although the funds were apparently listed in a still-sealed financial affidavit provided by Brown’s former court-appointed attorney, it remains unclear how the money could be legally seized.­

However, in a hearing on May 1, Judge Stickney essentially reversed himself, denying the government’s motion to transfer the funds to the court for remuneration to Brown’s original public defender. Stickney then accepted that the cash reserves be used to retain Ghappour and Swift.

The prosecution had seemingly hoped to hobble Brown by depleting his war chest and therefore his ability to defend himself. With the new ruling however, which allows him to spend the money on counsel of his choice—one not overburdened by a public defender’s typically heavy caseload—the court has dealt the prosecution a serious setback.

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OpUSA: Anonymous Hackers Send Message to President Obama

Hacktivist collectives from all over the world are making preparations for OpUSA, a new campaign against the US government that will be launched on May 7, 2013.

One of the Anonymous-affiliated groups involved in OpUSA, N4m3le55 Cr3w (Nameless Crew), has published a statement for US President Barack Obama and US citizens.

“Anonymous will make sure that this May 7th will be a day to remember. On that day Anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and recently you have committed war crimes in your own country,” the hackers stated. [link]

“You have killed hundreds of innocent children and families with drones, guns, and now bombs. America you have hit thousands of people where it hurts them, now it is our time for our Lulz. For this you shall pay,” they added.

“Obama you have seen the over three billion dollars’ worth of damage we have done to Israel in operation Israel. It hasn't even been a few weeks and the Anonymous collective has gotten stronger since then. Therefore we will not tread lightly as you have not treaded lightly.”

The hacktivists reiterate that OpIsrael has been a major success, despite the fact that Israeli officials have downplayed the seriousness of the attacks launched on April 7.

The N4m3le55 Cr3w threatens that OpUSA aims at “wiping [the US government] off the cyber map” with the aid of doxes, DNS attacks, defacements, redirects, data leaks, and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.

The hackers have also provided their supporters with the necessary tools to achieve these goals. They’ve listed links to various DDOS tools, hacking applications, and resource forums.

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An Interview with AnonGhost Team; #OpUSA is a Cause AnonGhost said

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Our News Editor Praveen Kashyap had some time with the Owner of AnonGhost Team and takes a short interview with AnonGhost Team; in the interview they answered the truth of #OpUSA and some important points about them also.

#OpUSA is the Hackers Operation, in which Hackers going to Launch Cyber Attacks on USA this 07/05/2013.

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Manila-Taipei cyberwar threatens to escalate as PHL group vows 'operation' | SciTech | GMA News Online

A cyberwar between pro-Philippine and pro-Taiwan hackers threatened to escalate Sunday after a hacker group claiming affiliation with the hacktivist collective Anonymous vowed to get back at pro-Taiwan counterparts for attacking the Commission on Elections' website.

The Anonymous #Philippine Cyber Army claimed Comelec's website www.comelec.gov.ph, which was still inaccessible Sunday afternoon, remained under cyber-attack by Taiwan.

"Comelec is still under cyber attack by Taiwan. It has dealt great damage and delay on our government website, most especially on about our activities for the coming May 13 elections," it said.

But the group also hinted at a retaliatory attack against those it claimed are attacking the Comelec website.

The Comelec's website had contained a tool that could help voters find their precincts on Election Day.

"Be ready your keyboard guys, the OP will be launched soon," it said, but did not elaborate.

On Saturday, several Philippine websites were apparent victims of a distributed denial-of-service attack. Hours later, several Taiwanese websites were attacked.

The attacks came in the wake of a row between the Philippines and Taiwan last Thursday. A 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead in the encounter in disputed waters.

Bron: www.gmanetwork.com

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Associated Press “Joins Anonymous”



INTERNET — News broke Friday that the government had wiretapped and extensively spied on the Associated Press for reporting on terrorist activities. This was quickly followed by a now-deleted tweet in support of the shadowy collective of hackers known as Anonymous.

A spokesperson for the AP refused to comment, leading some to speculate the tweet was the result of hackers from Anonymous. Others believe this was possibly a false flag attack from the CIA aimed at discrediting the AP.

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Hacker Group Anonymous Launches #OpPetrol to Target Global Oil Industry - US News and World Report

The oil and gas industry has found itself in the crosshairs of hacker activist group Anonymous, which recently announced plans to launch cyber attacks on countries involved in the global oil trade.

[READ: Why Our Energy Policy – and Fights – Are Outdated]

Dubbed Operation Petrol, the attacks are scheduled to take place June 20 according to The Hill and will focus on countries including the United States, Canada, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

"It has been a long time coming," the group said in a video posted on YouTube, singling out Saudi Arabia as having "betrayed Muslims" by trading oil in U.S. dollars.

The announcement by Anonymous comes as inquiries into potential oil price manipulation by companies such as BP, Shell and Statoil intensify. This week, investigators with the European Commission continued to delve into the trading activities of those companies after authorities raided their offices last week.

[READ: Facebook's Zuckerberg Takes Heat Over Keystone, Drilling Ads]

"Due to the recent negative press regarding alleged price fixing, it is assumed that BP, Royal Dutch Shell and the price-reporting agency Platts, will be at the top of the target list," U.K.-based cyber-security company CyByl told Platts.

The oil and gas sectors are no strangers to cyber attacks. Last December, Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company – revealed it had been the victim of an August 2012 cyber attack that affected tens of thousands of the company's computers.


Bron: www.usnews.com

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Press release for #OpUmea

Greetings world, we are Anonymous, and we are outraged.

This week, three guys who raped a girl with a wine bottle until she got internal injuries, was acquitted by the Swedish court. However, these guys were not acquitted by Anonymous. We are therefore callling upon the Anonymous collective to help us carry through with this operation.

The following text is from an article about the case:

"The prosecution recounted how the woman attended a party in Umeå, northern Sweden, in October last year where she met three 19-year-old men. She was acquainted with one of them. The charges said the men had taken her to a bedroom, where one had asked for oral sex while another exited the room only to return with an empty wine bottle. The Aftonbladet newspaper reported that the teen held the bottle up and said "Why don't we use this", before the men pinned her down on the bed and pried her legs open before inserting the wine bottle into her vagina. The men reportedly ended their actions when the girl started bleeding. One of the men allegedly told her not to report the incident to the police, which she nonetheless did. "

Since Anonymous as a collective firmly believes in human rights, meaning that every person have the right to their own bodies, we will never accept these kind of sexual abuse. For too many years now, people have stood by and watched while similar things happens, but Anonymous will no longer stand by and watch - we will act. And we have therefore decided to launch this operation, called #OpUmea, in which we will keep fighting this case until justice prevails. However, true justice cannot be brought in this case, because this girl will have to live with the memories of being forced to sex and abused by a wine bottle, even though she said no. The least we can do, is to show the rapists and the swedish court that no means no.

What will we do?
- We will encourage the girl to appeal the verdict and support her in her choice of doing so.
- We will try to get the media's attention.
- We will show the world that even if the corrupt court accept these kind of sexual harassments, Anonymous DO NOT.
- We will expose the rapists by publishing there name in the dox that is embedded in this press release.


What can you do?
- Spread this press release.
- Contact your local newspaper with this story and ask them to write about it.
- Help Anonymous spread flyers about this case on the streets.
- Get involved in the debate about this online, and don't forget to use the hashtag #OpUmea when you tweet about it.
- That these three guys gets cleared by the court is a sign that is wrong with our society - so get involved in politics or a social movement that fights for human rights.

Our goal with this operation is to get the girl to appeal the verdict and to get the three rapists punished for their crimes. Please note that we want these guys to be punished legally through a verdict against them in the swedish court. This operation does not include or encourage any illegal activites. So please DO NOT DDoS any site, order pizza, or visit the guys' houses. Let's do this the honest way.


The verdict (swedish): https://jumpshare.com/v/J1uiC1C9rrKSPbxEfIsw <- This information was legally acquired according to Swedish law - "2 kap 12 §
Dox on the three rapists: http://pastebin.com/msg08hEJ
Article about the case (English): http://www.thelocal.se/47920/20130515/#.UZVBzsjm49U
Article about the case (Swedish) http://www.folkbladet.nu/369496/tre-killar-frias-fran-valtakt

Do you want more information about #OpUmea? Please write to us on twitter:
twitter.com/SweAnon
twitter.com/AnonNewsSwe
twitter.com/iRBAWS

IRC channel for Anonymous Sweden: irc.anonops.com #anonsweden

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us, always!

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LulzSec hacker: 'Internet is a world devoid of empathy'

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LulzSec gained international attention when they hacked the Sony website in 2011, taking down the company's PlayStation network for weeks and accessing millions of users' accounts. The action was estimated to have cost the company over $100m (£65m).

The hacking collective went on to wreak a trail of chaos across the web during their 50-day campaign - targeting organisations including the FBI and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

In his first television interview, the Scottish teenager behind LulzSec's PR operation, Jake Davis, who on Wednesday was handed a 24 month sentence, talks to BBC Newsnight's Susan Watts about how he was increasingly drawn to life online.

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OpJustice4Kaitlyn Engaged



For Immediate Release -- #OpJustice4Kaitlyn

(Morgan Freeman Voice)

Greetings, Bigots. We are Operation Justice. The last operation our team conducted led to the case of Rehtaeh Parson's being re-opened and to an independent investigation into the actions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. You may have read about us. Now we are in Florida and you should have expected us.

This letter is addressed to the Indian River County State Attorney's Office:

You are currently pursuing 2 felony charges against an 18 year old girl by the name of Kaitlyn Hunt. Kaitlyn was arrested on 2/16/2013 at 20:15, her case number 2013-00022169. She was a student at Sebastian River High School before they expelled her (you don't have to be a child to be a bully, you just have to have the emotional maturity of one--don't worry, we will get to them later).

While in the course of performing your duties we feel that you've lost perspective. Tsk, tsk. The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors. She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement.

Now, either we are to interpret your charges to mean that:

1) Indian River County is publicly taking a stance against all relationships that form between two consenting adolescents -- or
2) We're left to wonder if the intolerance of Kaitlyn's partner's parents (or maybe it was yours) is really what started this case against her.

The real question is, who in your office didn't have the balls or the intelligence to put an end to this ridiculousness?

Intolerance has been the curse of this country since it's inception. Frankly, we're sick of it. Specifically, we're sick of paying the salaries of people like you. Now most of you probably interviewed for your jobs and were appointed there, but one or two ranks above you is some asshole that every few years has to go door to door and beg people to remember his or her name on election day. There are quite a few organizations in this country that would prefer that our elected officials not hire bigots that hunt down and file erroneous charges against young women because of their sexual orientation. The fact is, the puritanism you practice doesn't have a place in this world any longer.

We hope you'll keep all of this in mind because the next petition we put 200,000 signatures on will have your name on it (maybe you Brian Workman), or your bosses name on it, and we will be calling for a resignation. That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs and wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep. We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you.

We'll give you a few days to bask in your new found media attention and the public's disapproval of your performance. Don't worry, they'll call you.


Signed,

#OpJustice4Kaitlyn


We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
The corrupt fear us.
The honest support us.
The heroic join us.
Expect Us.


Twitter: @OpJustice
Inquiries: opjustice@mail.ru (This week we're Russian. привет bitches!)



Other Press Stuffs:

Letter from Kaitlyn's Mom: https://www.facebook.com/(...)doc/192326077586085/
Letter from Kaitlyn's Dad: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/doc/192333027585390/
Parents Petition: http://www.change.org/pet(...)ame-sex-relationship

Some articles:

Now.MSN: http://now.msn.com/kaitly(...)ver-gay-relationship
Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/(...)esbian-relationship/
Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/a(...)ame-sex-relationship

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After Girl Expelled From High School and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship, Anonymous Goes on the Offensive | Mother Jones

When Florida high school student Kaitlyn Hunt was 17, she began dating a 15-year-old teammate on her school's girls' basketball team. Kaitlyn's parents say the parents of the 15-year-old never complained to them about the (consensual) relationship. But a few months after Kaitlyn turned 18, the younger girl's parents had her arrested. She was charged with a felony—"lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12-16 years old." The girl's parents also succeeded in getting her expelled from school by appealing to the school board after the school and a judge refused to grant their request, according to Kaitlyn's mother, Kelly Hunt Smith.

"That is absolutely ludicrous," Smith wrote on Facebook last Friday in a widely shared plea for help. "We need justice in this situation, not to feed into these parents' hates and insanity."

Enter Anonymous, the global hacker collective, which recently has raised eyebrows by pursuing justice for rape victims. In this case, some of the same Anonymous members are rallying behind a girl they feel has been wrongly accused of sexual misconduct. On Saturday, they launched the twitter hashtag #OPJustice4Kaitlyn, and a press release that begins: "Greetings, Bigots."

"The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors," reads the release. "She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement."

By this afternoon, protestors had already gathered outside of the office of the Indian River County Sheriff's Department. In a hastily assembled press conference, County Sheriff Deryl Loar claimed that the case had nothing to do with the fact that Kaitlyn had been dating a girl. "If this was an 18-year-old male and a 14-year-old girl," he said, "it would be prosecuted in the same way."

Still, Loar suggested at another point that he would not have pursued the case if not for the complaint from the girl's parents: "When you have vocal victims, that enhances the case as well," he said.

Anonymous has a complicated relationship with sex and gender issues. Historically, the group has embraced homophobic language, most often by appending the term "fag" to anything that it dislikes—i.e., a "moral fag" is someone who takes his causes too seriously. On the other hand, Anonymous has significant number of gay members, according to McGill University anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, who is writing a book about the group. "It is kind of an extreme commitment to free speech," she says. "And it is also a way of being open to anyone."

While it may seem like a dramatic shift to go from targeting alleged rapists to defending someone accused of a sexual offense, Anonymous' choice of targets is "in some ways always about what they can exploit and find," Coleman told me. "It is pretty random oftentimes, at least initially. But that's what makes them so interesting and difficult to grapple with, because you can't necessarily predict what they will do."

Indian River Sheriff Loar told reporters today that he'd never heard of Anonymous. But if the experiences of law enforcement officials targeted by other Anonymous ops are any indication, that will soon change. Anonymous has pledged to deliver a petition with 200,000 names on it calling for the resignation of one or more of the authorities involved in the case.

