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Anonymous Takes Down NAMBLA’s Page To Protest Paedophilia Pride Day

As you may be hopefully unaware, today is Alice Day, a day inspired by Lewis Carroll’s debated sexual attraction to Alice Liddell, Alice In Wonderland’s very underage and very real counterpart, where proud paedophiles come together in celebration of their disorder. So it’s a beautiful day for a NAMBLA takedown. And Anonymous was happy to answer the call.


NSW Court: Alleged Teenage Anon. Member Faces 20 Hacking Charges

On Friday, the Australian Federal Police levelled 20 counts of hacking-related crimes at a 17-year-old from NSW, who the organisation believes is connected to online activist group Anonymous. Few details have been released on the teenager’s activities, but whatever he or she got up to, it translates into an impressive list of charges.


North Korea’s Twitter And Flickr Accounts Have Been Hacked

A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea’s official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists.


Reuters Employee Exposed As Alleged Anonymous Agent

Matthew Keys, one of Reuters News’ top social media managers, is facing serious prison time after federal accusations that he is a member of Anonymous. According to the US Department of Justice, Keys tried to help the hackers deface Tribune Company newspaper sites.


Turns Out Anonymous Didn’t Breach The Real ABC

Yesterday we brought you the story that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation had been breached by a member of Anonymous for airing a controversial interview on Lateline that, the hacker claimed, spread an anti-Islamic message. After forum usernames and other details were leaked online yesterday, the ABC has since conducted an investigation and found that no official ABC property was actually hacked. So where did the information come from?


Anonymous Leaks The Account Data Of 4000 Bank Executives

After hacking up government websites last week and the week before, Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push its agenda of reforming computer crime law. This time, it has leaked the names and addresses of over 4000 bank executives. And they did it all on a government site.


New Anonymous Hack Lets You Shoot Up Sites With Nyan Cat Spaceship

In the wake of Aaron Swartz’s suicide, your friendly neighbourhood cyber-vigilantes Anonymous have been lashing out. It’s mostly been DDOSes and cyber-vandalism, but its most recent project is a bit more fun and lets you play Asteroids with a Nyan Cat spaceship that blasts up sites.


Anonymous Attacks Department Of Justice Website Over Aaron Swartz’s Suicide

Since Aaron Swartz’s suicide two weeks ago — an incident largely blamed on the charges being levied against him — the ‘net has been grieving. And Anonymous has been doing that in its own special way: tearing stuff up.


Google Australia Ordered To Reveal Blogger Identities

It’s a simple fact of the internet that people are mean, but what happens when the meanies of the internet cross over into defamation territory? That’s the subject of a court case between Google Australia and 7-Eleven executive and former sportsman Shane Radbone where the former has just been ordered to reveal the identity of anonymous bloggers.


Anonymous Hacks MIT In Aaron Swartz’s Name

The Internet is dealing with the suicide of gifted programmer and activist Aaron Swartz in a variety of ways — but Anonymous is responding with what it does best. Two of MIT’s sites have been hacked into memorials.


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