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Outlaw Justice: When Hackers Retaliate Against Cyber Security
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI used to be a hacker. It was a long time ago, decades before the future World Wide Web was available. I operated anonymously (except to my clients who paid me for what I discovered). I tracked down people whose cars, pledged as security on automobile loans, had been targeted for repossession. I performed my "hacking" duties over the phone using codes and pretexts. I infiltrated semi-secure bureaucratic systems (unemployment claim offices, utility company billing desks etc.) to precisely extract the whereabouts of drivers who had borrowed money to buy automobiles and then skipped town without ...
WordPress DDoS Attack Adds to Growing Cyber Wars
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsPopular open source content management system WordPress was targeted by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack today, TechCrunch reports. It wasn't easy for TechCrunch to post that information, as TechCrunch runs on WordPress. (The site, and many other WordPress sites, are working again.) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in a statement that the attack affected all three of the company's datacenters. "This is the largest and most sustained attack we've seen in our six-year history," he said. "We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English ...
Bank of America Online Banking Down (Again); Twitter's Up in Arms
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOnce again, Bank of America's online banking site is down, and it's causing problems for customers who need to pay bills on the first of the month. BofA's website last crashed in January at another inconvenient time: the Friday before Martin Luther King Day, which for many people was the last payday before a long weekend. A bank spokesperson has said the outage was caused by routine weekend maintenance and denies any hack or attack on the site. That's nice, but it doesn't do much for customers who can't access their accounts. .bbpBox42689672614387710 ...
'Anonymous' Activists Hit Conservative Website Over Wisconsin Protests
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe shadowy activists who call themselves "Anonymous," and who made headlines last year for attacking websites opposed to WikiLeaks, have entered the Wisconsin budget fight fray. The group temporarily knocked out a site belonging to Americans For Prosperity, a political organization backed by David and Charles Koch. In a press release, "Anonymous" said Sunday's denial of service attack was to protest the billionaire brothers' support of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is seeking to end collective bargaining rights for state workers' unions. From the release: The Koch brothers have made ...
Westboro Baptist Church Taunts Anonymous, Gets Hacked [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL NewsStrange bedfellows indeed. A compelling live exchange between a representative of the Westboro Baptist Church and an anonymous spokesman for the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous resulted in a rather predictable outcome. In the middle of David Pakman's radio program, during which Westboro's Shirley Phelps-Roper repeatedly taunted Anonymous, the rogue group apparently launched an attack on the church's websites. Here's how the encounter went down: Reaction to Westboro's confrontational attitude toward Anonymous, which had previously claimed it would not attack the church out of a ...
'Anonymous' Calls It War After US, UK Police Go After Hackers
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsInternational law enforcement is on a mission, hacktivists say: They're out to pay back the anonymous hackers who were part of last year's "Operation Payback," most notably in support of WikiLeaks. Police arrested five young men in Britain on Thursday, and more than 40 search warrants were executed by the FBI. Police in France, Germany and the Netherlands are also part of the effort. The targets are those who go by the name of "Anonymous," a loosely organized band of international hackers best known for briefly shutting down some big corporate websites late last year that had cut ties with ...
Meet Mark Salter, the Man Who Might Be the Mysterious Author of 'O: A Presidential Novel'
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsSo much for that Washington parlor game. The new anonymously written book "O: A Presidential Novel," a fictionalized tale of the 2008 presidential campaign, earned most of its buzz because of the whodunnit aspect. As Politics Daily put it last week, "though reviews so far are tepid, the undisclosed identity of the novelist has captured the short attention span of the political press." But Time magazine's Mark Halperin claims that he has solved the case. Anonymous, he says, is none other than Mark Salter. Among the clues: "There is a story early in the book based on a real-life tale that ...
'O: A Presidential Novel' by Anonymous: Credit Where Credit is Due
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAs my colleague Jill Lawrence reports, a book titled "O: A Presidential Novel" has recently been released by Simon & Schuster and, though reviews so far are tepid, the undisclosed identity of the novelist has captured the short attention span of the political press. Appealing to the clubby insider sensibility of National Press Club members, the publisher, Jonathan Karp, kicked off a sly inside-the-Beltway guessing game by suggesting "it would be great" if possible suspects "refrained from commenting" on their non-authorship, in "solidarity with the principle that a book should be judged on ...
And the Author of 'O' Is . . .
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'O: A Presidential Novel' -- By Anonymous, Starring Obama and 'Self-Obsessive' D.C.
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyA new story of O has arrived on some capital doorsteps, including mine. "O: A Presidential Novel," is a fictional – or is it non-fiction? – account of the Obama White House and the upcoming 2012 campaign by an author named "Anonymous." Yes, it's another who-wrote-it mystery. "What can I tell you about the author of O? Very little," teases Simon & Schuster Executive Vice President and Publisher Jonathan Karp in a letter to readers. "The author is someone who has been in the room with Barack Obama and knows this world intimately." Whether Karp's "room" is the Oval Office or a vast ...
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