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Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery
Wednesday, an operating system designed around a flavor of Linux was released by an apparent cell of Anonymous accordingly loaded with anonymity tools, hacking suites, and privacy software—but it also potentially came with a side of Trojans and malware—and this brought Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle to ask “Is Anonymous Spinning out of Control?” The presence of ...
Creators of Wizard101 to the 2012 Keynote Digital Kids Conference in April
The massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming industry has proven itself to be a powerful vector for pulling people together to play video games and for the enterprise to capably make money. Families have always been a large consumer of entertainment and MMOs may prove to be no obstacle to this factor of everyday life, as a ...
Hacker Group The Consortium “Exposes” 72,000 Users from Porn Site Digital Playground
If there’s anything that we’ve learned from 2011, it’s that hackers like pornography… Or at least they like to hack into pornography websites, steal the usernames and passwords, personal information, and credit card numbers. This is possibly because as an industry, these websites attract a great deal of users and also possibly it’s because they’re ...
Cloud-Streaming for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online Announced
With services such as OnLive producing the capability for users to play solo video games across the cloud—it seemed like it might only be a matter of time for massively-multiplayer online games to take a dip in the cloudy waters. The reason being that while people really want to be able to play games on ...
AntiSec Christmas Stratfor Hack Cost $700,000 in Credit Card Fraud
Remember last year when Anonymous and AntiSec breached the FBI think tank Stratfor and made news by making off with 200 gigabytes of personal and finical data and 60,000 credit card numbers? It was about Christmas time and Anonymous decided to make some rather large donations at the time described a sort of Santa Robin ...
Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code
Today, The Pirate Bay came to index a torrent containing the leaked source code of Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 after a long, strange journey including hackers, intrigue, and (failed) police stings. The entire thing started in January when a hacker with the handle Yama Tough threatened via Twitter to release the code. Then 1.27 gigabytes ...
Anonymous Takes Down Vatican Website Alleging “Corruption”
Not willing to sit on their heels, Anonymous recently decided to bag the Vatican. They did so through claims of retaliation against “corruption in the Roman Catholic Church,” and Wednesday morning, they took down the Vatican’s website Among the darkened websites include www.vatican.va and the hacker group also claimed to have taken out several others, ...
30,000 WordPress Installs Compromised In Newest Round of Malware
This week Websense Security Labs reported a massive infection of numerous WordPress installations by a new wave of malware distributing fake antivirus software. In their report, they cite that as of Monday, over 200,000 infected web pages had been discovered and close to 30,000 unique hosts had been identified. The installed Trojan hijacks the browsing ...
LinkedIn Acquisition of Rapportive Brings Social-Professional Magic to Gmail
The interesting Gmail social-context plugin, Rapportive, has been acquired by social-media for professionals company LinkedIn. Rapportive creates plugin software that provides context-sensitive social-media information on top of Gmail’s user interface. As a result, it works as a sort of highly immersive address book that brings a lot of social-media information to the front when replying ...
Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge
Website defacement has become the mainstay of what essentially boils down to cybervandalism—and, just like its inner-city variant, it’s used as a medium to spread both playful and political messages. Yesterday, a multitude of subdomains belonging to security firm Panda Security were obliterated and replaced with cyber-graffiti scrawls, including a YouTube video, and the text-output ...