"That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs or wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep," the press release reads, in the group's characteristic swagger. "We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you."

Bron: www.motherjones.com

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In fear of Anonymous Guantanamo Bay shuts down WiFi - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

In fear of Anonymous, the U.S. military has restricted access to wireless internet at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

According to a report issued by the Associated Press on Monday, May 20, officials responsible for the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have shut down WiFi access throughout the camp and banned the use of any social networks following threats from the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous.

In solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Anonymous launched Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO) last week. The operation is meant to raise awareness of the human rights violations currently going on at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

The following is an excerpt from a press release issued by Anonymous regarding Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO):

With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. … Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago.

Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.

A majority of prisoners currently at Guantanamo — 103 out of 166 — are on hunger strike to protest their conditions and their indefinite detention.

_{Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.}


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'Anonymous' a little less so, thanks to Israeli hackers | The Times of Israel

The worldwide hacker group is again targeting Israel, but an Israeli ‘task force’ has come up with a new tactic to fight back

After April’s largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned for Saturday. The followup campaign seeks to demonstrate that Israel did indeed sustain a great deal of damage and economic loss during the first effort.

The campaign has picked up some steam on hacker networks, but is unlikely to be as large as #OpIsrael. There were dozens of YouTube videos “advertising” that campaign with hundreds of thousands of views, while #OpIsraelReloaded showed up just a few times on the site, with only a few thousand views recorded, as of Thursday evening. Nevertheless, system administrators in government and enterprise are redoubling their network defenses to ensure that they weather the coming storm.

This time, however, the identities of the Anonymous hackers planning the attack are a little less, well, Anonymous. Born on the eve of the original #OpIsrael in April, a pro-Israel hacker team called the Israel Elite Force has been responding in kind, defacing sites in Arab countries and publishing what it claims are names and passwords for credit card, Facebook, bank and email accounts, and other information that is supposed to be secure.

The IEF’s latest gambit seeks to “rip the mask off the hackers attacking Israel,” the group says in a video. A message on a hacker site and in the IEF’s Twitter feed refers web surfers to a web page listing personal details of individuals the group says are key figures in the #OpIsrael hacking operations. The information was gathered, the group said, by hackers in its own organization, and with the help of a joint team of American and Israeli hackers.

“We know who you are,” the group says on its page. “You can not hide! You can not escape!” Following the introduction, the page posts several full-color photos, names, locations, and IP addresses of administrators and hackers who, it says, are actively involved in attempting to hack Israeli sites, and who hail from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, and Malaysia, among other places.

In a message on a hacker site, the IEF writers tell their readers that they “want us to meet someone,” and go on to provide extensive details – including details of his education (M.Sc. in economics), location, computer hosting service, and a photo – of one of the hackers. “This is only one person.. and i got OVER 9000!,” writes the Israeli hacker behind the revelation, adding, for good measure “Don’t try me, Don’t make me mad.”

If the information is really correct, said Tal Pavel of the security group Middle Eastern Net and a lecturer at Netanya Academic College, “it would be a heretofore unprecedented development in the Middle East hacking arena. One of the most important resources hackers use, and need, is their anonymity, and losing that — with the screen between the cyber and physical world removed — could have a major impact on the nature of the hacking conflict between Israel and its cyber-enemies.”

The only way to confirm the information about the hackers’ identities would be to do an extensive vetting process, said Pavel. “If the information is accurate it shows that they did very good research.” Such unmasking of cyber-identities is by no means unprecedented; Anonymous itself, Pavel said, has on several occasions “outed” pedophiles, discovering their real names and locations, and giving the data to police for further action. “So it’s quite possible that the information on the hackers is correct,” he added.

If it is, the revelations could open a new, and more serious, front in the ongoing cyberwar. “If Israeli hackers are revealing the names and phone numbers of Arab and Pakistani hackers, they might in turn target security personnel and publish details of top IDF generals, police officers, or even Mossad or Shabak [Shin Bet security agency] agents online.” Israel is known to have extensive networks of informers in the West Bank, for example; and if hackers specifically target the databases where that information is stored and release it, Israel’s intelligence operations could be severely hampered — not to mention the lives that would be lost, as the PA leadership executes the “collaborators” the hackers help uncover. “There’s no question that a border has been crossed,” said Pavel. “We will now have to see where that brings us.”

Bron: www.timesofisrael.com

Anonymous Message To Monsanto; We fight for farmers!

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Monsanto Employee Database

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The pastebin storing this information has been taken down.

I am reposting this for everyone's records. A chached version on google can still be found, but we're unsure how long it will take before that gets censored as well.

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"The Jester" trolls Westboro Baptist Church with hilarious hack

A hacker best known for claiming he took down WikiLeaks has foiled the Westboro Baptist Church's attempt to exploit the tragic tornado disaster that occurred in Moore, Okla., on Monday.

The much maligned congregation, known for hateful signs claiming that "God hates fags," registered the domain name GodHatesOklahoma.com a mere day after a category 5 tornado killed 24 people and displaced thousands. The site no doubt was intended to assert the notion that God allowed the tornado to happen as punishment for America's alleged embrace of homosexuality.

But then, at some point between then and earlier today, the site's content was replaced by a hacker known as the Jester. Instead of being bombarded by the WBC's hateful message, visitors were greeted by an image of Jesus flipping the bird with text that reads "Westboro Faptist Church— Even Jesus Hates You."

Below that, there was another message:

"'On the 8th day, God created hackers, and he saw that it was good.' From the Gospel according to @th3j35t3r."



After five seconds, the site would then redirect to a donation page for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief.

The page has since been disabled. Thankfully, the Jester tweeted out a cached version for posterity.

This isn't the first time the Jester has crossed paths with Westboro Baptist Church. In 2011, he knocked the organization's websites offline for over a month with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

The Daily Dot has reached out to the Jester for comment.

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Anonymous-linked groups publish EDL supporters' personal information | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Statement released in name of hacktivist group accuses EDL of inciting the subjugation of Muslims

Individuals claiming to be part of international hacktivist group Anonymous have published phone numbers and addresses for supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) as part of what they said was the first phase of a campaign to destroy the far-right street protest movement.

An audio statement posted on YouTube on Tuesday in the name of Anonymous UK accused the EDL of using the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby to spread a campaign of hate and bigotry and said that it would begin a "systematic and comprehensive decimation [sic]" of the group.

A list of what were said to be mobile phone numbers for senior named EDL figures were published online on Tuesday evening along with addresses of what were said to be donors to the far-right group.

Twitter accounts also re-published leaked details of hundreds of names and addresses linked to the EDL which were circulated on the web in 2010 after hackers broke in to one of the organisation's websites, prompting it to warn members of the potential for reprisals.

More than 1,000 members of the EDL held a rally near Downing Street on Sunday, where its leaders blamed Islam for the killing of Rigby, and the group has promised to step up its activities over the coming weeks.

Tuesday's statement, which was addressed to the EDL in the name of Anonymous UK, said: "We have been patiently observing your organisation as you have [indoctrinated] our young with your criminal mindset.

"Your constant belligerence, like a pack of raving ignoramuses, furthers only bigotry and segregation. You have angered us considerably and summoned our wrath irrevocably."

It added: "Last week, an innocent drummer, Lee Rigby, lost his life at the hands of two vile and demented human beings in the most horrific and heinous manner ever witnessed on the streets of Britain.

"This villainous public display has thrown the United Kingdom into mourning; every community and every congregation extending their deepest condolences.

"You, however, have used this as another excuse to further spread your campaign of hate, bigotry, and misinformation. Under the guise of national pride you have instigated crimes against the innocent and incited the subjugation of Muslims.

"We will not allow your injustices, your lies, and your stupidity, to further radicalise our youth into fearing and despising their fellow man. We will begin the systematic and comprehensive decimation [sic] of your cult. You will fall, we can say this with complete confidence. We are everywhere, you cannot hide, you cannot win."

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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PvdA wil meer bescherming ethische hacker

Iemand die een bedrijf test op zijn digitale veiligheid en door 'hacken' oprecht alleen maar zwakheden probeert aan te tonen, moet dat wel met een gerust hart kunnen doen. Dat vindt Astrid Oosenbrug van de PvdA. Ze wil een wetsontwerp voor bescherming van deze lieden gaan uitdenken, voor wanneer zo'n getest bedrijf toch niet blij is met de proef en aangifte doet. Ze vindt ethische hackers vergelijkbaar met klokkenluiders, zei ze woensdagmiddag.

Het Kamerlid gaat deze zomer eerst haar licht opsteken op Observe-Hack-Make, een internationale conferentie in ons land over technologie en beveiliging. Daar vind je alle deskundigen bij elkaar, verwacht ze.

Er is begin dit jaar al wel een leidraad van minister Ivo Opstelten (Veiligheid) verschenen voor ethisch hacken, maar die is Oosenbrug niet duidelijk genoeg over de bescherming.
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Anonymous disables Monsanto’s website - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Anonymous hacktivists temporarily disabled Monsanto’s website as part of Operation Monsanto (#OpMonsanto).

After the website of the U.S. based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto briefly went down on Wednesday, May 29, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter.

According to media reports, the announcement that Monsanto’s website was down came from a Twitter account belonging to Anonymous Press

This is not the first time Anonymous has challenged Monsanto. Last week, international hacktivist collective Anonymous led global protests against biotech giant Monsanto, also as part of Operation Monsanto (#OpMonsanto).

Previously, Anonymous hacked Monsanto’s corporate website, as well as hacking a public relations firm representing Monsanto.

According to a statement released by Anonymous, Monsanto is facing the wrath of activists “because they are altering the nature of our food supply without a concern about long term effects on human health, because they are creating a monopoly on the supply of seeds for farmers and, because of increasing evidences of long term environmental damages.”

Monsanto stands accused by Anonymous and others of destroying the environment and poisoning the world's food source. The complaints against Monsanto are simply too numerous to catalog here. Suffice it to say that for many environmentalists Monsanto and their genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other adventures in biotechnology, threaten the survival of the human race.

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Anonymous Operations Turkey democracy expects your help

Greetings Government of Turkey,

We are Anonymous.

We have watched for days with horror as our brothers and sisters in Turkey who are peacefully rising up against their tyrannical government have been brutalized, beaten, run over with riot vehicles, shot with water cannons and gassed in the streets. From the epicenter of their revolution in Taksim Square to every city in Turkey, the people have risen. Hundreds of thousands have taken and held the streets for days, despite the relentless assault of the police. Thousands have been arrested. Where differ you exactly from a Junta!

Turkey is supposed to be a so called “modern” democracy, but the Turkish government behaves like the petty dictators in China or Iran. Anonymous is outraged by this behavior, and we will unite across the globe and bring the Turkish government to it’s knees. We will attack every internet and communications asset of the Turkish government. You have censored social media and other communications of your people in order to suppress the knowledge of your crimes against them. Now Anonymous will shut you down, and your own people will remove you from power.

We have seen in the past ur totalitarianism the same as with Mubarak u know what happend to him don’t do this to ur own people bee wise and step down and let the people decide there fate.

To the people of Turkey No matter how dark it may seem, no matter how alone and abandoned you may feel know that the world is watching. Know that anonymous is working tirelessly around the clock to bring you every assistance., know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight. Don’t be ruled by them but rule over them “Think For Yourself, Question Authority” .

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

IRC: irc.cyberguerrilla.org | PORT 6667 | SSL PORT 6697 Fingerprint=21:05:1D:5B:FC:58:E6:E9:3C:F8:48:00:3A:C5:22:3A:95:52:FF:ED | IRC Client setup | /RULES || Channel #OpTurkey
Cyberguerrilla Webchat:

https://webchat.cyberguerrilla.org:9090/?nick=Anonymous&hellip;&channels=OpTurkey&prompt=1&uio=d4
https://kiwi.cyberguerril(...)errilla.org/OpTurkey

IRC: irc.anonops.com | PORT 6667 | SSL PORT 6697|| Channel #Turkey || Webchat: http://webchat.anonops.com/

After a series of peaceful demonstrations for preserving a recreational area in Istanbul city center which is planned to demolished for the construction of a shopping mall, Turkish police attacked the protesters violently with tear gas and water cannon, directly targeting their faces and bodies. Dozens of protesters are hospitalized and access to the park is blocked without any legal basis. Turkish media, directly controlled by the government or have business and political ties with it, refuse to cover the incidents. Press agencies also blocked the information flow.

Please share this message for the world to become aware of the police state created by AKP of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which is often considered to be a model for other Middle Eastern countries. Turkish democracy expects your help. Thank you!

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Anonymous declares #OpTurkey, attacks govt websites in support of protests — RT News

Anonymous claim to have taken down several websites across Turkey targeting municipal governments in Mersin and Izmir. The hacktivists have announced #OpTurkey to support anti-government protests that have been gripping the country for three days.

The operation was kicked off in response to the police crackdown of protests which have taken the country by storm. The Gebze Institute of Technology has also come under digital fire.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op zondag 02-06-2013 om 21:05:48 "An itibari ile.. DOWN:DOWN http://t.co/iiHDx1G2WmDOWN http://t.co/IvOptO0pLXDOWN http://t.co/tPlEIbvL74 " via @boxerescape reageer retweet

Following the rumors that the government limited access to the Internet Anonymous has started tweeting passwords to free access to a VPN – virtual private network that connects computers and devices in one network, allowing information to be shared.

The hacktivist group also claimed that pro-government hackers are attacking Turkish news websites.

Decrying the reaction of Turkish authorities to the ongoing protests as those of a “petty dictator,” Anonymous vows to kick off a worldwide action which will “bring the Turkish government to its knees.”

With #opTurkey, the hacktivist collective plans to “attack every Internet and communications asset of the Turkish government.”

Anonymous - #opTurkey

“You have censored social media and other communications of your people in order to suppress the knowledge of your crimes against them," the collective alleges. "Now Anonymous will shut you down and your own people will warn you from power.”

Although rumors that the Turkish authorities have been blocking Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets throughout the country since Saturday remain unconfirmed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made no effort to hide his disaffection for the communication medium.

Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the role of social media in helping organize and co-ordinate rallies, after the wave of large-scale protests that gripped the country.

"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said in an interview for Haberturk Sunday evening. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."

