10 Years Later, What Did LulzSec Mean for Cybersecurity?

While working on several articles on the WannaCry attacks for my job as a cybersecurity journalist, I learned about LulzSec, which ranked among the most notable attacks of the 2010s. I wanted to find out more about the group that committed major cybersecurity attacks on many household-name companies over a chaotic 50 days in 2011. […]

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After Assange indictment, DDoSecrets publishes old WikiLeaks chats, strategy sessions

Every anti-secrecy group operates in the long shadow of WikiLeaks. But that doesn’t mean WikiLeaks is off limits. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a semi-anonymous group of transparency activists, on Tuesday released the AssangeLeaks. It’s a collection of files that DDoSecrets says is meant to “illustrate how WikiLeaks operates behind closed doors” at a time when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing criminal charges in the U.S. in connection with a series of disclosures that contained information stolen from the U.S. military and other sources. DDoSecrets on June 19 published an unrelated database called #BlueLeaks, a collection of files including police training materials, police safety guidelines, covert data collection techniques and protest containment strategies. Upon that release, scholars who have followed the past generation of information activism, in which groups like Anonymous and WikiLeaks publish hacked information, suggested that DDoSecrets had emerged as a leading group of digital demonstrators. Tuesday, DDoSecrets went […]

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US indicts WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for hiring Anonymous & LulzSec

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The US’s list of accusations against Julian Assange doesn’t seem like ending anytime soon.
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Cyberwar Season 1 – Episode 1 Recap: Who is Anonymous?

The first episode looked into the decentralized group of international activist hackers known as “Anonymous” which has been linked to numerous high-profile incidents over the years, including Internet attacks on governments, major corporations, financi… Continue reading Cyberwar Season 1 – Episode 1 Recap: Who is Anonymous?

The Dark Arts – Remote File Inclusion

In the waning hours of 2010, a hacking group known as Lulzsec ran rampant across the Internet, leaving a path of compromised servers, a trail of defaced home pages, leaked emails, and login information in their wake. They were eventually busted via human error, and the leader of the group becoming an FBI informant. This handful of relatively young hackers had made a huge mess of things. After the digital dust had settled – researches, journalists, and coders began to dissect just how these seemingly harmless group of kids were able to harness so much power and control over the …read more

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DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a European Internet service provider in order to glean information about attackers who were targeting BackConnect. According to an exhaustive analysis of historic Internet records, the BackConnect appears to have a history of such “hacking back” activity. Continue reading DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks

Anonymous Hack Italian Job Portals, Leak Trove of Data Against New Labour Laws

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Anonymous has leaked personal details of CEOs, managers and other
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