Alleged phone call between FBI agents and authorities at Scotland Yard has been leaked and promoted by Anonymous hackers on Friday.
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Obvious question: If white hats are the good guys, why are they picking locks?
“The people who are at this conference are here for the sake of the hack itself,” Javadi said. “What is your data protected with? A lock. People who have the mind-set of finding creative solutions to complicated problems are drawn to the electrical side and the physical side of the problem.”
His group teaches hackers two metaphorically important rules: Don’t pick locks you don’t own, and don’t pick locks in use.
Michael Shea, who works for a software company in California, had picked several locks by lunchtime. He offered this bit of poetry about picking locks and the relationship to hacking: “It’s a Rubik’s Cube for the colorblind.” Beautiful, Mr. Shea.
”Fox News Blames Hackers for Phony Tweets about Obama
Fox News apologized early Monday for a series of phony tweets about President Obama. The network said its Twitter account had been hacked.
“Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets…
“For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could,” the group said in a message uploaded to The Pirate Bay file sharing website. “It is time to say bon voyage,” the message concluded. “We must now sail into the distance.”
“Rather than engaging in that spirit, this is an attempt to chill independent journalism.”
“For the most part, the mainstream media remains befuddled by Anonymous, not knowing quite what to make of the group’s mélange of illegal activity, political motivations and sardonic sense of humor. Moreover, as the group does not visibly toil on any ideological coalface, media outlets have been tempted to portray Anonymous as a group of lonesome hackers with nebulous but shadowy intent. Mass rallies — like the ones in Wisconsin — make for an easy, linear media narrative. But electronic subterfuge and virtual activism are often depicted as a bloodless sport — the least compelling kind.
But now, things are getting bloody — especially in the United States where Anonymous has gained considerable clout.”
Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq's Computers - WSJ.com
WSJ is really on fire this weekend.
Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
The exchange’s trading platform—the part of the system that executes trades—wasn’t compromised, these people said. However, it couldn’t be determined which other parts of Nasdaq’s computer network were accessed.
Investigators are considering a range of possible motives, including unlawful financial gain, theft of trade secrets and a national-security threat designed to damage the exchange.
Inside the Teen Hacker War Between Tumblr and 4Chan - The Atlantic Wire
This weekend, one of the most disruptive hacker hiveminds on the Internet, 4Chan.org, was briefly humbled by users of the blogging platform Tumblr. For those who aren’t familiar, 4Chan is an anonymous message board site famous for creating Internet memes (e.g. The Rickroll,Lolcats) and waging effective hacker attacks on the Church of Scientology and Gene Simmons. Tumblr, on the other hand, is a relatively young platform for sharing images, videos and links across the Web.
The feud began with an orchestrated plot by 4Chan users to flood Tumblr’s blog network with violent and pornographic images while using software to overload its servers.
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