Turkey has been gripped with mass demonstrations for the past three days. The ongoing rallies started with protests on Friday against the refurbishment of Istanbul’s Taksim Square, where the authorities plan to build a shopping center in place of a park. However, the protests unfolded into anti-government demonstrations with thousands gathering all over the country. Riot police used ‘excessive force,’ officials admitted, to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water cannon. There have been about 1700 people reportedly arrested. Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stressed he “will not seek permission from marauders” to implement his building plans. He is also reported to have called the social network Twitter ‘a trouble maker’, according to local media, blaming it for misinforming people.

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Saudi Arabia Bans Anonymous Symbol

The Guy Fawkes masks associated with online hacking group Anonymous have been prohibited in Saudi Arabia according to a report by official news agency, SPA. On Thursday, May 30, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Naif ordered confiscation of the masks and a ban on their further importation.

The news agency reports that the Saudi interior ministry has ordered all police stations to conduct a massive operation in order to find, confiscate, and destroy any Guy Fawkes masks existing in the country.

The Saudi authorities stated that these masks promote “a culture of violence and extremism” and “encourages young people to breach security and spread chaos in society.”

The response on social networks to the ban was immediate, with thousands of internet users around the world declaring the measure a direct attack on human rights. Saudi authorities have refused to comment when asked for a statement.

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy whose leaders and people live in abundance due to is lucrative oil exports, is one of the few Arab nations free of sanctions for human rights violations due to its proximity with United States policy.

The Anonymous Mask features Guy Fawkes, an English revolutionary from the 17th century who was a key player in the Gunpowder Plot, a plan to blow up the British Parliament and install a Catholic monarchy. The mask was popularized by the recent movie, “V for Vendetta.”

The mask was then adopted by the international hacker group, Anonymous, which was founded in 2003 to carry out internet activism. The group conceives of itself a decentralized group of internet users functioning as a global brain. Anonymous largely consists of various image boards and internet forums. Lacking a defined leader, they use these means to coordinate protests.

Arab governments consider the masks even more of a threat as they have come to represent a universal symbol of protest, and of hope and justice, including during the Arab Spring demonstrations.

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LOCAL - First official death recorded in Gezi Park protests: Turkish Doctors Union

A Socialist Solidarity Platform (SODAP) member has been hit and killed after a car driver ignored warnings to stop for protesters organizing a Gezi Park solidarity demonstration in Ümraniye’s 1 Mayıs neighborhood, the Turkish Doctors’ Union (TTB) said today.

The victim, 20-year-old Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, is the first confirmed death in protests that have engulfed the entire country.

A statement released by TTB accused the government of conducting a provocative agenda, citing several remarks of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan which claimed he was “barely holding back the 50 percent” of the country that voted for him from coming onto the street.

A car drove into the crowds, despite warnings, according to the statement, and subsequently caused Ayvalıtaş’s death.

The hacker group RedHack also released a statement, saying Ayvalıtaş was a member, while implying that the killing was the intentional work of a fascist.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) Sabahat Akkiraz extended her condolences on the Ayvalıtaş while describing him as a “martyr.”

The TTB called on government to pull back all police forces, and release all those detained throughout the protests.

Over 1,480 people have so far been wounded in Istanbul, with five people in intensive care and two more in critical condition, the TTB said, adding that around 414 injuries have so far been recorded by Ankara’s Doctors’ Union, with 420 more in İzmir.

Bron: www.hurriyetdailynews.com

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Turkish protesters using encryption software to evade censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Facebook and Twitter reported to have been blocked in run-up to protests, with people turning to VPNs to broadcast content

Mobile internet users in Turkey are routing around suspected censorship by its government by downloading software that encrypts and hides their connections to the outside world, as the unrest in the country grows.

People there are also downloading communications apps such as Twitter and Ustream, which can broadcast live video, and Zello, which works like a walkie-talkie, so they can record events and avoid surveillance, as protests and disorder entered their sixth day.

Over the weekend, more than 120,000 people inside Turkey have downloaded Hotspot Shield, a free mobile app that provides a "virtual private network" (VPN) connection that cannot be tapped and can link to the outside world, avoiding censorship. Anchorfree, which makes the software, said its product – already popular inside the country as a means of evading government internet censorship – had leapt more than three thousandfold over the weekend.

The country, which has about 73 million inhabitants, of whom about half have internet connections, usually sees about 10,000 new users of VPN software each day, said Anchorfree, but that figure jumped tenfold on Saturday alone.

"The really interesting thing here," said David Gorodyansky, founder and chief executive of AnchorFree,, "is that tens of thousands of people are downloading Hotspot Shield and other communications apps in anticipation of further censorship. It just goes to show how evolving internet and mobile app technology is helping to thwart attempts to limit democratic rights and freedoms."

The Turkish government has been repeatedly criticised by pressure groups inside the country who say it has been blocking or censoring Twitter and Facebook content for months leading up to the latest protests, in which one man has died.

Over the weekend, access to social media sites was throttled, according to a report on Techcrunch quoting sources inside the country. But Turkcell, the largest of the three mobile phone companies there, which covers almost the whole country and has about 60% of users, denied reports that it was blocking connections.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan recently called Twitter "a menace", adding "the best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."

Kurdish groups inside and outside Turkey have previously complained to the Guardian that tweets using their hashtag #twitterkurds have been censored so that protests inside the country alleging mistreatment do not appear in Twitter's timeline or searches. Twitter has not been able to confirm this.

The Turkish government has implemented a centralised system where all internet traffic travels over Turk Telecom's systems, which means content can be blocked or websites effectively removed from sight. Thousands of sites are reported to be invisible inside the country, while being available outside. There is also a government body which can ban internet content without a warrant or judicial oversight.

However Renesys, an internet conectivity monitoring company, said there was no evidence that Turkey's connectivity to the outside world is being blocked, as has happened in Syria and Egypt more recently.

"We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual. We examined the 72-hour history of measurements from inside Turkey to these sites, and found no change in normal behaviour," noted chief technology officer Jim Cowie. But he added that it was impossible to know whether there might be local throttling of connections.

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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LOCAL - Anonymous hacks Turkish PM website: claim

The global hacking collective Anonymous hacked the Turkish Prime Ministry's webpage today, according to claims on ehackingnews.

The website "www.basbakanlik.gov.tr" cannot currently be opened.

Anonymous launched the operation #OpTurkey on June 2, conducting a series of attacks in response to the government’s heavy-handed response to the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and around the country.

The group managed to take down access to the Official Gazette and other sites with a hacking attempt late on June 2. The website of private channel NTV, which has come in for stiff criticism for failing to adequately cover the events, was also subjected to an Anonymous attack early June 3.

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Hackers breken in bij e-mail Erdogan



Hackers die zich Anonymous Turkey noemen, hebben woensdag gezegd dat ze vertrouwelijke informatie hebben bemachtigd van e-mailaccounts van naaste medewerkers van premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. De informatie heeft betrekking op de protesten en onlusten die afgelopen dinsdag begonnen en in het weekeinde een climax bereikten.

In de burelen van de Turkse premier is bevestigd dat e-mailaccounts zijn aangevallen, maar de doelwitten zijn afgesloten van het netwerk rond de premier.
Bron: Telegraaf

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Project #KnightSec

KnightSec started as a group of hacktivists within the collective known as "Anonymous" whom, against some, "White-Knighted" under the flag of "Anonymous". They stuck up for victims of rape, abuse, bullying, and more in the face of adversity. Some were hunted down and outed publicly, others raided by the Federal Government.

This site was founded to tell their story, and to launch "Project #KnightSec", which on twitter from this day forth shall be hashtagged #ProjectKnightSec. #ProjectKnightSec aims to do 2 things, promote activism in the youth and old of the world, and to immediately change the world around every one of us for the better.

You do not have to be technical, you do not have to be "Anonymous", you just have to have the initiative, the drive to volunteer, to change the world. Plant a tree, Raise a forest. Speak out publicly against bullies both in school and workplaces. Volunteer to clean up disasters, Volunteer at a local soup kitchen, whatever it is you do, commit one good deed a day, or hundreds if you wish, and simply ask those whom you help to "pay it forward."

Together we can change the world, Together we can change the quality of life for future generations to come. Check this page frequently for updates, photos, and more.

Go out now, and promote the idea that is #ProjectKnightSec

-KYAnonymous

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Project #KnightSec

I prefer to keep my facebook personal, add the KYAnonymous one OFFICIAL KYANONYMOUS FACEBOOK CLICK HERE

06/06/2014

Greetings Citizens of the World, I am Deric Lostutter, and this is my story.

Approximately Mid-April 2012 a search warrant was carried out on my address in Winchester, Kentucky for alleged communications with one "Noah Mchugh" aka @justbatcat regarding the hacking of http://www.rollredroll.com and my alleged involvement in said hacking. Upon returning from a brief turkey hunt behind my farm I had just sat down and opened up my computer to work when my pitbull, named Thor, jumps up on the door as is common for him to do when someone new is at my house. I had been expecting a T-Shirt in the mail from ShieldTactical.com and what appeared to be a Fed-Ex truck was parked in my driveway. As I open the door to great the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to "Get The Fuck Down" with m-16 assault rifles and full riot gear armed safety off, pointed directly at my head. I was handcuffed and detained outside while they cleared my house. My brother soon emerged later with his new girlfriend, both bewildered that the F.B.I. was at my house seeing as I have no prior criminal history, both of them in handcuffs as well. The Swat team left my belongings in the floor, my dogs shocked, my family nervous, my garage door battered open with a ram though I stated I had a key, and the RV camper window broken for entry though I stated to pull hard on the door.

Looking around I seen the Swat Team of course, a few fbi detectives from Columbus Ohio, Lexington KY, and Louisville KY. Also with them were a state trooper or 2, a local sheriff, and shortly thereafter the buildings were cleared the CIS labcoat wearing "Geek Squad" so to speak who analyzes your "evidence".

I was detained on the back patio, I asked if I was going to jail, they said no, they said who are you, I responded KYAnonymous. They asked me a few questions, asked me for my passwords for my account, stated that I could not tell anyone I was raided or I would face additional charges such as "destroying/tampering with evidence". They pulled out ALLEGED emails between me and @justbatcat aka Noah McHugh from Noah's inbox indicating that someone is trying to "sell me down the river". They stated they had been watching me for a long time, prior to Jim Parks, and that I was a good guy, and even joked around a bit about the good things I have done, none the less, sincere or not, They are the FBI and to them I am Anonymous, the embodiment of a dangerous threat according to their m16 assault rifles aimed at me for a computer.

Before they departed, I asked them for names and badge numbers of each involved. I got none of them as I requested and subsequently it took me the better part of a month just to get a phone call returned for the status of my belongings let alone tracking down my case agent to columbus ohio. I asked Agent Bixby (who in all fairness seems to be fighting for me and believes I am a good guy) the status of my belongings and they had no time table, as of this post they are still with the FBI being analyzed. I was emailed their intent to send out a "Target Letter" which means they are going to try to indict me for a Federal Offense, (most likely a felony and two misdemeanors) to a secret Grand Jury of 23 individuals, for which I can not be present to state my side, nor state my innocence. Let us not forget that Batcat did the hack, as stated in the Herald ARTICLE HERE which by all accounts is a clear admission of guilt. So I am curious to see the charges, as is the lawyer I have teamed up with, Jason Flores-Williams of the WhistleBlower Defense League.

WBDL is a group of very serious attorneys who come to their clients aid mostly "pro-bono" and look to defer defense costs through "Grass Roots" fundraising. Hence the need for a store on this site, and the wepay campaign which will be on this site later today. The group was founded in most part by famed attorney of Commander-X , Jay Leiderman.

This is my call to you, in the media, in the world of anonymous, who look to change the world to a free, transparent one, to my friends and family as well, to come to my aid, if you can find it in your heart, share my story, donate, buy a sticker, rally in the streets to demand the investigation against me be dismissed. I stood up for a rape victim, I shared information that was public, I had an opinion, and now I am needing you to stand up for me.

-KyAnonymous
**SIDE NOTE*** I would like to also extend my personal apologies to Jim Parks, The FBI Stated that the girls Noah allegedly found in his email are all over 18, On behalf of anonymous I am sorry for the embarrassment that caused you, I am also glad we were wrong about the age.

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BiellaColeman twitterde op donderdag 06-06-2013 om 22:57:00 Anonymous is forced to unmask when FBI knocks. Anon behind stubenville @shadowrapz raided: http://t.co/TMKfa3LaiV reageer retweet

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Anonymous releases private NSA documents regarding spying - Pastebin.com



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Greetings Netizens, and Citizens of the world.

Anonymous has obtained some documents that "they" do not want you to see, and much to "their" chagrin, we have found them, and are giving them to you.
These documents prove that the NSA is spying on you, and not just Americans. They are spying on the citizens of over 35 different countries.
These documents contain information on the companies involved in GiG, and Prism.
Whats GiG you might ask? well...

The GIG will enable the secure, agile, robust, dependable, interoperable data sharing environment for the Department where warfighter, business, and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network that facilitates information superiority, accelerates decision-making, effective operations, and Net-Centric transformation.

Like we said, this is happening in over 35 countries, and done in cooperation with private businesses, and intelligence partners world wide.
We bring this to you, So that you know just how little rights you have. Your privacy and freedoms are slowly being taken from you, in closed door meetings, in laws buried in
bills, and by people who are supposed to be protecting you.

Download these documents, share them, mirror them, don't allow them to make them disappear. Spread them wide and far. Let these people know, that we will not be silenced, that we will not be taken advantage of, and that we are not happy about this unwarranted, unnecessary, unethical spying of our private lives, for the monetary gain of the 1%.

And now, the candy: http://thedocs.hostzi.com/

Mirrors:
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We are Anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
and by now,
You should expect us

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Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents

In the wake of last night’s revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.

The documents — 13 in total — were posted online, along with an accompanying message full of the normal Anonymous bluster: people won’t be silenced, they have the memory of trivia-master elephants, the governments of the world will fall, your average press release really.

The documents seem to mostly relate to PRISM and supporting operations, and mostly date from around 2008, supposedly not long after PRISM first reared its ugly head. One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world. Although we’re still in the process of combing through the documents, you can bet your last Bitcoin that ‘intelligence’ has been shared with British security services.

