Colbert Explains Cyberwar
On the Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert provided some background on “the First Great Cyberwar” as the hacktivist collective Anonymous has dubbed it, the “Defend Assange” sub-mission of Operation Payback.
Archive for December, 2010
Anonymous Defaces NASA Web Site, Sort Of
Reports are emerging that members of the hacker, or something because they don’t want to be called that anymore (from the IRC: To the idiot reporters: we’re not hackers), collective Anonymous defaced NASA in support of Wikileaks.
Dec 14, 2010 | 5 comments | View Post
The Anonymous PR Guy and a Greece Connection
The PDF’s raw creation date further points to the Anonymous Press Release from yesterday being created in Greece, which happens to be the homeland of a graphic artist with the same name as the pdf’s author field, Alex Tapanaris.
Dec 11, 2010 | 12 comments | View Post
Anonymous Releases Very Unanonymous Press Release
Today, December 10th, Anonymous, an Internet gathering, released a press release which you can read below. In it, a description is provided of what Anonymous is about, what Operation Payback is, and where the media is getting it wrong. Also in it, its author forgot to remove his name in the pdf’s Meta information.
Dec 10, 2010 | 32 comments | View Post
Anonymous Turns Operation Payback Toward “The Jester”
The Jester, a hacktivist who is normally known for short term denial of service attacks against Jihadist web forums and who recently claimed responsibility for an outage at Wikileaks in the middle of Cablegate (Wikileaks publication of U.S. diplomatic cables) has himself become the target of the large scale hacktivist protest called Operation Payback.
Dec 10, 2010 | 44 comments | View Post
ShmooCon: You’re a Jerk
Tickets sell outs for this event, one which will only allow 1,250 attendees, have occurred in seconds each time registration is opened. Where there is this kind of demand, there is bound to be chicanery.
Dec 06, 2010 | 13 comments | View Post
