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The Pirate Bay gives thumbs-down on Anonymous DDoS attack on Virgin Media

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File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has denounced an Anonymous DDoS campaign that took down Virgin Media, calling it an "ugly" method that's no better than the UK court order for ISPs to block users from getting to The Pirate Bay.

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Opinion: Why we need Anonymous 2.0

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A few thoughts on the "hacktivist" group Anonymous that came out of Josh Corman and Brian "Jericho" Martin's keynote at the SOURCE security conference in Boston last week.

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Formula 1 website attacked by Anonymous, brought down by DDoS

Formula 1 website attacked by Anonymous, brought down by DDoS

Anonymous hacktivists blasted the Formula 1 website off the net, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office websites with DDoS assault

Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office websites with DDoS assault

Anonymous hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the British government's Home Office website, preventing legitimate users from visiting the site by flooding it with unwanted internet traffic.

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LulzSec suspect Ryan Cleary sent back to jail - for contacting Sabu

LulzSec suspect Ryan Cleary sent back to jail - for contacting Sabu

Ryan Cleary breached his bail agreement by using the internet..

.. to contact LulzSec leader Sabu (who just happened to be secretly working for the FBI).

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Gumming up the internet: When DNS servers attack..

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Operation Blackout's plan to shut down the internet this weekend may have come to nothing, but there is a way in which DNS servers can be used as part of a malicious attack.

Professor Alan Woodward explains more.

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Trayvon Martin, Anonymous, and the problem with vigilantism

Trayvon Martin, Anonymous and the problem with vigilantism

Mrs. W guest blogs: A look at vigilantism by hacktivist collectives like Anonymous in light of the Trayvon Martin shooting, and why it's distracting and ineffectual.

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Anonymous OS - you'd be crazy to trust it

Anonymous OS - you'd be crazy to trust it

Proceed with caution if you're thinking of downloading and installing Anonymous OS, the purported new operating system from the Anonymous collective.

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The problem with Anonymous.. it doesn't know who it is

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If your movement has no defined leadership, no structure, no way for people to officially become members.. how can it define what's done in the name of the movement and what isn't?

Anonymity can have its drawbacks.

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Anonymous hacker confesses to stealing abortion database records

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A hacker linked with the Anonymous movement has admitted to breaking into the website of Britain's biggest abortion service, and stealing the records of approximately 10,000 people.

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Suspected Anonymous hacker arrested after abortion website attack

Suspected Anonymous hacker arrested after abortion website attack

Police have arrested a 27-year-old man, suspected of defacing and hacking into the website of Britain's largest single abortion provider.

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How Anonymous spied on FBI / UK Police hacking investigation conference call

How Anonymous spied on FBI / UK Police hacking investigation conference call

How careful are you with your conference call details?

Can you be sure that no-one is listening in to your private business discussions?

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Panda Security cleans up defaced websites after LulzSec arrest revenge attack

Panda Security cleans up defaced websites after LulzSec arrest revenge attack

An anti-virus firm blogs about LulzSec and Sabu, and finds its webpages defaced by a vengeful Anonymous.

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Sabu's sordid story detailed in FBI indictment

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Hector Xavier Monsegur may have portrayed the exploits of Anonymous and LulzSec as a glamorous fight against "the man", but the dark criminal realities of their exploits were exposed in his indictment. It appears he wasn't just in it for the lulz.

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LulzSec 'leader' Sabu betrayed Anonymous hackers, reports claim

LulzSec leader betrayed Anonymous hackers, reports claim

Infamous hacker Sabu is said to have betrayed his comrades in LulzSec and Anonymous, and have been working for the FBI for months.

Hector Xavier Monsegur has pleaded guilty to internet attacks, as others arrested on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Symantec and Anonymous fall out over Trojanised hack-tool download

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Did cybercrooks Trojanise a DDoS tool to take advantage of gullible supporters of Anonymous? Or is that just a wrong and libellous suggestion?

What do you expect when you download unknown software from an untrusted source on the say-so of an unidentified user?

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Police arrest four suspected Anonymous hacktivists

Police arrest four suspected Anonymous hacktivists

Police say that they have arrested four people, in connection with a series of Anonymous internet attacks against Spanish websites.

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350,000 users exposed by hardcore porn hack

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A hacker claims to have stolen information from 350,000 users of Brazzers, a hardcore production company based in North America, to highlight a security vulnerability.

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CIA website brought down - were Anonymous attackers responsible?

CIA website brought down - were Anonymous attackers responsible?

The CIA's website was brought down for some hours last night by what appears to have been an internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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VIDEO: Boston Police hits back at Anonymous with sarcasm

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Anonymous is proud of saying that an idea can't be arrested or killed, but it seems like the Boston Police Department has thought of one way of fighting back: sarcasm.

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