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Hackers deface Libya’s top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

Aug

2011

With heavy fighting reaching the compound of Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi’s compound, hackers have also taken virtual arms overnight and defaced the website of domain name registry nic.ly. Hackers calling themselves “Electr0n” have defaced the nic.ly website, the main registry which administers .ly domain names (the “.ly” stands for “Libya”) and replaced it with a […]

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Anonymous Ops Britian and BART

Aug

2011

Here’s a new maxim for politicians, policy makers and public administrators: curtail, censor or otherwise limit communications technology in the real-world – expect online reprisals.Hacker collective Anonymous released a “press release” on Saturday announcing OpBritian, a reaction to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s suggestions that social media should be restricted in a time of crisis.And […]

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Anonymous hacks BART, creating even more innocent victims

Aug

2011

Anonymous continued their crusade against governments and organizations this weekend, attacking the myBART.org website belonging to San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system. They performed a SQL injection (SQLi) attack against the site and were able to extract more than 2,000 records containing names, usernames, passwords (plain text), emails, phone numbers, addresses and zip […]

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