Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/05/anon_nov5_protests/
Anonymous was back in the news on the 5th. They have reportedly attacked Paypal, ImageShack, and Symantec. The attack was part of a global day of protest, paying tribute to Guy Fawkes Night. John Leyden reveals that Anonymous has boasted it leaked 28,000 passwords, emails, and names of customers from Paypal. Named on their twitter feed as #OpNov5, The AnonymousPress twitter feed tweeted out the details of various attacks that took place and some that were allegedly planned by various factions of the hacktavist group. Symantec may have had "email addresses and other personal data from hundreds of security researchers" leaked. A couple of the big attacks today were carried out by exploiting zero-day bugs.
In addition to the data theft attacks, "several NBC websites were defaced with the message "Remember, remember the fifth of November" (extracts from a nursery rhyme about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot to blow up the UK Parliament in 1605). These less political attacks seem to be deepening the rift between various groups within anonymous. Personally, they don't seem to serve any purpose outside of showing that the sites can be hacked.
Anonymous was back in the news on the 5th. They have reportedly attacked Paypal, ImageShack, and Symantec. The attack was part of a global day of protest, paying tribute to Guy Fawkes Night. John Leyden reveals that Anonymous has boasted it leaked 28,000 passwords, emails, and names of customers from Paypal. Named on their twitter feed as #OpNov5, The AnonymousPress twitter feed tweeted out the details of various attacks that took place and some that were allegedly planned by various factions of the hacktavist group. Symantec may have had "email addresses and other personal data from hundreds of security researchers" leaked. A couple of the big attacks today were carried out by exploiting zero-day bugs.
In addition to the data theft attacks, "several NBC websites were defaced with the message "Remember, remember the fifth of November" (extracts from a nursery rhyme about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot to blow up the UK Parliament in 1605). These less political attacks seem to be deepening the rift between various groups within anonymous. Personally, they don't seem to serve any purpose outside of showing that the sites can be hacked.
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