Hit up the documents for further details; just be warned that although this might look like the plot of a B-list movie starring Aston Kutcher, the docs themselves are incredibly dry and full of more acronyms whatever presentation you should be working on. [Pastebin]

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#OpTurkey: Anonymous Hacks Fox Entertainment Turkey & Vodasoft, Leaks account details online – HackRead – Latest Cyber Crime – Information Security – Hacking News



Just an hour ago a well known Anonymous hacker going with the handle of @AnonsTurkey on Twitter has hacked into the official websites of Fox Entertainment Turkey (fox.com.tr) and a Turkish based call center VodaSoft (vodasoft.com.tr).

@AnonsTurkey who is very active these days for #OpTurkey, managed to breach the servers of both websites, ending up with leaking confidential information such as thousands of login accounts and database online with a message.

After analyzing the leaked data of Fox Entertainment Turkey, I have found out login details of around thousands of users which includes usernames, date of births, emails (@fox.com.tr & others) and their encrypted passwords.

While the leaked Vodasoft data includes site’s database, around 1600 usernames, company names, job title, emails, encrypted and plain-text passwords of site users and staff.

The hacker has pasted the data on a clipboard site, which can be found by clicking Fox Entertainment Turkey and [b]Vodasoft[/b].

@AnonsTurkey is the same Anonymous hacker who had hacked the official website of Turkish PM.

#OpTurkey is an online operation initiated by Anonymous as a result of protests that have been held in Turkey since 28 May 2013. The initial Istanbul protests were led by about 50 environmentalists against replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim Military Barracks (demolished in 1940), with the possibility of housing a shopping mall. The protests developed into riots when a group occupying the park was attacked, with tear gas and water cannons, by police.

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Operation Troll The NSA

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Let's jam up the NSA's scanners

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‘Anonymous Belgium-hackers’ zijn juristen van Mylex

Er was de voorbije weken veel te doen rond internetvrijheid, en censuur op het Belgische web. Na het omstreden voorstel van Peter Dedecker, lanceerde ‘Anonymous Belgium’ in mei de boodschap dat zij het Belgische web zou bevrijden. Hoe dit precies in zijn werk zou gaan, werd in de boodschap niet vermeld. Nu blijkt dat juristenkantoor Mylex achter de actie zat.


Mylex geïnspireerd door Nadim Kobeissi

Het juristenkantoor haalde haar inspiratie uit de presentatie van Nadim Kobeissi op het door Bloovi georganiseerde event Phare Conference te Gent. Nadim Kobeissi vertelde tijdens zijn presentatie op Phare over het feit dat het internet in België door de overheid gecensureerd wordt. De meesten van de aanwezigen waren verrast door dit nieuws. Dat zette juristenkantoor Mylex aan om een actie te bedenken die meer burgers hiervan zou bewust maken.

Mylex nam identiteit van Anonymous Belgium aan

Om genoeg aandacht te kunnen vestigen op het feit dat de Belgische overheid internetcensuur toepast heeft het juristenkantoor de identiteit van Anonymous Belgium aan. "Wanneer we hadden gewerkt met onze eigen kantoornaam, was de impact, en het maatschappelijk debat, nooit hetzelfde geweest," schrijft het kantoor in een persbericht.

"We vrezen niet voor represailles door Anonymous. Zij staan immers voor hetzelfde principe: vrijheid voor het internet," klinkt het.

Persbericht

Midden mei lanceerde 'Anonymous Belgium' de boodschap dat deze organisatie het Belgische web zou bevrijden. Op de website censorthis.be stond als lanceerdatum 15 juni en de vraag zich in te schrijven voor meer nieuws. Verschillende redacties kregen vandaag een persbericht binnen, begeleid met een filmpje persmap & een ludieke bivakmuts. Het persbericht verklapt dat Mylex achter Anonymous Belgium zit en toont via een filmpje waarom het juristenkantoor deze actie ondernam. Kijk even mee:

Censor This: Unveiled.

Waarom deze actie?

"We geloven in de basisprincipes van het world wide web. We geloven dat internettoegang ten allen tijde vrij moet zijn, en dat dit ook juridisch gewaarborgd moet blijven. Vandaag blokkeert de Belgische overheid maar liefst meer dan 80 websites. Dit gaat in tegen het principe van openbaarheid van bestuur en is niet in overeenstemming met het Wetboek van Strafvordering. Bovendien is er ook geen transparantie over welke websites het gaat," zegt Mylex.

"Vaak worden websites geblokkeerd waar illegale medicatie, gokproducten, en andere worden verkocht. Dit is echter weinig meer dan een drogargument. Censuur is slechts een masker voor de goede huisvader & pakt de bron van het probleem niet aan."

"Hoe verschilt onze democratie nog van dictatuurstaten?"

‘Hoe verschilt onze democratie dan nog van censuurstaten?’, vragen de juristen van Mylex, alias Anonymous Belgium. "Kan iedereen, ook maar een beetje gekrenkt door de inhoud beschikbaar van het net, straks vragen om een blokkering van die website? En hoe zal onze democratie dan nog verschillen van meer extreme censuurstaten zoals China, Iran of Noord-Korea?".

Meer uitleg over hun ideologische strijd geven de juristen op de website http://unveiled.censorthis.be. Je krijgt er ook de kans om de actie te steunen door een anonymous-foto (met blaclava of ander hoofddeksel) van jezelf te posten op twitter met de hashtag #liberatebelgium


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Anonymous hacks TV watchdog for fining live streaming of Gezi protests, 13 June 2013

The global hacking collective Anonymous has hacked the website of the Turkish TV watchdog, after it fined today the broadcasters that showed live streaming of the Gezi Park protests.

Anonymous announced the operation targeting the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), dubbed “Tango Down RTÜK,” via the Twitter account of the collective’s Turkish members. “You have fined the media organizations that told the truth. Now Anonymous is punishing you,” the group said in its message. “You will not expel the one who speaks truth from nine villages,” it added, referring to a Turkish proverb meaning that those who tell the truth are never well received.

Private TV networks that live broadcasted the clashes between police and demonstrators such as Halk TV, Ulusal TV, CEM TV and EM TV were fined for “harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people” by airing the live footage. Halk TV had in particular gained sudden popularity for its 24-hour streaming when mainstream media outlets gave little coverage of the protests.

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Anonymous trolls NSA with ‘keywords of terror,’ disables website - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Anonymous disables the National Security Agency’s website and trolls their “impressive surveillance apparatus” with “keywords of terror” as part of Operation Troll the NSA (#OpTrollTheNSA).

Hacktivists associated with the international internet collective Anonymous initiated Operation Troll the USA on June 12, in response to bombshell revelations made by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former federal government contract worker who revealed details of a vast secret surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Softpedia reports hackers from WikiCrew disrupted the official NSA website, nsa.gov, via a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on June 12. At time of publication the site had been inaccessible for over 13 hours. Softpedia also reports “hackers of the St0rmyw0rm group have leaked a file which they claim contains the email addresses of over 400 individuals that work for the NSA.”

In addition to temporarily disabling the official NSA website, and leaking NSA employee email addresses, hacktivists associated with Anonymous actually trolled the NSA by sending out a large number of messages, emails and tweets containing terror-related words. The following is an excerpt from the trollthensa.com website:

. If millions of us, all at the same exact time, call or email someone with our keywords-of-terror-filled script, we can give our nation’s impressive surveillance apparatus the kind of test it deserves. They say they don’t read or listen to the contents of our messages. Why not test it out? It’ll be fun.

Last week Anonymous hacktivists released a collection of documents detailing the U.S. government’s covert intelligence-sharing network, as well as exposing key elements of a secret data-mining program currently being operated by the National Security Agency, and in so doing illuminating some of the “Net Centric Operations” being conducted by the Department of Defense. In particular, the documents offer a detailed look at the DoD’s “Global Information Grid” (GIG), a top-secret intelligence-sharing network.

Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.

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BiellaColeman twitterde op maandag 17-06-2013 om 19:05:16 Wow, Brazil's largest magazine (their twitter account has over 2 million followers) hacked by guess who? https://t.co/7QOjTSFZJ2 reageer retweet

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VEJA twitterde op maandag 17-06-2013 om 18:31:36 We are #Anonymous #Brasil reageer retweet

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Anonymous Hacks Brazil’s Largest Magazine VEJA’s Twitter account, invites people to Protest against Government

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The online hackavist group Anonymous Brazil has hacked the official Twitter account of one of Brazil’s largest magazine @VEJA, asking the Brazilians to join them in protests against the increase of Bus fare.

Anonymous Brazil posted an image on hacked Twitter account with a message saying:

. Its not about cents, its about our rights!

The account was hacked few minutes ago and I am breaking the news for you where the verified Twitter account is posting Tweets in Portuguese language against the Brazilian government and encouraging youth to come out and protest.

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#OpPetrol Damage List- Updating as the hack happens - Hackers News Bulletin



#OpPetrol

Today is 20th June 2013, this is the day for which Anonghost said to be more powerful for 12 Countries under #OpPetrol and they have already hacked a long list of websites which we are collecting from 12 may 2013.

Today they also attacked many of the websites, leaked documents, hacked accounts, below is the list of the Damage under #OpPetrol on 20th June 2013 and the list will be updated when the any hack happens related to #OpPetrol.

If you want to catch out the Past Damage of #OpPetrol (HERE) in which they hacked:

139. http://www.francescopassaniti.fr/site/Op.html
140. http://golfarcachon.org/fr/Op.html
141. http://www.sainville.fr/dvpt/
142. http://www.cani-cross.be/nouveau/Op.php

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Jake Davis: Freed hacker faces strict tech rules

A convicted hacker who was detained in a young offender institution has been released - but will now face strict limitations on his technology use.

Jake Davis, 20, was convicted of computer hacking for his role in the notorious group LulzSec.

He cannot contact anyone who associates themselves with the wider Anonymous hacktivist collective.

He told the BBC he planned to release a prison diary and to write a film about the internet.

Davis returned to Twitter on 22 June after finishing his 37-day term at Feltham young offender institution.

During that time he penned what he described as a "nerdy" diary, written using pen and paper, which he hopes to publish online once it has been subjected to legal checks.

He is forbidden from creating encrypted files, securely wiping any data or deleting his internet history.

In June 2012 he pleaded guilty to being part of LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous famed for attacking several high profile sites including Sony Pictures and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Shortly after being released, he tweeted: "654 days on curfew and 37 days in Feltham. Up next: Another 365 days on licence (parole) and 1,825 days of intense monitoring. Free though!"

He had been sentenced to 24 months - but he had been wearing an electronic tag for 21 months which counted against his term.
Licking elbows

Davis is now based in Islington, north London, where he said he was working on a number of projects.

He said he had begun an unspecified project with contemporary art firm Artangel - the company told the BBC it had had "several exploratory chats with Jake over the past six months", but would not go into further detail.

Longer term, he told the BBC he would write a fictional film about the internet, working with production company Fly Film, who could not be reached for comment on Monday.

Publically on Twitter, he has been sharing anecdotes about his time inside.

In one post, he wrote: "I was sacked as a prison cleaner for mopping too near a computer. Those deadly, soapy mops are a serious threat to GCHQ, make no mistake!"

As alter ego Topiary, Davis's last tweet before his arrest in July 2011 read: "You cannot arrest an idea."

On Sunday, in a nod to that sign off, Davis joked: "You can arrest an idea, you can imprison an idea, you can warp an idea, you can break an idea, but you still can't lick your own elbow."

While he wishes to distance himself from the hacking world, he has pledged support to Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who leaked secret documents regarding the monitoring of internet users.

At the time of Davis's sentencing, prosecutors said the actions of the LulzSec group had been "cowardly and vindictive".

"The harm they caused was foreseeable, extensive and intended," said Andrew Hadik, a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service. "Indeed, they boasted of how clever they were with a complete disregard for the impact their actions had on real people's lives."

He added: "This case should serve as a warning to other cybercriminals that they are not invincible."

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Anonymous North Korea

Anonymous North Korea

Greetings to our fellow Citizens of World.
To the tyrants of the North Korean Government... a notice.

We Are Anonymous. Previously we said we would penetrate the intranet and private networks of north korea. And we were successful.

. We are not a threat to the world peace like your government.
. We do not forcing ourselves like your government.
. We will no longer abide by your ways of ruling,
. We work toward world peace and for the Republic of Korea.

Thus, we have a Memorandum of June 25 to indicating our strength. Oh good people of North Korea, it is time to wake up. Soon you will experience a new culture, and your worthless leadership Will be recognised by everyone. Come and join us!

To the worthless tyrant kim jong Un and your puppet government body!
The only power you have are missiles and nuclear. We are more powerful than that. You cannot destroy ideas with missiles. You end talks by placing the blame on the Republic of Korea. And the price of your error will be costly and placed upon you. Your major missile documentation and residents, military documents show down is already in progress. Your attempt to cover this has been uncovered.

. We are partially sharing this information with the world.
. Expect us! and Wait for us!
. Anonymous are ready for this day!
. Kim Jong-un, now it is time for you to step down.

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soit_goes twitterde op zondag 30-06-2013 om 22:24:05 Folks are loving the #anonymous crew at the #Chicago Gay #Pride parade http://t.co/t5lRaFnsLm reageer retweet

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Anonymous Hackers Leak Customer Database of Relead

Hackers of the Anonymous movement have set their sights on Relead, a company that helps its customers identify anonymous web visitors and convert the information into sales leads.

Since Relead hasn’t been too keen on revealing who its customers are, the hacktivists have decided to find out for themselves. They’ve leaked the company’s entire customer database online.

“You see, if you are an enemy of anonymity, you are an enemy of Anonymous, and we love to know who our enemies are,” the hackers said in a statement published next to the leaked data.

“Who is paying Relead to help them snoop on their unsuspecting website visitors? Who is willing to provide cash to a company that is essentially taking the NSA surveillance program as a business model?” they added.

The hackers have told SecurityWeek that it hasn’t been too difficult to gain access to the company’s customer database.

Forbes has contacted some of the individuals and companies whose names appeared on the list leaked by Anonymous.

Some of them have argued that such practices are becoming commonplace, while others believe that if they don’t use such tools, their competitors might do it.

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen is also on the list of Relead’s customers. He says he had signed up for their free evaluation to see what type of information the service could provide.

