Neowin News Feed for: Anonymous

CISPA is dead, again

Ben Buffone — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:53:32 +0100

Controversial internet security bill CISPA will most likely be scrapped, a U.S. committee representative has stated. Whilst it may be dead for now, will a new compromised version see the light of day? Read more...

Microsoft debunks rumors of hackers causing Xbox Live outage

John Callaham — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:34:48 +0100

Microsoft said Saturday's lengthy outage of the Xbox 360's Xbox Live service was due to a "networking misconfiguration" and denied that a hacker group was in fact to blame. Read more...

Indicted Anonymous ally: I was really an "undercover" reporter

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:07:16 +0000

The lawyer for the Reuters employee who was indicted this week for helping the hacker group Anonymous now says his client was actually an "undercover" journalist trying to learn about the group. Read more...

Reuters employee indicted in Anonymous hacking case

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:31:59 +0000

The US Justice Department indicted Reuters employee Matthew Keys on three counts on Thursday, claiming Keys gave the hacker group Anonymous passwords from the Tribune Company when he worked there. Read more...

Anonymous defaces US Sentencing Commission website

John Callaham — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:00:54 +0000

The hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility for defacing the website of the US Sentencing Commission and threatened to release what they claim are secret Department of Justice files. Read more...

Anonymous hacks MIT website, leaves a tribute to Aaron Swartz

Andy Weir — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:36:20 +0000

'Hacktivist' group Anonymous has hacked the MIT site, leaving a very personal tribute to Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide this week, and calling for action to honour his memory. Read more...

Chinese law for real-name internet registration passed

Paul Ferson — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:58:01 +0000

Chinese laws forcing real-name registration to use the internet have been passed, with further revisions likely to come. The legislation could allow removal of "illegal" posts within the country. Read more...

Twitter suspends YourAnonNews account [Update: It's back]

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:03:02 +0000

Twitter has now decided to suspend the popular YourAnonNews account that has been used by members of the Anonymous hacker group in the past to post their various announcements. Read more...

Three Anonymous members plead guilty over PayPal attack

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:33:22 +0000

Hackers identifying themselves as part of the Anonymous collective have admitted their guilt in an attack against PayPal, which the company alleges lost them £3.5 million during 2010. Read more...

Skype gives 16 year old's private info to security firm

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:41:34 +0000

Skype has dropped the ball on user privacy when it gave a Dutch 16-year old's personal information to a private security company without any legal obligation to do so. Read more...

NBC.com website hacked ahead of Guy Fawkes Day

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:13:13 +0000

Parts of the NBC.com website got hit by a cyber attack today, with the hackers defacing some of the pages with messages that related to November 5th's Guy Fawkes Day. Read more...

Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.13

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:01:44 +0000

Portable client for the OR network and is intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. Some of the improvements include UNICODE paths, support for HTTP Read more...

'Whonix' appears in the wild, makes your IP harder to find

Paul Ferson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:36:40 +0000

With Linux and its open source nature people have been able to create unique projects, and the wittily named 'Whonix' is no exception. Combining security tools it brings several layers of IP security. Read more...

Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.12a

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:01:54 +0100

Anonymous breaks up with WikiLeaks over paywall

Tyler Holman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:42:01 +0100

Former BFFs Anonymous and WikiLeaks are breaking up over an election themed paywall, and Anonymous says they'll no longer support WikiLeaks or Julian Assange because of their 'filthy and rotten' ways. Read more...

Lulzsec member who hacked Sony Pictures pleads guilty

Tyler Holman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:37:12 +0100

Neuron, a member of Lulzsec, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking into Sony Pictures' website and making off with private information on thousands of people. Read more...

Facebook: “There has not been a hack of Facebook”

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:58:16 +0100

A service outage in parts of Europe has prompted one Anonymous member to say that he was behind the outage, claiming to have hacked the site via a vulnerability called cross-site request forgery. Read more...

GoDaddy.com says Monday's outage was not due to hackers

John Callaham — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:05:12 +0100

GoDaddy.com says that Monday's outage of its website, and millions of others that use its domain name service, was due to internal network issues and not the result of a cyber attack. Read more...

Anonymous hacker releases information on GlobalCerts employees

Paul Ferson — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:41:45 +0100

A hacker claiming to be working for Anonymous and AntiSec has attacked GlobalCerts.com, dumping information on employees onto the internet. The hacker also provides their 'justification'. Read more...

Hacker 'AnonymouSabu' gains an additional six months of freedom

Paul Ferson — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:09:26 +0100

Notorious hacker 'AnonymouSabu' has gained an additional six months of freedom before his sentencing trial begins, due to his willingness to cooperate with the government he previously fought against. Read more...