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Hacking Group Anonymous Claim They Were Responsible for Moscow Traffic Chaos!
Although I presume most of you probably know who Anonymous is, for those of you who don’t, they undoubtedly represent one of the biggest hacking organisations on the planet. While their actions mostly tend to generally err in the somewhat grey area of morality, when they do create an incident,…
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Hacking Group Anonymous Declares ‘Cyber Warfare’ on Russia
We at eTeknix are, first and foremost, a technology publication. We tend to avoid, whenever possible, giving our opinions on political issues unless they are directly relevant to what we know and love (PC hardware!). – It is, however, hard to ignore the fact that with the current situation between…
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Fresh NHS Cyber Attack Reveals Over a Million Patient Records Compromised
NHS Security Under Scrutiny Again! NHS security procedures have been under a lot of pressure in recent months and it appears that they have not learnt their lesson. Reports are suggesting that another major data breach has occurred which has compromised the personal data of 1.2 million NHS patients in the…
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Microsoft Patched NSA Hack on Global Banks Before it was Leaked
Microsoft has announced that the NSA Global Banking leak released earlier this week (which reportedly exposed flaws in Windows security) had been fixed before the leak had even been issued. The leak reportedly exposed flaws within Window security which allowed the NSA to monitor the Global Bank, which by proxy…
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Researchers Claim Anonymized Web History Not So Anonymous
Researchers from Standford and Princeton University have released a study showing that anonymized web behaviour can still be identified via social media profiles. Google and Facebook for example, are able to track users and know their identities due to users willingly giving them access but the researchers claim that a…
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Anonymous Leak Trumps “Private” Data
Donald Trump is listed as one of the favourites for winning the run for president this year and while some are behind him others are strongly against his actions. With violence erupting at his rally’s and his claims about “closing up the internet“, some are worried about the steps he…
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Hacker Releases 17.8GB of Data From Turkish Police Server
A hacker going by the online alias ROR[RG] has released a large amount of data that belonged to a Turkish National Police database and is thought to contain large amounts of sensitive private information. ROR[RG] is aligned with the Anonymous hacktivist group and has leaked the data that was supposedly stolen from Turkish…
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Nissan’s Main Websites Knocked Offline by Anonymous
Anonymous have struck once again, the target this time: car manufacturer Nissan. Two of Nissan’s main websites were affected by the attack, with their global and Japanese sites being suspended after a barrage of traffic was received by both sites. While both of those sites remain offline, both the US…
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Anonymous Claims They Are Responsible for Crippling Turkey
Anonymous has made recent news with taking part in and claiming hacks against several large groups, their latest campaign being targeted against ISIS (now more commonly known as ISIL or Daesh), with splinter groups even supporting the FBI with information. Now it would seem that they are not only directly…
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France Looks to Ban Tor and Public Wi-Fi
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, French police has submitted proposals to ban anonymous web browser Tor and block Wi-Fi networks in public places to President Francois Hollande (pictured), according to French newspaper Le Monde (via Business Insider). La Monde has acquired documents that show the French government…
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Anonymous Claims CloudFlare Protects Pro-ISIS Sites
Anonymous started a new offensive against ISIS following the terrible attacks on Paris and while we all like that part, it’s hard for me to take them serious in any way. They surely have a few talented people with skills and connections in their group, but for the most part, their…
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Anonymous’ “War” Against ISIS Isn’t Going Well
Following the attacks on Paris by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS), online activist collective Anonymous declared war on ISIS/IS/Daesh (for the fourth time in 18 months, by my count). However, Operation ISIS – which is targeting ISIS’ online presence on Twitter and Telegram – has so far been a bust,…
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Major ISIS Messaging Forum Taken Down by Anonymous
It seems that Anonymous’ recent pledge of action against ISIS on the online front was honored, as in the wake of the attacks on Paris, the infamous mask-wearing hacktivists have taken down ISIS’ main forum, one of the central hubs of communication used by the terrorist group. For a time…
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Anonymous Splinter Cell Supplies FBI With Hacked ISIS Information
Earlier today we could report that Anonymous offensive against the ISIS had taken down over 5000 twitter accounts among other things, something that seems insufficient and somewhat low for what the group usually does. Their recent campaign was only really started after the horrific attack on Paris, but part of…
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Anonymous to Start OpKKK
The internet is a place where lots can happen. People can have their details exposed, like those that were taken in the latest breaches at TalkTalk or they could have them misused in SWAT’ings. Some people believe though that this means that not only can the internet be misused, it can…
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