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• Hacktivism: The fallout from Anonymous and LulzSec Part 2

  Part two of <i>Computerworld Australia's</i> look at hacktivism and its consequences.

• Hacktivism: The fallout from Anonymous and LulzSec Part 1

  Like the mutant offspring of Captain Jack Sparrow and French anarchist Pierre Proudhon — famous for his ‘property is theft’ claim — activist hacking group LulzSec surfed the Web spreading debonair charm, chaos and reckless acts of ‘hacktivism’ in equal measure.

• Anonymous supporters claim NBC News Twitter hack

  Hackers calling themselves the Script Kiddies took control of the NBC News Twitter account on Friday afternoon and used it to send out a series of hoax Twitter messages claiming there was a repeat terrorist attack on New York's Ground Zero.

• Opinion: Breadth First Hacking

  Recent publicity for online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec has seemed to show that nobody is immune from attack on the Internet. Once targeted, it seems that these groups are capable of breaching security systems and retrieving data, including identity information, from the most secure systems.

• Anonymous leaks 7,000 cops' emails and passwords

  Anonymous on Sunday leaked the personal details of 7,000 police officers taken from the Missouri online training database, explaining via a You Tube video that it was retribution for recent raids.

• Guardian tech editor leaking information, claims LulzSec

  High-profile hacker group LulzSec is claiming that the technology editor of UK newspaper The Guardian has been leaking information to them.

• Anonymous claims hack of Texas police website

  Anonymous has attacked the website of the <a href="http://www.texaspolicechiefs.org/">Texas Police Chiefs Association</a>, in retaliation for the arrests of alleged members of the hacker group.

• Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway

  San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matter because they were locked out of the railway system altogether.

• AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites

  The war between law enforcement and the Anonymous hacking collective continued this weekend as hackers dumped a 10 gigabyte database that included private e-mails and information sent by confidential informants. Hackers say they stole information during an attack on more than 70 small-town law enforcement agencies.

• Three tips for a better Anonymous

  Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis?

• Anonymous urges PayPal users to close accounts

  Anonymous has issued a protest campaign on Twitter aimed at PayPal users where it has urged account holders to close their accounts following the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrest of US Anonymous Operations members for allegedly [[artnid:394256|targeting PayPal with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack|new]] last year.
  

• Anonymous releases restricted NATO document

  The hacking collective Anonymous released a document on Thursday marked "restricted" from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

• Anonymous eyes political role, but won't go legit

  Hacker group Anonymous plans to promote an affiliated political party to attract people who share its civil liberties goals, but do not agree with its methods.

• Anonymous attacks Turkish websites again

  Hacker group Anonymous said late Wednesday that its Antisec movement hacked and defaced Turkish government websites, in protest against new Internet filtering rules that come into force in the country in August.

• Anonymous launches Operation Turkey

  Hacktivist group Anonymous appears to have taken ownership of the Turkish domain of International Center for Human Development as part of its latest protest action, Operation Turkey.