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Pro-Wikileaks Attacks More Slap in the Face than Kick in the Head

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa and MasterCard may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies’ financial operations. The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as “Operation Payback” by the activists mounting the attacks, were aimed at the home sites of the credit…

Military Gives External Media Devices Marching Orders

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the wake of Pentagon-based U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s leaks of thousands of files from SIPRNET — the Defense Department’s internal version of the Internet — to Wikileaks, all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces are ordering troops to stop using portable or removable media. Military personnel caught using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives or…

Cyberattacks Cripple Rights Groups as Culture Wars Move Online

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Human rights groups are increasingly getting shut down by distributed denial of service (DDoS) and other cyberattacks, according to a report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The center reported that 280 independent media and human rights websites were hit by 140 attacks between September 2009 and August 2010. Only high-profile attacks…

Freedom of Online Speech in a Post-Wikileaks World

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the wake of Cablegate, the massive release of sensitive documents released online by WikiLeaks and the subsequent DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks by pro- and anti-WikiLeaks factions on each others’ websites, a fact long-known to only a few cognoscenti became public — free speech online is very much endangered. Both sides claimed they…

Egyptian Government Executes Nationwide Internet Blockade

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As anti-government protesters take over the streets in Egypt, the country’s government has reportedly cut off most Internet and cellphone service. Cairo has labeled its crackdowns on the protests as a response to restore public order. However, critics say Egypt’s cutting of communications is an attack on free speech. “I do not see how shutting…

Anonymous on UK Arrests: This Means War

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

“Dear UK government,” the ominous letter begins. “It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS [Distributed Denial of Service] attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried out in our name in retaliation for those organizations’ actions…

Anonymous Swarms on Security Firm That Poked the Hive

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Anonymous, an amorphous group of cyberactivists, has set its sights on HBGary Federal, a company claiming to provide security expertise to the United States’ federal government. The group took down HBGary Federal‘s websites and posted a message denouncing the company online. Anonymous’ attack followed statements by Aaron Barr, HBGary Federal’s CEO, that the company had…

Chasing the Night Dragon in Big-Energy IT

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cybercrime has evolved into a professional activity, one example of which is a large-scale attack McAfee CTO George Kurtz has dubbed “Night Dragon” in a recent blog post. The activity is described as a series of largely unsophisticated cyberattacks targeting energy companies and going back as far as four years. The hackers appear to be…

Cloud Security Takes More Than Superficial Teamwork

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Teamwork is important. We all know this to be the case whenever we do anything in a group involving other people. But arbitrary — even directionless — teamwork doesn’t make success by itself, no matter what the motivational poster might tell you. There are different kinds of teamwork. Consider, for example, the difference between a…

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