Tag Archives: hacking

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist

Anonymous has hacked the Facebook page of Westboro Baptist Church and replaced most of the posts with photos of cats and pro-gay graphics. (Tipped by JMG reader Birdie) UPDATE: Some suspect that the hacking is just a parody page, but WBC’s main website appears to be down also at the moment, so who knows?

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HACKED: Burger King’s Twitter Account

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Hackers Cause Malware Warning

If you accessed JMG via Chrome today, you likely got a malware warning. Here’s the story: Internet advertising network NetSeer suffered a hack to its front-end Web site today that rippled across the Web sites of its advertising partners. The alerts warned visitors who were using the Chrome browser that the Web site they were visiting was a “known malware …

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Anonymous Vs Westboro

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Anonymous Threatens Uganda’s Pols

Anonymous has issued a threat against Uganda’s leaders should their “Kill The Gays” bill pass. Earlier this week Ugandan clergy demanded the bill’s passage as a “Christmas gift to Christians.” The so-called ‘hacktivists’ from Anonymous New Jersey sent a stark warning to lawmakers, urging them not rubber stamp the draconian legislation which would mean gay Ugandans could face life imprisonment …

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BELIZE: Anti-Virus Software Kingpin John McAfee Sought For Murder

John McAfee, the man who founded the company whose anti-virus software resides on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide, is being sought for murder by police in Belize.  Gizmodo reports: According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force’s Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, who was gunned down …

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Go Daddy Allegedly Hacked By Anonymous, Millions Of Sites Go Down

If you can’t open your favorite site today, this may be why. A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless websites and services around the world, although not for everyone. Godaddy.com is down, but so are some of the …

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Fox Challenged For FCC Licenses

Citing News Corp’s ongoing involvement in a hacking scandal, a public policy watchdog group has filed an FCC challenge against the renewing of broadcasting licenses for three Fox stations in the Washington DC area. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a petition to deny Fox’s applications to renew licenses for three of its TV stations – WTTG-TV and …

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Anonymous Hacks Ugandan Government: Your Treatment Of Gays Is Disgusting

Two websites of the Ugandan government were hacked yesterday by Anonymous. One of the messages read: “Today’s hack and deface of the Ugandan Prime Minister’s site was the latest in a long list of actions against the government and infrastructure of Uganda for crimes against LGBT people. “We will not stand by while LGBT Ugandans are victimized, abused and murdered …

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Religion Is A Virus

Almost literally. The AFP Newswire is reporting that according to Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Report, those cruising the Internet are more likely to catch a computer virus when visiting sites dedicated to religious issues than are those that visit porn sites. Also notably, the newswire says that viruses users get from such sites are embedded there by hackers, not …

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HACKED: Brian Brown’s Twitter Account

Here we go again. This time the hack seems limited to Brian Brown’s Twitter account. NOM’s blog and Facebook are unaffected at this writing. UPDATE: It appears this post has been noticed.

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Mutiny On K Street!

And the hack continues!

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Possibly Not From Brian Brownshirt…

UPDATE: It’s all a SPECTACULAR hack. NOM’s entire blog is suddenly “down for maintenance.” ::Mutley laugh:: If this really is a hack of NOM’s social media, it has now expanded from Twitter and Facebook to their own website. Friends of marriage, In the last couple of weeks you’ve heard some pretty bad things about this organization. I must admit that …

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Hackers Hit NYC Cabs

Bad news for lots of people: Global Payments—a massive international credit-card processor—has confirmed that it suffered a massive security breach. Hackers managed to acquire customer information from up to 1.5 million accounts across North America. As far as we know, every major credit card provider is affected. Worse news for New Yorkers: In this case, it seems those most at …

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HomoQuotable – John Waters

“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom …

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Hackers Hit Komen Site

Details.

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TODAY: Internet Blackout

As you’ve no doubt noticed by now, many major websites have gone dark today in protest of a proposed bill which would hold social media, search engine, and other sites financially responsible for piracy committed by users. Google is taking part by blocking its logo and offering a link to information about the bill.

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Anonymous: Occupy Iowa’s Caucus

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Anonymous To Wall Street: We Will Take Down Stock Exchange On October 10th

PC Magazine: The threat to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet was not explained, though in comments on the YouTube video, some speculated that Anonymous was planning a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on the public-facing NYSE.com website, similar to DDoS attacks the group has used to take down websites in the past. Others felt that would only be a minor …

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BREAKING: Protestor Attempts To Hit Rupert Murdoch With A Pie

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