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Three teenagers and two men have been arrested for their involvement in last month's online attacks in support of WikiLeaks.The five males aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26 were arrested this morning in a series of coordinated raids in West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London.All five are being held in custody at local police stations.The five were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the loose-knit group of "hacktivists" known as Anonymous, who temporarily crippled the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after those companies cut off financial services to WikiLeaks. The attacks followed WikiLeaks' release of US diplomatic cables from late November.Today's arrests were coordinated by the Metropolitan police working in conjunction with other UK forces and international agencies.Scotland Yard's issued a statement saying: "They are part of an ongoing [Metropolitan police] investigation into Anonymous which began last year following criminal allegations of DDoS [distributed denial of service] attacks by the group against several companies. "This investigation is being carried out in conjunction with international law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US."The so-called DDoS attacks, which bring down sites by bombarding them with repeated requests to load web pages, are illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act and carry a maximum fine of £5,000.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/27/anonymous-hacking
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Anonymous, the loosely-organized band of hacker activists and vigilantes, has chosen its next victim: The government of Tunisia. (They've taken down its official website.) Why? In part, because it tried to block access to secret-sharing website Wikileaks.
Sometime in early December, according to The Next Web Middle East, the Tunisian government blocked not just Wikileaks but any news source publishing or referencing leaked cables that originated or referenced Tunisia—including Tunileaks, a Tunisia-specific exploration of the massive cache of diplomatic communication. In one of the cables, an American diplomat referred to the country as "a police state"; currently, anti-government protests have wracked the country in the wake of an unemployed man's self-immolation.
The block of Tunileaks wasn't the first time the Tunisian government had attempted to censor the internet. But it seems to have been noteworthy enough to have spurred, or at least raised the profile of, a semi-organized effort to, well, mess with the Tunisian government's web presence. (It doesn't hurt that Wikileaks is the current internet cause célèbre.) A "recruiting" call went up on AnonNews.org, a user-edited clearing house for information and news by and about the disorganized, decentralized "hacktivist" group:
A time for truth has come. A time for people to express themselves freely and to be heard from anywhere in the world. The Tunisian government wants to control the present with falsehoods and misinformation in order to impose the future by keeping the truth hidden from its citizens. We will not remain silent while this happens. Anonymous has heard the claim for freedom of the Tunisian people. Anonymous is willing to help the Tunisian people in this fight against oppression. It will be done. It will be done.
This is a warning to the Tunisian government: attacks at the freedom of speech and information of its citizens will not be tolerated. Any organization involved in censorship will be targeted and will not be released until the Tunisian government hears the claim for freedom to its people. It's on the hands of the Tunisian government to stop this situation. Free the net, and attacks will cease, keep on that attitude and this will just be the beginning.
"#optunisia" so far seems to have taken the same kind of disruptive strategy that Anonymous hackers used in December against PayPal and MasterCard when those companies announced they wouldn't do business with Wikileaks anymore. But while in those cases the "hacking" was limited to DDoS attacks that took down the sites temporarily, there is some evidence that the hackers involved in #optunisia have been a little more sophisticated—specifically, this screenshot taken of the Tunisian Prime Minister's website (courtesy WL Central):
The Prime Minister's site, as well as official government site Tunisia.gov.tn and several others, are, as of this blog post's publication, down.
FOR THE FULL STORY :
http://gawker.com/5723104/anonymous-attacks-tunisian-government-over-wikileaks-censorship
[WL Central; AnonNews; Wikileaks Forum via Michael Hastings]
Send an email to Max Read, the author of this post, at max@gawker.com.Anonymous, the loosely-organized band of hacker activists and vigilantes, has chosen... more
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A hacker with a name and a plan or a member of Anonymous? Looks like there is some discussion going on about Coldblood or Chris Wood who's been talking to news outlets (now un-blurred) about Operation Payback and Anonymous.
