Hacktivism organizations Anonymous and Lulzsec have been prolific in the past week, hacking hundreds of websites in China. They continue to shine harsh lights on areas they perceive as being injustices to freedom worldwide. Their Chinese website hacks, first reported on March 30th, ask for Chinese citizens to join Anonymous and posted links on advice [...]
Telecommunications provider Nokia took down its developer community website after a hacker obtained database tables with user account information. Nokia conducted a thorough investigation, and have discovered that a database table which contains developer forum members’ e-mail addresses has been hacked into. Hackers exploited the vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL [...]
April 2, 2011: Anonymous, the online hactivist collective, begins Operation: Sony, a series of DoS (denial of service) attacks on Sony’s websites April 11, 2011: Sony announces the case between George Hotz and Sony has been settled out of court and that Hotz has agreed to take down his website. April 13, 2011: Anonymous releases [...]