“I was worried about Relead so I signed up for their free eval to see how much it would see. It saw almost nothing,” Hypponen said on Twitter.

He’s not the only one who found that the service couldn’t pinpoint individual visitors.

The CTO of IT security firm Rewterz.com, Muhammad Omar Khan, also said that Relead didn’t generate any useful results.

Relead representatives have not made any comments regarding the incident.

Bron: news.softpedia.com

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Anonymous Goes After America’s Biggest Private Prison Company - Business Insider



Companies like CCA currently profit from America's addiction to incarceration – converting a bloody trail of prison riots, deaths, and general human misery into black balance sheets. The conventional financial wisdom is that CCA will be reliably profitable in the future because of its strong history of growth over the past thirty years. But this growth has been fueled by a historical anomaly. Between 1970 and 2005, the U.S. prison population grew by 700 percent, far outpacing both population growth and crime. As a result, our country now has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners.

CCA did not exist before this massive expansion of incarceration – and the company depends on it to survive. But Anonymous' report shows us that as America weans itself from that addiction, CCA's ledgers will quickly turn red.

This is not Anonymous' first foray into corporate issues. Since 2011, it has published four reports digging into the financials and governance of publicly traded Chinese companies. Each report has seriously rattled the target company; in one case, the Financial Times reported that the company responded by suspending trading of its shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Today's report on CCA marks the first time, however, that Anonymous has trained its sights on a U.S. company. They have certainly found a deserving target.

Anonymous points outs that state governments are increasingly enacting policy reforms designed to reduce their reliance on incarceration – including top CCA "customers" like California and Colorado. Based on a state-by-state examination of these reforms, combined with a close look at CCA's falling occupancy rates and decreased spending on new construction, Anonymous identifies ongoing criminal justice reforms as posing a far more serious risk to CCA's business model than CCA's management is willing to admit. It concludes that CCA's management "has been caught up in its own hype" and that "winter is coming" for the company.

Recent events lend support to Anonymous' conclusions. In just the last few months, four state governments have announced the cancellation of five prison contracts with CCA: Idaho, Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi. While the Idaho and Mississippi cancellations seem to have arisen from dissatisfaction with CCA's performance (the Mississippi prison was rocked by two riots in just twelve months, and CCA employees at the Idaho prison recently falsified nearly 4,800 hours of staffing records), the Texas and Kentucky cancellations were driven by falling state prison populations that rendered the CCA contracts unnecessary.

Of course, continuing this momentum requires the political will to further reduce the flow of people into prisons. The ACLU is working on a number of fronts to make this happen, and an increasing number of state legislators are realizing that current incarceration rates are unsustainable. And we will continue to emphasize that handing control of prisons over to for-profit prisons are a bad public investment: one that fails to offer a real solution to state or local fiscal problems, lets those companies engage in sharp tactics to garner more government contracts and avoid public accountability, and has resulted in a truly horrifying track record of abuse, neglect, and misconduct.

They're digging in now.

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RT's Ruptly team detained filming Anonymous 'United Stasi of America' action — RT News

United Stasi of America Extended Version Lightart Protest projection embassy in Berlin Anonymous

Staff of RT’s video agency Ruptly were detained for several hours by Berlin police while filming the Anonymous 'United Stasi of America' action. Despite the crew having official permission to work in the area, police attempted to confiscate the footage.

The reporters were searched and detained for two hours. Police released the Ruptly team without charges as they found no grounds to seize the memory card with the video.

On July 14, Anonymous activists protested government surveillance programs by beaming giant words reading 'United Stasi of America' across the US embassy wall near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin.

The projected note – up to three meters high – made reference to the former East German secret police, the Stasi.

The projection came from the car parked across the embassy and only lasted for two minutes. After that, three Anonymous activists packed up and left the scene.

However, a handful of police proceeded to detain the journalists filming on location.

“The police considered them first as suspects and then as Anonymous conspirators,” Ruptly said.

"Staffers of Ruptly video agency were shooting Anonymous actions and they had all the necessary work permits and accreditation. In this case, any fact of confiscation is illegal, so the Berlin police failed to remove our stuff," said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief.



In June, German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the US combs through half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages each month, and has classified Germany on the same target level as China.

Back then Markus Ferber, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party and member of the European Parliament, accused Washington of using "American-style Stasi methods," thus comparing them to the communist East Germany’s much-dreaded Ministry for State Security (Stasi).

The Stasi secret police employed a network of informants that served as watchdogs against any forms of government dissent. Spies reported the actions of friends and relatives, drilled holes into apartments and hotel rooms to film citizens with hidden cameras, and infiltrated schools and universities. In some cases, spouses and family members spied on each other.

they picked most prominent place in Berlin for embassy as if democratically inviting open protests

their locations in Berlin and Amsterdam on biggest squares where often gatherings,protests, festivals

RT reported on Germany's lack of sovereignity after WW2 in the past, they should do it again.


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Anonymous claims hack of US's Fema in retaliation for 'implied threats' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Hacking collective posts contact information for agency employees but unconfirmed if servers have been compromised

The Anonymous hacking collective claims it has compromised US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) servers and has posted the contact information of people connected to the agency online.

Anonymous said it released the information because recent events, including the NSA surveillance revelations, have brought "oblique and cowardly implied threats against Anonymous very much back into the forefront of the hive's consciousness".

The release includes the names, mailing addresses and email addresses of contractors, subcontractors and government employees linked to Fema, including private defense contractors, federal agents and local authorities.
Much of the information was already accessible online to someone determined to find it, though Anonymous said it redacted social security numbers and login information because its "intent is not to harm, merely to issue a firm warning".

However, the mailing addresses connected to some of the people listed on the release are not publicly affiliated with their employers and Anonymous referred to them as home addresses in an email. It did respond to a question asking why this does not fall under the banner of harmful information.

Anonymous said it targeted Fema because of a training exercise the agency used in 2012 to prepare employees for a cyberattack. In the scenario, a fictional group called "The Void" launches a cyberattack on US businesses and infrastructure.

Anonymous sees The Void as a stand-in for their organization and feels that the training exercise made some unfair implications about the collective. It said actions taken by The Void "implicitly link financial gain and fraud to activist hackers". Anonymous was also upset because it believes the exercise implies the collective is anti-American.

Fema did not respond to requests for confirmation on whether its servers were compromised.

The Fema exercise occurred in 2012, but Anonymous said in a statement that it believes the exercise was used "as part of the ongoing justifications for Prism and the other NSA spy programs". With these recent developments, Anonymous said it wanted to show it "does not wave the white flag".

We are not fighting any one government or corporation, we are fighting any enemy of freedom of speech and anyone compromising the right to remain anonymous online, without fear of reprisals from governments or corporations with the legal authority or financial resources to destroy the lives of anyone who dares express opinions contrary to their own official line.

Anonymous seemed to imply a threat of its own at the end of the release and said: "Also, please return to us Barrett Brown, we are asking nicely. Pretty please, with sugar on top."

Brown has been imprisoned since September after being accused of 17 offenses springing from his affiliation with Anonymous. Brown is not a hacker but had close ties to the collective and helped publicize some of their most renowned hacks including the Stratfor hack in 2011.

The Fema exercise was co-ordinated by homeland security consulting company Obsidian Analysis, who appointed former Fema chief of staff John McNamara to be company vice-president in May. The National Level Exercise: Cybertop Capabilities Tabletop Exercise, can be downloaded from the Fema site here.

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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Anonymous Plans Global Government Hacking Day For Fifth Of November

http://www.mintpressnews.(...)-of-november/165602/

“This video is an idea — a shared idea — so listen very carefully, and make sure you’re sitting down.”

Anonymous #NOV5TH 2013 - THE LION SLEEPS NO MORE.

The warning was given in activist coalition Anonymous’ most recent video declaration, a call for advocates around the world to rally on Nov. 5 and a warning to government officials that their facilities will be targeted and their secured websites will be hacked.

Anonymous is preparing for a Nov. 5 global day of hacking, global protests and acts of civil disobedience, calling on all people to prepare for what it is considering a day of widespread resilience in the face of global tyranny.

The video, “The Lion Sleeps No More,” warns officials that government buildings around the world will be targeted in acts of civil disobedience by free-thinking members of society who are rallying around the social and ecological issues facing not only the U.S., but every government throughout world.

“Governments of the world, take this message as your will and testament,” the video states. “The game is officially over. Social media has given birth to something new. Now it’s time to set the record straight. This video was intended as that spark that gets delivered straight into the hearts and minds of the world.”

This isn’t the first time Anonymous has capitalized on Nov. 5, a historically symbolic date of resistance based on the 1605 failed attempt to blow up London’s House of Lords. Last year, adorned in masks that depict the common interpretation of Fawkes, Anonymous called for a global day of hacking and resistance. They were successful, but not to the extent they desire for the upcoming day of action.

On Nov. 5, 2012, government and financial websites around the world were hacked, including Australian government sites and Argentina’s government bank. In the U.S., Trapwire, which produces security cameras, was the target of the hacktivist coalition, which chose the company based on its key role in practices that Anonymous claims violate Americans’ right to privacy.

This year, preparing months in advance and utilizing social media to drum up support, Anonymous is calling for an event of epic proportions, one that will serve as a historic day of global solidarity among those who are fighting different, yet similar, battles in their own countries.

“The time for global civil disobedience is now. This time it seems unions around the world are also supporting this action,” the video states. “The lion sleeps no more. Ask yourself this: Where will you be when we make history? Nov. 5, 2013 — worldwide, now it’s a vendetta, now it’s personal. Now it’s time to occupy everywhere. It’s time to throw everything we have at Nov. 5. It’s time to relight the flame of protest until our demands are met.”

Twitter is largely being used as an organizational tool for Nov. 5 preparations. Using the hashtag #NOV5TH, users have already begun to spread the video message and information regarding local protests.

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Why Anonymous hacked the tiny island nation of Nauru

For most people, the hacktivist collective Anonymous’s attack on the website of the island nation of Nauru probably seems pretty random.

But the Republic of Nauru, whose government website and primary ISP, CenpacNet Inc., were brought down over the weekend, is one of the primary processing centers for refugee immigration to Australia, a policy based on the country’s “Pacific Solution.”

This policy holds immigration applicants on islands off Australia instead of on the mainland. This has become a controversial issue in Australia. The asylum seekers and their supporters had earlier protested peacefully for a change in the long holding times for immigrants, but to no avail.

On Friday, a riot broke out in the processing center on Nauru, nearly destroying it and causing an estimated AUS$60 in damages. Nauru’s president called on “strong and able men” to help corral the escaped refugees, raising Anonymous’s ire.

Nauru police have charged 150 of the center’s approximately 550 residents, who have been transferred to jail facilities.

Anonymous’s attack, according to the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland, “resulted in all official emails and government being shut down for over four hours. It was claimed that the Nauruan government had suspended all Internet access outside of official use preceding the Anonymous attack.”

Nauru’s economy was based on phosphate mining. In its wake, the island has experienced environmental degradation and economic turmoil as the phosphate ran out. One of its few hard currency avenues is aid from Australia.

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Anonymous hacks Christian extremists, fights for church state separation - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Fighting for the separation of church and state, Anonymous hacks a Christian extremist website working towards an American theocracy.

According to a report dated July 24, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous hacked and leaked close to 10,000 usernames and passwords from Intercessors For America, a group “of like-minded people who recognized the need for God to intervene in U.S. governmental and cultural issues."

Cyber War News reports the hack and leak as “a raw sql extraction which contains user accounts and administrator accounts as well as server accounts. Account details are mostly email addresses and clear text passwords with the administrator and server passwords being encrypted. All together there is 9,885 non duplicated email:password combos found.”

Speculating on the motivation of the Anonymous hacktivists, Eduard Kovacs at Softpedia writes: “As far as their motivation is concerned, it appears the attackers don’t like that the religious organization is interfering with the government.”

The Anonymous hacktivists responsible for posting the document containing the leaked material left a brief, terse statement, noting that “This leak is in the true spirit of Anonymous. Any individual trying to claim responsibility for it is not the hacker who did it.” And, perhaps more importantly, “Never should religion interfere with government.”

What do you think about Anonymous hacktivists targeting Christian extremists? Leave a comment - express yourself.

_{Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.}

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Bron: www.examiner.com

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Nederland bij koplopers in 'censuur' op Google


De Nederlandse platen- en filmmaatschappijen behoren tot de grootste bestrijders van piraterij op internet. Afgelopen maand vroeg de entertainmentbranche Google ruim 175 duizend internetadressen onzichtbaar te maken in zijn zoekmachine.

De verzoeken werden ingediend door Brein, de stichting die overtredingen van het auteursrecht opspoort namens auteurs, uitvoerende kunstenaars, uitgevers, producenten en distributeurs van muziek, film, video, boeken, games en interactieve software.

Brein staat op de dertiende plaats van een lange lijst waarop Google laat zien welke bedrijven en organisaties hebben gevraagd om de verwijdering van links naar illegaal gekopieerde content. Is de klacht gegrond, dan verwijdert het Amerikaanse bedrijf die internetadressen uit de index van zijn zoekmachine.

Fox, Disney, NBC
De grootste 'piraterijbezems' onder de meer dan 3.200 klagers zijn de Britse (BPI) en Amerikaanse (RIAA) koepels van platenlabels, tv- en filmmaatschappijen als Fox, Disney en NBC Universal en softwareproducenten als Microsoft (dat Office uitgeeft) en Adobe (Photoshop). De Britse platenmaatschappijen, verenigd in het BPI, zijn met verwijderingsverzoeken voor ruim 2,7 miljoen links het fanatiekst in de bestrijding van wat zij zien als onlinemuziekdiefstal.

Sinds begin dit jaar hebben rechthebbenden Google verzocht om meer dan 105 miljoen internetadressen te verwijderen, zo heeft de activistische website TorrentFreak uitgerekend. Dat is twee keer zoveel als in heel 2012. Volgens TorrentFreak is dat het bewijs dat de entertainmentbranche de strijd tegen piraterij van films, muziek en software aan het opvoeren is.

