Intelligence officials seem to be polishing up their case to take on Anonymous like a 'stateless' terrorist group.The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, told various high-level …
Hacker group Anonymous strongly rejected suggestions on Tuesday that followers could cause a power outage by staging a cyberattack on an electricity grid.
The United States government and hacktivist collective Anonymous aren’t what you would call “friends.” After Anonymous’ ongoing barrage of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on various .gov websites, the National Security Agency is reportedly concerned that the hackers may soon upgrade their attacks to full-blow assaults on key US infrastructure, like the electrical system.
Anonymous, the loosely affiliated group of “hacktivists,” have had a wide array of targets: The Boston and Oakland Police Departments, the FBI, Scotland Yard and the Greek government, just to name a few. Targets are selected because of a perceived injustice: police brutality, Internet censorship or the rich oppressing the poor.
Several websites belonging to the Federal Trade Commission were allegedly knocked offline on Friday by cyber activist group Anonymous.
Notorious hacker group says it will release more personal data on the minister if he doesn’t scrap controversial legislation
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