Aaron Swartz suicide sparks Anonymous to hack US Government Sites
- Jan
- 27
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release “secrets” gathered from U.S. government websites. The website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, […]
read moreFormer Anonymous members jailed in U.K. for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks
- Jan
- 25
Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial and music industry organizations in 2010 by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.
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