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Banking sites crippled by Iran-sponsored DDoS, US officials claim
- Iran is being blamed for a recent wave of cyberattacks, namely a series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks launched against major financial institutions. Affected financial institutions include, but may not be limited to, Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo,…
Anonymous member convicted for DDoS against PayPal, others
- A jury has convicted 22-year old Anonymous hacktivist Christopher Weatherhead for playing a lead role in organizing a series of distributed denial of service attacks against PayPal (and others) in 2010. Weatherhead's cohorts, Peter Gibson, Jake Bichall and Ashley Rhodes,…
Vulgar post lands on prominent blogs, Tumblr patches vulnerability
- Tumblr says it has addressed a vulnerability which allowed hackers to force visitors into unwittingly reposting an offensive, expletive-ridden message condemning the "tasteless" and "bourgeoisie" blog site. More than 8,600 users were affected -- Cnet, USA Today and The Verge were…
"Anonymous OS Live" released, hacker group denies affiliation
- In a bizarre and unexpected move, Anonymous has supposedly released its own Ubuntu-based operating system on Sourceforge, titled Anonymous OS Live. According to the description, it uses Ubuntu 11.10 with MATE desktop and features various hacking related packages for testing…
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