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Anonymous: “We will keep going until we stop being angry” The user group that organized this week’s attack against SGAE, the Spanish Culture Ministry and Promusicae have been organizing attacks on other sites for the last 20 days and have caused a total of 742 service interruptions to 11 sites and more than 550 hours [...]

The distributed denial of service attack is scheduled for midnight (CET) October 7 The attack aims to crash the organization’s website The 4chan user group is calling for free file-sharing across P2P networks Recent attacks targeted Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America  (MPAA), resulting in 17 server crashes [...]

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Apple’s popular service, with millions of users transmitting bank details on the platform every day, has become a target for hackers looking for confidential bank data The email is a fake iTunes receipt corresponding to a purchase the user hasn’t made. Users that click the link in the message will be asked to download a [...]

Q&A with leaders of “Anonymous” group responsible for the attacks on the Motion Picture Association of America and others available on the PandaLabs blog PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, which first broke the news of organized cyber protests against the Motion Picture Association of America and other copyright-focused organizations last week, has published an exclusive [...]

- The malware distribution techniques in the spotlight this quarter include clickjacking, BlackHat SEO and 0-day attacks – 95% of all email in circulation was spam, and 55% of global spam originated from just 10 countries – Android smart phones are being targeted by hackers, thanks to their widespread popularity – You can download the [...]

The worm exploits a vulnerability in Twitter, already patched, when used directly through the Web to propagate and provoke a series of unusual events User mouseovers on the URL could redirect to third-party pages, generate strange messages or blackouts, giant letters, etc. As many as 1,000 infections every 10 seconds had been recorded The attack [...]

In response to the attempt to shut down free file-sharing sites, such as The Pirate Bay, 4chan users have organized to launch denial of service attacks against several targets. The attack, joined by thousands of anonymous users of the website, resulted in 37 service interruptions More cyber-protests are planned. The latest target is the British [...]