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Het Amerikaanse verbond van platenlabels (RIAA) klaagt dat het 'een oceaan aan illegale downloads probeert leeg te scheppen met een emmer. Elke dag komt er weer meer bij en het einde is niet in zicht.' De RIAA heeft er bij Google op aangedrongen volledige internetdomeinen te blokkeren in plaats van dat er duizenden individuele links worden aangemeld. Als er meerdere verzoeken komen voor het verwijderen van links naar hetzelfde liedje op een enkele website, moet dat voldoende zijn voor een volledige ban.

De Zweedse muziekdienst Spotify publiceerde vorige week een studie waaruit zou blijken dat legale alternatieven voor illegale downloads in Nederland de piraterij van muziek hebben teruggedrongen. Op het onderzoek waarmee Spotify schermde, kwam kritiek, omdat het maar één kanaal bekijkt waarlangs internetters illegaal verspreide muziek binnenhengelen. Volgens Spotify is 10 procent van de downloaders verantwoordelijk voor de helft van de liedjes die in Nederland van internet worden geplukt en waarvoor de artiest niet wordt betaald.

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Key slams 'juvenile' hacking by Anonymous

The hacking of more than a dozen National Party websites by opponents of the GCSB spying bill has been branded juvenile by the Prime Minister, whose site was among those disabled.

The sites were targeted by the New Zealand wing of the powerful global hacking group Anonymous overnight. Several of the sites have now been restored, including John Key's.

The hacking followed protests at the weekend when thousands of people turned out to show their opposition to the bill. It gives the Government Communications Security Bureau power to spy on New Zealanders not just foreign targets as at present.

Anonymous uploaded a video on YouTube in which they claimed they hacked the websites because Mr Key refused to listen to protests and uproar over the ''despicable piece of legislation''.

"It's pretty juvenile behaviour in my view," Mr Key said.

"These people are obviously doing something that's both illegal and inappropriate. And they're trying to make their own political point. But their point's wrong."

The websites would remain offline until National patched its web servers or withdrew the bill and apologised to those it had affected, including Kim Dotcom, Anonymous said.

But Dotcom, one of the bill's harshest critics, called for the cyber attacks to stop.

The internet mogul tweeted a warning to the hackers that they were only adding to Mr Key's reasoning to pass the GCSB bill.

"Dear Anonymous NZ, hacking National Party websites is just giving John Key a new excuse to pass the GCSB bill (cybercrime). Please stop it," Dotcom tweeted.

It was disclosures that the GCSB had illegally spied on Dotcom, the founder of online storage company Megaupload, that prompted the bill. Dotcom is fighting attempts by the US government to extradite him on charges of internet piracy, copyright infringement, and money laundering.

'It's not a sophisticated attack'

Finance Minister Bill English, whose website was among those hacked, warns there could be worse to come.

"The fact that they've taken down a ministerial website doesn't matter that much. But if these people decided to take down the IRD website or the Work and Income website that would leave a lot of New Zealanders vulnerable," Mr English said.

His site was among the few restored by this evening.

Anonymous is a loose global network of online hackers. It gained international notoriety for hacking the likes of Mastercard and Sony in the US and last year made Time Magazine's list of the world's most influential people.

An internet security expert, Daniel Ayres, says the National Party sites were easy targets, with only basic security.

"It's not a sophisticated attack. It's roughly the equivalent of someone dumping a tonne of manure on your lawn," Mr Ayres told ONE News.

"It does mean that quite a lot of internet crime has happened behind the scenes because they have to take over a bunch of internet computers."

The bill widening the powers of the GCSB is currently before Parliament and likely to pass with United Future MP agreeing to support it, giving Key the numbers he needs to get it over the line.

To secure the support of Mr Dunne to be able to pass the law, the Government has made some concessions, increasing supervision of the GCSB and making provision for reviews of its operations.

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Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Packed into a small conference room in Portland, Oregon, this rag-tag band of coders has quite the online pedigree, and their mission is far more ambitious than you might expect. They hope to jailbreak the internet.

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Government Wants Media To Stop Covering Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time for sharing a link that contained—within an archive of 5 million emails—credit-card information stolen from a hack of a security company called Stratfor (Jeremy Hammond, the actual hacker, is going to prison for ten years), threatening the family of an FBI officer who raided his mother’s home, and trying to hide his laptops from the Feds.

The flood of NSA leaks from Edward Snowden has placed extra attention on Barrett, who focused on investigating a partnership that many people are incredibly uncomfortable with—the connections between private security, surveillance, intelligence firms, and the US government.

Barrett’s website, ProjectPM, used a small team of researchers to pore over leaked emails, news articles, and public corporate information to figure out what this industry does exactly, and how they serve the White House. It’s partly because of Barrett that we know about things like persona management, a technology used by the US government and its contractors to disseminate information online using fake personas, also known as sock puppets.

He also helped the world learn about TrapWire, a surveillance program that’s built into security cameras all over the world and “more accurate than facial recognition technology.” When it was made public in the pre-Snowden era, most media outlets played it off as not being a big deal. We still don’t know exactly how powerful TrapWire is, but, because of the Strafor hack and Barrett’s research, at least we know it exists.

Anyone interested in getting involved with ProjectPM is invited with this call to action: “If you care that the surveillance state is expanding in capabilities and intent without being effectively opposed by the population of the West, you can assist in making this an actionable resource for journalists, activists, and other interested parties,” which sums up the quest for information that is, in and of itself, on trial in Barrett’s case. As Glenn Greenwald wrote in the Guardian regarding the prosecution of Barrett Brown, “here we have the US government targeting someone they clearly loathe because of the work he is doing against their actions.”

Barrett is set to appear in court next month, but his defense attorneys are asking for an extension to sort through the prosecutors’ evidence. The defense insists they’re in the midst of having a forensics expert process the data. The US government’s evidence is stored on a 2 Terabyte hard drive and two DVDs, and the prosecutors are essentially arguing that a.) All of that does not account for much information, despite the forensic processing that is still ongoing, and b.) the defense has had enough time to get their shit together. But, beyond that, they’re trying to silence the media coverage surrounding Barrett Brown’s case.

Within the government’s “Opposition to Continuance,” written to oppose an extension of Barrett’s trial is a lengthy section about his supposed media strategy. In this section, the government prosecutors have claimed Barrett’s defense team is defying the judge’s warning to not “try the case in the media.” It also states “the government has reason to believe that Brown’s attorney coordinates and/or approves the use of media.”

After that is a list of occasions where Barrett communicated with members of the media, myself included. For what it’s worth, I did not arrange that interview through Barrett’s attorneys, nor did his current attorneys represent him at the time of our conversation. The government is asking for a complete ban on media statements from Barrett and his representatives. It appears to be a desperate strategy to silence criticism and dissent in a case that already deeply threatens the nature of journalism and freedom of information.

Also alluded to in the government’s outline of journalists who have covered Barrett Brown are Glenn Greenwald and the late Michael Hastings, who was a friend of Barrett’s. As Hastings himself said: “Barrett Brown is a journalist, plain and simple. He’s also a colleague and friend, and one of the brilliant, if highly unconventional, American writers of his generation. I offer my support to Barrett and his family, and respectfully ask for his immediate release from custody.”

While the judge waits to decide whether or not Barrett’s trial date should be extended, and if a media gag order should be allowed (his defense rightfully points out this request comes without citing any particularly offensive or justice-obstructing statement Barrett has made thus far), we have decided to publish an original article from Barrett Brown himself, which you can read right over here. It compares the Watergate era to the Wikileaks era, and does not deal with the specifics of Barrett’s trial.

Barrett Brown is an imprisoned author who deserves to be published while he navigates the harsh obstacles of today’s American justice system. The precedent that a guilty verdict—and a 100-year prison sentence—would set is troubling. But, as Barrett told me in March, he’s not “terribly worried” about the punishment he’s facing. While it’s hard to fully believe him, it’s certainly reassuring for someone like me who is in fact quite worried about what prison time, in this case, could mean for the future of investigative reporting, internet security, and journalism at large.

If Barrett goes to prison for digging into the pitch-black world of online surveillance, it will make figuring out what America’s massive intelligence firms are doing with their powerful, secret surveillance tools even more difficult and dangerous than it already is. With Edward Snowden stuck in Russia and Bradley Manning facing well over a century of hard time, the world simply can’t afford to lose Barrett as well.

Bron: www.cyberguerrilla.org

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Anonymous Hacks UK Government Site in Response to Detention of David Miranda

United Kingdom authorities have detained David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner. Greenwald is the journalist responsible for publishing the information obtained by Edward Snowden from the NSA. Anonymous hackers have responded to the incident by hacking a UK government website.

The fact that UK authorities have detained Miranda has been heavily criticized – including by Amnesty International – despite the fact that he was released after nine hours of questioning.

For their part, the hacktivists have defaced the official website of the Mole Valley District Council (molevalley.gov.uk), which they've used to publish a statement.

“We expect there to be many pointed questions asked in the coming days, both domestically and internationally as to how and why an already ridiculously broad and draconian act of law was ripped of its last remaining shred of legitimacy in what cannot be described as anything other than an act of pure spite and intimidation, an act intended to exert a chilling effect on a stream of high-quality journalistic reporting whose historic importance cannot possibly be overstated,” the hackers said.

The statement is accompanied by a table comprised of the personal details of US government employees. The table includes information on their children, parents, spouses and friends.

The hacktivists say that if Miranda can be detained under terrorism legislation just because he’s related to Greenwald, based on the same theory, other possible terrorists might be related to people working in the US government and military.

“We encourage anyone who is interested in preventing terror attacks to fully investigate these spouses and siblings and mothers and fathers and son and daughters, before they too are embroidered in terrible terror plots of the most heinous variety,” Anonymous members said.

Finally, they conclude their statement with a threat. The hackers say they’re preparing something that’s “befitting the gravity of the crimes.”

“Oh, and before we go, we should probably mention that we have been very, very angry over the last few months -- and very, very busy. The only reason you have not heard from us before now is that we have been waiting and watching as the leaks come out and the spooks trip up over own lies and distortions,” the hacktivists noted.

At the time of writing, the Mole Valley Council website still hosts Anonymous’ statement.

Bron: news.softpedia.com

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FBI Agent: We've Dismantled The Leaders Of Anonymous

Gerald.Smith@huffingtonpost.com

Posted: 08/21/2013 11:28 am EDT | Updated: 08/21/2013 1:30 pm EDT

The hacker collective Anonymous has not produced as many high-profile cyber attacks as it once did, a drop-off that can be directly attributed to the arrests of the group's core members, an FBI official told The Huffington Post this week.

Starting in late 2010, Anonymous captured worldwide attention through a series of attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies, stealing data and defacing or crashing websites.

But the arrests last year of five members of Lulz Security, an influential splinter group of hackers, had a "huge deterrent effect" on Anonymous by creating an "added layer of distrust" within the hacking group, according to Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's cyber division in New York.

“All of these guys [arrested] were major players in the Anonymous movement, and a lot of people looked to them just because of what they did,” Berglas said in an interview with HuffPost.

The 2012 arrests relied on the help of a key informant, Hector Monsegur, aka "Sabu," who was caught and then cooperated with the FBI. The fear that one of their own could turn them in has sowed distrust within the hacking collective, according to Berglas.

"The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches," he said. "It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players."

Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who studies Anonymous, said there was "no doubt" the arrests dealt a major blow to "a central node of activity" within the group. But Anonymous is still very much alive, she said.

"They could easily emerge again as a force to contend with," she told HuffPost in an email.

The arrests of members of Anonymous last year were among several highlights to come out of the FBI's cyber division in New York. (The five core members of Lulz Security have pleaded guilty.) In another case, the FBI in New York led an investigation that resulted in the arrests earlier this year of three alleged operators of the Gozi virus, which infected at least 1 million computers and stole millions of dollars from banks around the world.

A former Army captain, 41-year-old Berglas leads the FBI's cyber division in New York, one of the busiest of the FBI's 56 field offices. His office overlooks the skyline of lower Manhattan, the center of the financial world and a frequent target of hackers. Last month, a Russian man was charged with breaking into the servers of the Nasdaq stock exchange and deleting, changing and stealing data.

Austin P. Berglas, FBI assistant special agent.
The cyber division in New York is divided into five teams of investigators. One unit is tasked with getting digital evidence off cell phones, cameras, computers and tablets to support investigations into a wide range cases, from organized crime to computer hacking to child pornography. Berglas said the investigators for the Computer Analysis Response Team have become increasingly adept at breaking encryption methods used by suspects to conceal the contents of computer files.

The other four teams divide their attention to cybercrime based on the hackers' country of origin. Since most hackers attack U.S. computers from overseas, the FBI often works with law enforcement in other countries, Berglas said. Sometimes, investigators find evidence of hackers from several different countries inside the network of a single U.S. company.

"We call it the dirty pond environment," he said. "You think it might just be one actor responsible for the intrusion, and once you get in and start looking at the company there's remnants of a whole host of actors -- from week-old activity to multiple years they've been inside some companies and they just don’t know about it."

Cybercriminals have a variety of motives, but their methods are often the same. Most break into computer systems by tricking people to click on malicious links in emails that appear to come from trusted sources, a technique known as "spear phishing," Berglas said.

"It’s the number one most common intrusion vector we see in any type of attack,” Berglas said. "Major financial companies spend millions and millions of dollars on security, and all [hackers] have to do is get someone with credentials to click on a spear-phishing site and that’s how they get in.”

Cybercriminals have become adept at hiding their IP addresses -- the string of numbers assigned to individual computers -- to disguise their locations from law enforcement. But eventually, even the most skilled hackers get sloppy, Berglas said.

Hector Monsegur, aka "Sabu," the FBI informant whose cooperation led to the arrests of LulzSec last year, left his IP address exposed. The error allowed investigators to track his location to an apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side and eventually led to his arrest.

It's that type of misstep that the FBI is looking for.

"It’s easy to sit behind a computer and think you're anonymous and do these illegal types of activity, whether it’s hacking into a company or trading child pornography or buying and selling stolen identities," he said. "But it’s just a matter of time before these criminals make mistakes and we capture them. All it takes is just one time."


Bron: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Anonymous' Secret Presence In The U.S. Army

An active-duty Army captain and member of Anonymous describes how the organization operates, his own involvement in the Arab Spring, how the crackdown on Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden has affected soldiers, and how more leaks are on the way. He has agreed to speak with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity.


