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Is Anonymous still a “hacktivist” collective?

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Oct

2011

Members of the Internet collective known as “Anonymous” are often described as hacktivists. But are they really? Or are they really just activists (is that what they’ve become)? We follow various Anonymous news accounts on Twitter and ever since the sub-collective, LulzSec, petered out, Anonymous has shifted away from talking about online attacks and hacks […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

26

Aug

2011

RSA was hacked in March. This was one of the biggest hacks in history. The current theory is that a nation-state wanted to break in to Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman to steal military secrets. They couldn’t do it, since these companies were using RSA SecurID tokens for network authentication. So, the hackers broke into RSA with […]

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