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The mysterious hackers group Anonymous, best known so far for their campaign against the Church of Scientology, has issued a stark warning to the Westboro Baptist Church. We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have …

Clip description: This is the Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen DRE voting machine. In 2008, it was used in jurisdictions with almost 9 million voters. Alex Halderman and Ari Feldman replaced the voting software with Pac-Man. They did this in three afternoons, without breaking any tamper-evident seals. It would be easy to modify the software to steal votes, but that’s been …

JMG reader Russ tips us that it appears that homocon site Gay Patriot has been hacked today. The top post on the quite discombobulated site now features a message in Russian and a link to an Eastern European straight porn site. (No link as I’m getting a virus warning there.) A fresh wave of hack attacks on LGBT sites began …

Here’s why all those hot concerts sell out instantaneously, even if you’re hovering over your keyboard at the moment they go on sale. Four guys in California hacked the CAPTCHA programs of numerous tickets sellers and used over 100,000 fake email addresses to harvest all the best seats. They’ve been busted and charged with fraudulently obtaining more than a million …

Angry over the use of Twitter to spread dissent, last night pro-government hackers in Iran brought the service down. Those who tried to access Twitter were redirected to a site that had a green flag and proclaimed “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army.” The Web site was down for nearly an hour. Representatives from Twitter could not …

You’re probably actually being productive at work today, as Twitter is down in a hacker attack. Twitter co founder Biz Stone: “We are currently defending against a Denial of Service attack on this otherwise happy Thursday morning. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and …

A number of popular gay sites were taken down today in DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks originating in eastern Europe. Among the affected sites is Gays.com, which says the attacks are being coordinated to thwart Sunday’s International Day Against Homophobia: Said Kenneth Tan, spokesperson for Gays.com, “It is by no means a coincidence that this DDoS attack on Gays.com …

UPDATE: The Bilerico Project is back up! One of the nation’s top LGBT activism sites, The Bilerico Project, is under a continuing “denial of service” hack attack and is currently offline. Site founder Bil Browning: I wanted to give folks a quick heads up on what’s happened to the Bilerico Project and our affiliated sites. All of our sites are …

Gothamist is wondering who’s hacking NYC’s traffic signs.

Someone claiming to be from the Asta La Vista hacking group has taken down Pam House’s Blend and several other liberal blogs. Via Pam: “I just found out Soapblox.net, the service that hosts many of the state blogs, has been hacked. Pam’s House Blend, RadicalRuss.net, American Liberalism, BeThink.org are some of the sites affected. I haven’t gone down the whole …

Last night’s cyber-attack on No On 8’s site is continuing. The denial-of-service (DoS) attack on NoOnProp8.com that started last night continues. When you attempt to go to the URL, it either will time out or, perhaps, eventually load after a long delay. How does this happen? In one common DoS scenario, it would be this: Botnets of infected Windows computers …

The No On 8 and Say No 2 sites were the apparent victims of a cyber attack last night. Via press release: Today the NO on Prop 8 campaign’s Web site was the victim of what appears to be a coordinated attack designed to bring the system down. According to http://www.responsetrack.net/lnk/calitics/1855212/?14LGF0093D5/ , the denial-of-service attack (DoS) on the NO on …

WingNutDaily is claiming that pro-gay hackers have repeatedly crashed the site of Capitol Resource Family Impact, which is working to reverse California’s anti-bullying law, SB777. Staff members for a prominent pro-family organization that has been key to the battle against California’s mandated homosexual indoctrination programs for public schools are working off-site while an investigation is conducted into threats that someone …