How do you know who is in Anonymous?
Initially we have the handshaking phase. The lingo is still relatively unknown. In conversation, you drop in jokes. If you are with someone on a mission, you’re like, “Man, there are over 9,000 reasons that this is a bad idea.” That initially establishes friendship. Once you feel comfortable with the person and they aren’t just posing as part of the culture, then you talk about what they’ve done and how much a part of it they are. It gets to the point where you are discussing individual operations.

What are the most popular operations amongst soldiers?
Anonymous is so distributed and leaderless that everyone has operations they love and hate. Operation Cartel, especially at Fort Bliss. Operation Dark Net was universally loved. And Operation Payback was pretty well received.

What about you?
I was involved in the Arab Spring opening up internet communications. I was a facilitator for a lot of people who have more skills than me in the cyber world. I knew people who I met through 4chan, 9Chan, and 7Chan and then a lot of AnonOps IRCs and who they needed to talk to — the organizations that would help them, and people in government would give them resources and access — and was able to convince them to talk to people in Anonymous. I got people in the right [internet relay chat] rooms at the right time.

Would the military consider you a white or black hat?
The military sees me as black hat.

Is that a fair assessment?
All hats are gray. Every white hacker I know has a night job that is very much a black-hat job.

What were the results of what you did for the Arab Spring?
From what I heard they were able to establish ways to assist the activists to have a method where they could get information out of Egypt and have certain Twitter accounts tweet that information on their behalf. But I don’t know for sure. As soon as I was like, “Hey, this is this person,” and vice versa, they did tweet confirmation to make sure that certain Twitter accounts were controlled by certain people, and then I headed out of the room so there would be no “taint” of having a fed there.

What specific actions have other soldiers taken?
There are several [soldiers] I know that probably did things, but I don’t know know that they did. I can legally say, probably under a [lie] detector, I have no proof that they did it. We keep our activities totally separate because at any point in time I can be put in the chair that I can’t lie in. You have to keep the /b/ [4chan’s “Random” board] brotherhood strong.

Does the military know about the Anonymous presence?
Pre-Manning, there were several academic papers put out trying to analyze it and school the leadership. Because the Army is a very top-down organization, they assume that [Anonymous] is too. Leadership wasn’t concerned with it until Manning happened. Then they read everything under the [lens] of what Manning did and it just scared them — scared them blind. They know we are in there and they assume that we are all going to do a Manning or a Snowden.

How have they addressed it?
Every six months you are mandated to get a Threat Awareness and Reporting Procedures Brief. It used to be very much like how to … spot the Iraqi contractor who is pacing off your base. Now it is, “Look at the person at your left and right. Are they espousing social beliefs that don’t line up with Army values? What websites do they go to at work?” With the caveat that it is OK to have political beliefs that are different. You get a heavy-handed feeling.

I have had more than a few officers come up to me and as we are trying to talk about [Anonymous] they are worried, like, “Are you CID [working undercover for the Central Investigative Division]?” Because you always worry about that.

Are the retaliations against Manning and Snowden discouraging Anonymous activity and the desire to leak information?
A lot [of Anonymous members] have been in long enough and are jaded. They are watching as the government comes down harder and harder. There is a growing sense of disdain and hatred because we are complicit in it. There are some secrets that need to be secrets but the stuff [the military] keeps secret just to protect the bottom line — you just feel like you are selling your soul every day. That is a lot of the motivation. Especially for people of the generation that believe that information should be free.

Are we going to see more leaks?
Yes. A lot [of Anonymous members] are mid- to high-rank NCOs. They are well-respected, have connections, and overly large security clearances. A lot of people who are part of the [Anonymous] culture are just dying at this point for something to come across their table that isn’t already out there. It is so easy to leak information that if you want to, you can do it.

Bron: www.buzzfeed.com

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Conspiracy Theories! | Hackers attack spy site – New Zealand Herald

Worldwide activist group Anonymous is believed to be behind a hack attack on the Government Communications Security Bureau website on Friday.

On Thursday, Anonymous posted a threatening video on YouTube, claiming that Prime Minister John Key, the Act Party and veteran politician Peter Dunne were to be held responsible for the destruction of internet freedom and basic human rights of New Zealand citizens by passing the GCSB bill, “which allows your government to spy on you”.

It is understood the GCSB website suffered a saturation of external communication requests, to the point where it could not respond to legitimate traffic.

The communications interception agency confirmed the attack slowed its gateway for about 30 minutes.

In the warning video, a man wearing a black hooded outfit and Guy Fawkes mask said: “We, as Anonymous have decided to take action. To the Government of New Zealand, you now have our full attention and we will be watching your every move … this is your final warning.”

A spokesman for GCSB said there could have been some temporary degradation of service.


<sub>- Herald on Sunday

By Russell Blackstock Email Russell</sub>

Bron: conspiracytheories.us.com

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Anonymous announced to leak documents that would prove the Spanish government corruption - Hackers News Bulletin

SPAIN: Today Anonymous hackers hacked the website of Noblejas Peoples Party (Toledo) because anonymous wants to reveal government corruption and this is not the first time when this website was hacked, anonymous also were over this website back in july this year.

The website was defaced today with a video with the title ‘Secret files part 2′. In the description you can read slogans like “ What has come to light, come to light ”or” People of Spain, stand up and fight. ”

Anonymous claims to reveal new documents that would prove the Spanish government corruption.

Anonymous already in the fight with Spain’s govt. from July this year, they hacked Spain’s People Party Website (Partido Popular), which is the country’s governing party and leaked their Financial documents.

Specifically, hackers target Spanish politicians in terms of “you politician is working for the people, and seems not to understand that concept.”

The hacker group complains that “ the Spanish have virtually no health, education and work , if not social rights have been undermined by an ignorant government that only works for large corporations and for their own benefit. ”

Therefore, the group announced that “no one is going to take part in the fighting in the streets, but it will bring to light documents” in which demonstrate the relationship of the Executive “to drug traffickers , which exerted influence peddling with the judiciary, police chiefs and heads of customs “.

Noblejas Peoples Party website is still defaced and the date of new documents not disclosed till now that would prove the Spanish government corruption.

Here are the Two Videos by an Anonymous hacker uploaded to YouTube regarding the leaks:

secret files parte 2

secret files 2

Bron: hackersnewsbulletin.com

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FBI used Anonymous and Lulzsec Hackers to attack foreign governments - The Hacker News

Sentencing for former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as "Sabu" , has again been delayed. Monsegur pleaded guilty to a dozen criminal counts two years prior and stands to face more a maximum sentence of more than 124 years.


Another Lulzsec Hacker Jeremy Hammond has claimed that the FBI used Sabu to coordinate attacks against foreign governments, by Anonymous hackers and Others.

The delays indicate that the FBI is not extracting information from Monsegur and this could mean that the hacker may be helping FBI with other covert operations as Jeremy Hammond claims.
Jeremy Hammond, released a statement on Thursday accusing the US government of asking Monsegur to encourage fellow hacktivists to infiltrate foreign government entities.

“What many do not know is that Sabu was also used by his handlers to facilitate the hacking of the targets of the government’s choosing including numerous websites belonging to foreign governments”, Hammond said.

“What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally”, Hammond added.

"Why was the US using us to infiltrate the private networks of foreign governments? What are they doing with the information we stole? And will anyone in our government ever be held accountable for these crimes?"

Hammond pleaded guilty in May to hacking private intelligence firm Stratfor to expose millions of revelatory emails. The Illinois native faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced, scheduled for 15th November.

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"Dismantled" Anonymous and the Million Mask March - CNN iReport



Last month, Austin P. Berglas, Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the FBI in New York told the Huffington Post that the FBI has effectively dismantled the hacktivist collective Anonymous saying “they’re still yacking on twitter and posting things,” implying that, at least for the time being, the group was in disarray. So it may come as a shock to find out that at the time of this statement Anonymous was in the midst of planning their largest operation to date, and they’re doing so publically.

On November 5th Anonymous members are planning on marching in the capitals of over twenty nations simultaneously. The events are primarily being organized through Facebook and not on some obscure IRC channel, making it difficult to believe that the FBI was unaware of such a substantial change in strategy. In the past, Anonymous has largely confined itself to cyberspace. They’re known for stealing the personal information of Federal employees and releasing the details to the public, defacing government websites, or simply blocking access to them. In the days after the declaration of victory by the FBI, Anonymous released a “document dump” reported to be personal information of Federal Reserve employees. Now Anonymous appears ready to take the battle out of cyberspace and on to the streets of capitals around the world. Washington, London, Paris, Perth, Sofia, Hong Kong, Ottawa, Dublin, as well as many other cities all have active pages dedicated to preparation for the November 5th event.

Contrary to many operations in the past, some participants are not even attempting to conceal their identities. John Fairhurst is the organizer of the Washington, DC march and is certainly not trying to remain hidden. Fairhurst is quick to point out that that he isn’t a leader within Anonymous, stating that the organization doesn’t have leaders. One member, who chose to remain anonymous, summarized the leaderless organization as “a street with all of the members lined up on each side of the street. Somebody gets an idea, and that becomes a car in our little story. As the idea car drives down the road, the people that agree with it hop in and ride that idea to its destination. This car just happens to be driving to Washington.” Fairhurst stressed that the event will be “peaceful and nonviolent," while adding that “the Million Mask March is not only a protest showing our strength in numbers, it is as well the issuance of a warning to the powers that be.” He also went on to say that the event will be kid friendly and that no drugs or alcohol will be permitted.

Michael Pendleton is not planning on taking a figurative car to Washington. Pendleton is leaving August 28th from Tallahassee on foot. His plan is to walk the 850 miles to Washington spreading awareness of the march along the way. Commenting on why he was engaging in the March, he said “hopefully we wake some people up and don't get arrested. I dang sure am not walking 850 miles to be arrested.” Pendleton, a devout Christian, says he “will stand with everyone and anyone to say we have the right to think, feel, and be different.”

The major shift in strategy and tactics being employed by Anonymous is seen by some within the group as the natural progression of a strengthening movement. “When we didn’t have a lot of support, we had to stay in the shadows on the web. Now, people all over the world are waking up to the message, so we can go to the nation’s capital and not be worried about the FBI beating us up or throwing us in jail for no reason other than being Anonymous.” said a man that claimed his name was Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes is a British historical figure who serves as a mascot to the Anonymous movement. The iconic Anonymous mask is actually a Guy Fawkes mask. The messages of Anonymous are many but revolve mainly around civil and human rights.

The DC page for “The Million Mask March” has 8,668 people that have confirmed they will be attending with another 89,000 or so invited at the time of writing. Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, Hartford, Tucson, Cincinnati, and St. Louis are some of the other American cities where Anonymous plans to march that day.

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Hackers threaten to reveal secrets of New Zealand MPs behind snooping bill — RT News



The Anonymous hacker group has threatened to post New Zealand MPs’ secrets online after the country’s parliament passed an NSA-style spying bill. It follows a hack by the group against the NZ government that took out the Kiwi secret services’ website.

In an interview over an encrypted link with New Zealand newspaper the Herald, the hacktivist group said they would target the politicians responsible for a so-called snooping bill. The group said they were giving the MPs a chance to prove to the NZ public that they had nothing to hide.

"Releasing such personal information sends a message that they're not very hard to find, they aren't the only ones who can gather intelligence,” a representative of Anonymous said.

The hacktivist organization knocked out the Government Communications Security Bureau’s (GCSB) website on Friday in a denial-of-service attack. In the interview with the Herald, the group said the cyber-attack was merely a distraction that masked another hack to obtain secret data.

Anonymous is opposing an amendment that was passed by the New Zealand parliament on August 21. The legislation would grant the GCSB – New Zealand’s equivalent of the NSA – new powers to support the country’s police, Defense Force and Security Intelligence Service.

Opponents of the controversial bill have criticized the legislation as ambiguous, and say it could open the door to NSA-style surveillance. Anonymous has characterized the bill as “an unadulterated violation of human rights, constitutionally illegal, and an invasion of the people's privacy.”

They have also criticized NZ Prime Minister John Key, who championed the bill, for failing to stand up to the US.
The GCSB confirmed the hack attack Friday, but rejected the claims that classified data had been taken.

The debate over the GCSB’s new powers triggered a number of mass protests, with three quarters of New Zealanders “concerned” by the amendment, according to a survey by Fairfax Media-Ipsos.

However, Key has rejected criticism of the bill as fueled by “misinformation” and “conspiracy” fears stirred up by the country’s opposition. He has trenchantly defended the bill as necessary to protect the country’s cyber-security in the face of various threats.

"There will be times where a serious cyber-intrusion is detected against a New Zealander and the GCSB will then need to look at content – that's why the law allows that. But that should be the end point, not the starting point," Key said.

One of the most vocal members of the NZ opposition, Kim Dotcom, founder of MegaUploads, said the so-called threats were “imaginary” and a justification for “a radical termination of our basic rights.”

Last January New Zealand police stormed Dotcom’s mansion in Auckland, seizing digital material and other assets. A judge later ruled that the raid was illegal. Since then Dotcom has accused the New Zealand government of collaborating with the US secret services.

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Why CyberGuerrilla Anonnexus is needed
Can you rely on a corporate provider for confidentiality of your sensitive communications? Not only do they typically scan and record the content of your messages for a wide variety of purposes, they also concede to the demands of governments that restrict digital freedom and fail to have strict policies regarding their user’s privacy. Not to mention their obviously commercial interests put commercial providers at odds with what we are doing. Government’s practices “full pipe monitoring” and association mapping, which gives them the ability to build a detailed map of how our social movements are organized, worse this gives them precise information about what linkages should be disrupted in order to disrupt large social movements

We believe it is vital that essential communication infrastructure be controlled by movement organizations and not corporations or the government.

We strive to keep our communications as secure and private as we can. We do not log your IP address. (Most services keep detailed records of every machine which connects to the servers. We keep only information which cannot be used to uniquely identify your machine). All your data is stored by CyberGuerrilla AnoNneXus in encrypted form. We work hard to keep our servers secure and well defended against any malicious attack. We do not share any of our user data with anyone. We will actively fight any attempt to subpoena or otherwise acquire any user information or logs. We will not read, search, or process any of your communications other than by automatic means to protect you from viruses and spam or when directed to do so by you when troubleshooting.

