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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

And the hack continues!

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 …

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 …

“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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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.

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 …

(Tipped by JMG reader NYC Girl)

Infosec Island notes that Westboro Baptist Church’s dozens of websites remain offline more than one month after the initial attack by the famed hacker Jester. The sustained DoS attacks which began on February 21st represent a duration record for the hacktivist who is best known for his regular attacks on militant Jihadi websites as well as for an attack on …

JMG reader Thomas writes to observe that the websites of Westboro Baptist Church still appear to be offline more than three weeks after the live hacking done by Anonymous during a joint interview with Shirley Phelps.

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Westboro’s sites are down again at the moment, but the above is a screen shot captured earlier and sent to me by a purported member of 4chan. Embiggen the image or hit the above link to read the message claiming to be from Anonymous. UPDATE: On today’s David Pakman Show, a purported member of Anonymous and Westboro’s Shirley Phelps-Roper butt …