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The defacement also show tremendous amounts of sensitive corporate information including internal accounts, passwords, server and cloud configurations, access information to the antivirus lab's Teamviewer as well as alternate means of accessing their internals via "logmein"...
http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/20619-Panda-Suffers-the-Wrath-of-Antisec.htmlThe defacement also show tremendous amounts of sensitive corporate information... more
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If we we consider the Occupy movements across the globe, demonstrating and protesting against income inequality and inequitable policies around commerce and taxation, the persistent cart vulnerability could become a seemingly benign form of occupation that could develop into a serious threat...
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/18630-OWWWS-The-Other-Form-of-Occupy.htmlIf we we consider the Occupy movements across the globe, demonstrating and protesting... more
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Hackers have reportedly broken into Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik's email account and turned the contents over to police in an effort to help their investigation. See, hackers aren't all amoral cybermonsters.
The eight-person Norwegian hacking crew Noira, led by a 17-year-old boy named "Frederik," say they broke into two of Breivik's email accounts after he killed more than 70 people in Norway last month. The group turned over the emails to a freelance journalist Kjetil Stormark who was writing a story about the group; he then turned the emails over to the cops. Noira was also behind the hack of Breivik's Twitter account.
Noira is essentially the Norwegian branch of the hacktivist group Anonymous, and it appears they were motivated by similar activist goals—to help the case against Breivik. Stormak says he's not publishing the emails so as not to jeopardize the investigation (boring), but tells Threatpost "The e-mails show some of the activity and contacts made by the perpetrator in the weeks and months leading up to the terror attacks. The mails also tell a tale about his private life." One thing everyone wnats to know is if Breivik was working alone or as part of an international anti-Muslim terrorist group, as he's claimed.
This could cause some weird legal issues for the cops: Will they be able to use evidence that was so obviously illegally obtained? Also, it's sort of awkward for them to be working with "Frederick" even as he's wanted by the FBI in its international Anonymous manhunt, according to Threatpost. Could be a good buddy cop comedy, though.
http://gawker.com/5829286/teenage-hacker-breaks-into-norway-shooters-emailHackers have reportedly broken into Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik's email... more
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For the Internet collective known as Anonymous, the lulz are bittersweet this week with the arrest of the hacktivist extraordinaire known as Topiary.
"Topiary" is the online alias of 18-year-old Jake Davis. Authorities claim Davis is a key player in the Anonymous collective. Davis is also accused of association with Lulz Security (LulzSec) - the short lived but stunningly successful offshoot of Anonymous.
Davis appeared at a central London court Monday after London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, announced Sunday they had charged the 18-year-old Davis with multiple offenses. Davis is being charged with unauthorized access to a computer system and conspiring with others to launch online attacks against the website of the U.K.'s Serious Organized Crime Agency, the British equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Davis is reported to be the creator of press releases for both Anonymous and Lulz Security. Davis is being described by his fellow hacktivists as the "greatest digital graffiti artist of all time". As such, Davis is quickly becoming an Internet celebrity. The fact that media reports describe Davis as being autistic only contributes to the mystique and air of celebrity surrounding Topiary.
Davis supporters, via the Anonymous collective, have launched an online campaign - Free Topiary - planning protests and collecting donations to pay for legal fees.
The following is an excerpt from Free Topiary:
A purveyor of many lulz, this swank garden hedge known as Topiary left his personal Twitter account with a quotation... "You cannot arrest an idea."
Jake wrote many lulzy press releases for both Anonymous and Lulz Security.
The Lulz Boat's journey on the seven proxseas went underway only with the aid of Jake and his natural ability to entertain.
There was a great purpose and an important message behind these mischevious acts of cyber-vandalism. Jake Davis brought lulz to the oppressed. He spoke in a voice that resonated globally and reached us personally.
Jake Davis may face jail time, but he publicly spoke of this in the most noble of terms. A jail sentence is, to him, not a failure of any sort.
It is a triumph.
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ~ Henry David Thoreau
The following is a selection of relevant tweets in support of Topiary:
We need more people like #Topiary free him
As a crotchy oldman I say, Free #Topiary
Topiary used SQL in college but he never injected. #FreeTopiary
If I was a judge, I'd give Topiary 9001 hrs of community service & count every one of his crimes as hours off his sentence. #FreeTopiary
If I have kids, I'll raise them to be the nextTopiary #FreeTopiary
#Topiary is not a hacker or a DDoSer. His arrest will not slow us down. We are stronger than ever. We are #Anonymous. We are one! #AntiSec
Currently Jake "Topiary" Davis is out on bail.
https://www.examiner.com/anonymous-in-national/free-topiary-from-anonymous-to-celebrity-hacktivistFor the Internet collective known as Anonymous, the lulz are bittersweet this week... more
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