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The CyberGuerrilla AnoNneXus Collective is an autonomous body based in Europe with collective members world wide. Our purpose is to aid in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom from want and freedom of expression, a world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally. We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression.

We value, support, and engage in struggles for human liberation, the ethical treatment of animals, and ecological sustainability. We join in the fight for freedom and the self-determination of all oppressed groups. We oppose all forms of prejudice, authoritarianism, and vanguard-ism.
We organize on the basis of autonomy, mutual aid, resource sharing, participatory knowledge, social advocacy, anti-oppression work, community creation, and secure communication.
We work to create revolution and a free society in the here and now by building alternative communication infrastructure designed to oppose and replace the dominant system.
We promote social ownership and anarchistic control over information, ideas, technology, and the means of communication.

We empower organizations and individuals to use technology in struggles for liberation. We work to support each other in overcoming the systemic oppression embedded in the use and development of technology.

The CyberGuerrilla Concept is based on an optimistic view of the prevailing autonomy, mutual aid, resource sharing, participatory knowledge, social advocacy, anti-oppression work, community creation, and secure communication. Wir machen Praxis!

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anonymissexpress.cyberguerrilla.org | ENOUGH! | If treating people as people means anything at all, it means recognizing their right to self-determination, even when we disagree
lilithlela.cyberguerrilla.org | Lilith Lela | The wind howled. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed …
nanasilvergrim.cyberguerrilla.org | Hoist’n th’ Folly Roger | … on The Planetary Work Machine! Work to live, not live to work!

odinn.cyberguerrilla.org | Ódinn: Building Communication and Making the World Happier, One Post At a Time Home of Radio Nyan http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-nyan
www.occupymedia.org | @OccupyMediaDe: German based Occupy the media
www.freebradleymanning.net | @freebradde: German based blog for FREE Bradley Manning Öffentlich machen eines Verbrechens ist kein Verbrechen
Occupy Savvy (Mirror) | Occupy Savvy is a living history of the Occupy movement worldwide
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How Anonymous Plans To Bring Down Syrian Electronic Army Leaders

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A band of Anonymous hackers have pledged to wage war on the Syrian Electronic Army and expose the identities of four people it believes are leaders of the pro-Bashar al-Assad group, one member of the hacktivist collective has told TechWeekEurope.

Anonymous hacker BlackPlans told TechWeek, in a chat over a secure messaging service, of plans to uncloak The Shadow, The Pro, Syrian_34g13 and vict0r, all of whom have been cited before as key members of the Syrian Electronic Army.

The SEA, believed to be backed by the Syrian regime, has carried out numerous attacks on western media and rebel forces, hijacking social media accounts and using malware to infect enemy systems.

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Publeaks

Persbericht 9 september
Vandaag lanceert Stichting Publeaks samen met een groot aantal Nederlandse mediaorganisaties Publeaks (https://www.publeaks.nl), een website waarop iedereen veilig en anoniem documenten kan lekken naar de media. Het initiatief is bedoeld om klokkenluiders te beschermen, misstanden aan de kaak te stellen en onderzoeksjournalistiek te stimuleren en ondersteunen.

Publeaks is een doorgeefluik. Het faciliteert veilig lekken naar de pers: de afzender blijft volledig anoniem en kan zelf kiezen naar welke van de aangesloten media hij of zij documenten, geluid- en beeldfragmenten wil sturen. Ontvangende mediaorganisaties kunnen in een beveiligde omgeving de bestanden inzien en bewerken.

Publeaks maakt gebruik van de software GlobaLeaks die ontwikkeld is door het Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights (http://logioshermes.org). Publeaks heeft zelf geen toegang de gelekte bestanden, kan onmogelijk achterhalen wie de afzender is en publiceert niets. Deelnemende media hebben beloofd dat zij het materiaal voor publicatie checken op waarheidsgehalte, ondersteunende bronnen zoeken en hoor en wederhoor toepassen. Op een afgesloten deel van de website kunnen journalisten vragen achterlaten voor de anonieme tipgever. Het is aan de tipgever om te beslissen of hij of zij hierop in gaat. Journalisten die iets via Publeaks ontvangen zijn op de hoogte welke andere media de documenten eveneens hebben gekregen en kunnen besluiten tot een gezamenlijk onderzoek.

Publeaks is een initiatief van de Stichting Publeaks, een stichting die zich inzet om het controlerend vermogen van de pers te stimuleren, en wordt gefinancierd door deelnemende persorganisaties. Dit zijn: AD, ANP, De Correspondent, De Groene Amsterdammer, de Volkskrant, Het Financieele Dagblad, het Parool, NOS Nieuws, NRC Handelsblad, Nieuwsuur, Nu.nl, Pownews, RTL-Nieuws, Trouw en Vrij Nederland.

De samenwerking tussen vrijwel alle toonaangevende Nederlandse mediaorganisaties maakt dit initiatief uniek in de wereld, op een moment dat veiligheid, privacy en bescherming van klokkenluiders actueler is dan ooit.

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'Topiary' tells all: Prison, activism, and LulzSec's beginnings

The young hacker, who's real name is Jake Davis, opens up about his time in the cyberattack collective.

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We invented LulzSec during a very bored conversation on some abandoned IRC server. It was "Lulz Leaks" but then I forgot all of the passwords and we had to change the name. The top hat and monocle image was chosen at random from one of my Reaction Face folders with several thousand other, unrelated pictures. From there it was a case of making it up as we went along. I wouldn't even call it a conspiracy because that implies some level of organization. It's fantastic that companies are securing themselves and that we're taking Internet privacy seriously at a mainstream level now, even though LulzSec was fundamentally a waste of time.

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You've said Parmy Olson's book "is factually misleading, dishonestly quoted and does not reflect the true lives of its characters." Any specific examples? I enjoyed the book as a casual Anon follower but didn't know what to believe or not believe, lacking first-hand insight.

The psychoanalysis attempts in the book are really quite insulting to be honest. She constantly tried to guess what people were thinking "behind their screens" by reading simple text chatlogs, such as once directly stating that I tensed in fear when someone in an IRC room mentioned the word "Scotland", which was entirely made up from her end after she read some leaked material from the Guardian. There's so many of these "he said this on the Internet and therefore he was thinking this", "he could think this because X or Y" and other assumptions that she either doesn't realize are incredibly patronising/ignorant or she's doing it on purpose to engage the audience with her "characters". My whole relationship with this book was essentially taking the drafts she'd written and telling her to remove the copious amounts of speculative, frankly damaging nonsense she'd blatantly fabricated because she knows that if she bullshits 100 times I might spot 95 of them and she's left with a nice 5 bullshits. It went on and on until eventually she even managed to sneak a few more bullshits into the final work without me seeing, then kept saying "it's out of my hands" after I asked for more and more fixes.
Maybe what spawned a seed of wanting to speak out was when she wrote a draft of the book that didn't in any way make Sabu out to be suspicious, then when she learned that he was an FBI informant went back and rewrote how the "characters" were "feeling" to make it seem like they all trusted Sabu a lot more than the previous draft, taking the exact same quotes and spinning them in different ways to suit her new "plot twist" that got some kids named on an indictment that begins "The United States of America VS.", which seemed to completely go over Parmy's head in order to satisfy her frankly clueless publishers/editor. It's as if they all thought it was a fiction full of fun and games.
It's surely informative and enjoyable for everyone else, and the only reason she started attempting to psychoanalyse my every move was because literally nobody else was bothering with her at that stage, hence the entire book turning into a Topiary shitstorm towards the end, which is not what I had in mind at all. I say this now because, on reflection, I was a very, very stupid and gullible child a few years ago (as you can imagine) and she took full advantage of that like only the most cynical kind of journalist would. The short version is I gave her a lot of information, a bulk pile of it, and she sculpted it into a very messy ice statue of a horse falling into a pool of custard and horribly drowning, again and again, until all you're left with is horsey custard steak.
The even shorter version is that she has no idea what she's talking about, lucked out and capitalized, which is a very smart move so good for her.

Anonymous - OpNSA Release V John Boehner

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Anonymous to Protest Against Monsanto with DDOS Attacks and Defacements

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Hackers of Anonymous Americalatina plan on launching a protest campaign on October 12, 2013 against Monsanto. The operation against the controversial seed giant, OpMonsanto, will allegedly include distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks and website defacements.

“We applaud the bravery of the organizations and citizens who are standing up to Monsanto, and we are united with you against this oppressive corporate abuse. Monsanto is contaminating the world with chemicals and genetically modified food crops for profit while claiming to feed the hungry and protect the environment,” the hackers said in a video statement released in September.

Anonymous hackers demand that Monsanto stop contaminating the global food chain, intimidating small farmers, using destructive herbicides and pesticides, and bribing officials.

“Anonymous urges all concerned citizens to stand up for these farmers, fight for the future of your own food. Protest, organize, spread info to your friends! Say no to toxic chemicals in your food! Say no to GMO! Say no to Monsanto!” the hackers concluded their statement.

I’ll be monitoring the operation and provide updates if the hacktivists’ threats materialize.

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13 alleged Anonymous members indicted for DDoS attacks on Hollywood

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On October 3, a federal grand jury indicted 13 alleged members of the hacker collective Anonymous for conspiring to intentionally cause damage to protected computers. Each of them is charged with committing cybercrimes while taking part in Anonymous’ Operation Payback.

Operation Payback originated on 4chan, and involved Anonymous targeting organizations that had lobbied for stricter enforcement of copyright laws online, such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Some of these same institutions, most of which represent America’s entertainment industry, have previously hired the Indian firm Aiplex Software to privately enforce these laws. This includes forcibly shutting down websites that won’t comply by using a denial of service attack. In 2010, the Managing Director of Aiplex confirmed that Hollywood studios, including 20th Century Fox, had hired the company.

After popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay was attacked, Anonymous retaliated by taking down various entertainment industry websites, including that of the MPAA. In order to accomplish the takedown, Anonymous also used a distributed denial of service attack, which is the cause of the recent criminal indictment.

At least one of the defendants, Dennis Collins, is also a member of the PayPal 14, a separate Anonymous group that was previously charged with similar crimes. The 14 allegedly carried out DDoS attacks against eBay-owned online payments site PayPal in 2010, after PayPal blocked donations to whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

The PayPal 14 case remains in limbo. The defendants reportedly tried to negotiate a settlement earlier this year, but no resolution has been reached and no trial date set.

Both the PayPal 14 and the Operation Payback defendants were charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, called “the worst law in technology” by some activists. It was famously used against Aaron Swartz, a young Internet activist who committed suicide in January 2013 while facing 35 years in prison for downloading academic journals without permission.

DDoS attacks, charged as hacking under the CFAA, are often used as a form of political protest. Earlier this year, Anonymous unsuccessfully petitioned the White House to consider them protected speech acts under the First Amendment. They argue that the law should make a distinction between "hacking" and simple push-button DDoS attacks like the ones in the PayPal and Operation Payback cases, which don't involve unauthorized access to any data.

In June, two U.S. Senators introduced a bill called “Aaron’s Law” in honor of Swartz, with the intention of reforming the CFAA.

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The last place you expected Anonymous: The ballet

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On Nov.15, the Boston-based Juventas New Music Ensemble, a group focused on performing the work of emerging composers under 35 years old, is debuting a ballet called HackPolitik. Among other things, the performance seeks to make artistic sense of not just the collective called Anonymous but what they represent in terms of how we communicate. It was the idea of young American composer Peter Van Zandt Lane, who proposed it to the ensemble’s artistic director, Lidiya Yankovskaya, in May 2012.

Van Zandt Lane, choreographer Kate Ladenheim of New York dance group the People Movers, and Yankovskaya, who is conducting, collaborated on a piece built around Parmy Olson’s We Are Anonymous.

HackPolitik meshes Van Zandt Lanes new musical composition, itself a union of traditional instrumentation and electronics, with Ladenheims choreography in a stage environment that utilizes digital design, all under Yankovskaya conducting. The piece explores how the manufacture of identity has changed in a world where the speed of information has become a variable.

We talked to Lane, Yankovskaya, and Ladenheim about the production.

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#Justice4Daisy: Anonymous threatens to go after alleged rapists

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Anger is mounting after the cover-up by local officials of an alleged rape of two teenage girls in Missouri has been exposed. Meanwhile, internet vigilantes aligned with Anonymous are readying to work the case themselves.

A story published in the Kansas City Star over the weekend by reporter Dugan Arnett is grabbing widespread attention as readers continue to circulate the 4,000-word article about an incident that began with the alleged sexual assault of two teen girls in early 2012.

The Star has been working closely with the case for the last seven months, Arnett said, and that research culminated in the recent expose titled “Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family.”

It’d be a feat unto itself to reiterate Arnett’s words while still doing his original story justice, but the gist of the Star report is that felony charges against a 17-year-old popular senior football player from Maryville, Missouri were dropped even after the star athlete himself admitted to having sex with a highly-intoxicated girl three years his junior. A 13-year-old girl was also allegedly raped during the encounter by someone, and another 17-year-old boy recorded the incident on his iPhone and was eventually hit with a felony charge himself over allegedly sexual exploiting a minor. Even with hard evidence and immaculate testimony, however, the case fell apart, no one was convicted and the family of one of the alleged victims was essentially driven out of town.

Parents of the 14-year-old girl, Daisy Coleman, are OK with having their daughter’s identity out in the open. And as her story is being shared all over the Web, the internet’s own army of computer-chair investigators is pursuing a probe of their own.

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Kijk welke DDoS-aanvallen er nu in de wereld plaatsvinden

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Google lanceerde gisteren met het Project Shield anti-hackerssoftware die websites moet beschermen tegen DDoS-aanvallen. Bij de tools zit ook een kaart die in een oogopslag duidelijk maakt welke aanvallen er live plaatsvinden in de wereld. Daaruit blijkt dat uit Nederland veel hackersaanvallen komen.

Een DDoS-aanval (Distributed Denial of Service) is een aanval waarbij een server bestookt wordt met (vals) internetverkeer, zodat de server tijdelijk bezwijkt of moeilijk bereikbaar wordt. De Digital Attack Map laat zien welke aanvallen er tussen landen plaatsvinden, welke hacks komen uit een land zelf en ook waarvan de herkomst onduidelijk is.

Anonymous - Message On Edward Snowden - Prism

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