From the Urlesque post, it sounds like for some members he's the King of /b/ and for other he's a user who broke the Anonymous ideals of being Anonymous/leaderless.
"In a 4chan thread from this afternoon, 4chan founder Moot (Chris Poole) responded to a thread claiming Chris Wood was the new King of /b/ with, "I disagree." When asked to elaborate, he offered an alternative king."-Urlesque
Going by images Moot posted a picture of Tinky Winky from teletubbies with the text "Some men just want to watch the world burn," (a line from Alfred in Dark Knight)
"Clearly moot is just messing with his followers. (It's also possibly an imposter.)"-Urlesque
From the posts, it sounds like Coldblood might hit some backlash from anon or will be ignored due to continuing Wikileaks operations. Though on twitter the Anonymous opps hit a problem with numerous fake accounts giving out different cyberwar commands, downside of no /b/ King.A hacker with a name and a plan or a member of Anonymous? Looks like there is some... more
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Cummings is currently being held in Federal custody without bail. According to Assange, the documents will identify the alleged victim of the assault, as well as a pattern of official misconduct by him. The leaked documents state that male TSA agents have reported being sexually harassed by the alleged victim.Cummings is currently being held in Federal custody without bail. According to... more
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Latest News Updates Percy Cummings didn't really get arrested for ejaculating on the TSA agent. Hours before being placed on Interpol’s most wanted list, Founder of the Wikileaks website Mr Julian Assange ...Latest News Updates Percy Cummings didn't really get arrested for ejaculating on... more
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"The data war between companies that have refused to do business with Wikileaks and the online activists keen to defend it is getting more intense.
The tool through which attacks are carried out against websites perceived to be anti-Wikileaks has now been downloaded more than 31,000 times.
Security experts warned people to avoid joining the voluntary botnet.
Targets of the loose-knit group Anonymous have so far included Visa, Mastercard and Paypal.
Amazon is expected to be among firms targeted next using the Anonymous attack tool known as LOIC. When a person installs the tool on their PC it enrols the machine into a voluntary botnet which then bombards target sites with data."
One more excerpt:
"As well as releasing the attack tool, the Anonymous group has also been active in helping to create mirror sites. To date there are over one thousand sites offering exact copies of the content on Wikileaks.
It is also ensuring the information is available on dark nets, heavily encrypted layers of the internet via which information can be extracted while remaining untraceable.
The DDoS attacks are the latest battle in a wider fight known as Operation Payback, which targets firms Anonymous sees as 'misusing the internet' ".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11957367
This is clearly people's implosion against the abuse, the deception, the corruption and the censorship of unconstitutional actions.
What do you think this is going to lead us?
What do you think it is going to happen?"The data war between companies that have refused to do business with Wikileaks... more
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In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a ‘cyberwar,’ hundreds of WikiLeaks’ Hackers mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange.
Within 12 hours of a British judge’s decision on Tuesday to deny Wikileaks’s founder bail in a Swedish extradition case, attacks on the Web sites of WikiLeaks’s ‘enemies,’ as defined by the organization’s impassioned supporters around the world, caused several corporate Web sites to become inaccessible or slow down markedly, reports The New York Times.
In what they called “Operation Payback”, the army of computer hackers targeted corporate websites including Mastercard webiste, which had stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which revoked the use of its computer servers; and PayPal, which stopped accepting donations for Mr. Assange’s group.
Visa.com website was also affected by the hackers attacks, as were the Web sites of the Swedish prosecutor’s office and the lawyer representing the two women whose allegations of sexual misconduct are the basis of Sweden’s extradition bid.
The cyberattacks in Assange’s defense appear to have been coordinated by Anonymous – a loosely affiliated group of activist computer hackers, who have singled out other groups before, and thought to be 1,500 to 2,000-strong – flooded the websites of the credit card companies, with millions of bogus visits.
http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-revenge-attacks-target-mastercard-and-visa/In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a ‘cyberwar,’ hundreds... more
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