The Pirate Bay’s DDoS problems seem to be over and done — for now, and an “anti-anonymous” hacker has stepped forward to take the credit (or is it blame?) for taking the torrent website offline.
It’s fair to say that The Pirate Bay isn’t the favourite destination of many in Hollywood — at least not at least as far as they’ll admit. But it’s been only available at a spotty rate over the past day, apparently due to a DDoS attack.
Anonymous has been meek and quiet since the great Sabu treachery, failing to even threaten much of anything. But in a new interview, one of the group’s last remaining leaders says Anon has a nuclear card up its sleeve.
In a move sure to attract attention from the music industry, a small group of coders claiming to be part of Anonymous is putting together a social music platform. The rather ambitious goal: Create a service that seamlessly pulls up songs streaming from all around the internet.
Pastebin is often the hacker’s tool of choice for posting exploits and information gleaned from them. But it does filter some content, and the site owner occasionally complies with law enforcement requests. So, Anonymous created its own version, called AnonPaste.
Last week, Higinio O. Ochoa III was charged by the FBI with hacking into US law enforcement agencies and releasing phone numbers and home addresses of police officers. You’re looking at the evidence the FBI used to nail him.
US carrier Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and you can probably guess what it says: 2011 was a banner year for hackers and represented a huge statistical comeback. They compromised a total of 174 million records, 100 million of those in activism/for-the-lulz ops by Anon, Lulzsec, and friends.
Yesterday, we learned Anonymous put out their very own hackeriffic OS — a tricked out version of Linux filled with tools for mischief. Oops! It’s filled with trojans instead. Get used to more of this.
