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The Dark Overlord Hackers Threaten To Release TOP SECRET Files of 9/11 Litigation Unless Paid

The Dark Overlord Hackers Blackmail: To Release TOP SECRET Files of 9/11 Litigation Unless Paid In Bitcoin TOPICS:Aaron KeselHackingSeptember 11th JANUARY 3, 2019 By Aaron Kesel A hacker group known as The Dark Overlord (Tdo) has announced it has breached a law firm handling cases related to the September 11th attacks and threatened to publicly release a…

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Chinese Cyber Attacks: How to steal a trillion…

  FEBRUARY 19th Mandiant, a security firm, released a report alleging that hackers from a Chinese military outfit known as Unit 61398 were probably behind attacks against more than a hundred companies and government agencies around the world. Without delving into the geopolitics of the the incident, involvement in which the Chinese authorities vehemently deny…

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Anons talks about their cyberactivist highlights of 2012: impact of arrests, who speaks for Anonymous

                                 Anonymous reflects on a “frantic and historic” year By Natasha Lennard   (Credit: Reuters/Fredy Builes) Perhaps no tech story was bigger this year than the growth of the crusading hacker collective Anonymous. In a Best of 2012 package, Andrew…

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Internet Freedoms Face Powerful Forces

The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around…

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Putin Struggles: With Threats To Media And Hacker Attacks On Opposition

    Putin and United Russia Get Less Than 50 Percent Of Vote     MOSCOW–On the day of the State Duma elections, the chief editor of the online publication gazeta.ru Mikhail Katov was summoned to the headquarters of Russia’s state media watchdog Roskomnadzor. The day before, he had received notification that his site violated…

Breaches show how sophisticated industrial espionage is becoming.

Black Swans throughout cyber space. Caveat Emptor The big question: Who’s behind them? Not to long ago, computer hacking was mainly the handiwork of individuals with overactive imaginations and good programming skills, and they often broke into computers for sport. More recently, people with more sinister motives – including organized criminal gangs – have made…