The Good, The Bad & The Skinny on the Anonymous Cyber-Activist Movement

Anonymous & LulzSec Hacks US Police, Releases 10GB Of Confidential Data ... TFTS (blog) These are the kinds of information the hacking collective called AntiSec (Anonymous and LulzSec) has released following a retaliatory attack on US law enforcement web sites. Five of the credit cards details revealed to the public were used to make ... See all stories on this topic » TFTS (blog)

BlackBerry website hacked for helping UK Met NewsDen The hacker group has a reputation for breaking into the infamous LulzSec group, and has previously claimed that they could reveal the names of LulzSec team members. Patrick Spence, the managing director of global sales and regional marking at RIM ... See all stories on this topic » NewsDen

Hacker Group Threatens to 'Delete' Facebook on Nov. 5 HULIQ Of late, Anonymous, along with its recently unretired fellow hacker group LulzSec, have been participating in a campaign they have dubbed AntiSec. The purpose of the campaign, which was announced by LulzSec prior its "retirement," targets corruption in ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 5 U.S. Government Websites Hacked in 2011 International Business Times The hacker group Lulz Security (LulzSec) has claimed responsibility for a number of large-scale data breaches. The group is also working closely with another hacker group called Anonymous, and has encouraged other groups and individuals "to open fire ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

LulzSec, Anonymous … freedom fighters or the new face of evil? The Conversation Groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous have what many see as laudable goals. They promote freedom, or at least they claim to. The real question in all this is: what constitutes freedom? Though the political situation in Syria warrants attention, ... See all stories on this topic » The Conversation

LulzSec Strike Back At The Empire Fast Company Rebellious groups Anonymous and LulzSec have formed a hacktivist Voltron to strike back against international police efforts to arrest their members; they've hacked the police. It's a war, now. And we've developed a war-room style video of LulzSec's ... See all stories on this topic »

Give me back my data! The curse of personal information brokers ZDNet (blog) As we've seen recently, groups like Anonymous and the offshoot LulzSec have proven that the lax security at companies we're expected to trust are incapable of keeping their promises. It's more than just security that's at issue here. ... See all stories on this topic » ZDNet (blog)

AntiSec Breach Yields Huge Amount of Law Officers' Personal Data PC Magazine Identity Finder ran its software tool for combing files for personally identifiable information over the 123461 files contained in the data dump published by hackers associated with Anonymous and the disbanded hacktivist group LulzSec. ... See all stories on this topic »

Team Poison hacks Blackberry after riots Inquirer The group, which hacked Lulzsec in early July, defaced the web site with a warning to the firm and its workers, explaining that it would not let any police assistance go unpunished. Earlier today, Patrick Spence, managing director of global sales and ... See all stories on this topic »

Ignored password security policy leads to school data breach SearchSecurity.co.uk The password databases that our friends at Anonymous and LulzSec published all seem to indicate that some quite important hacks took place [because of re-used passwords]. The attack, which took place in March at Bay House School in Gosport, ... See all stories on this topic »

Local and state agencies are more vulnerable to hacker attacks Los Angeles Times LulzSec, a hacktivist group, hacked into the email accounts of employees at the Arizona Department of Public Safety in a highly publicized attack in June, but less-known breaches have resulted in hackers obtaining hundreds of thousands of personal ... See all stories on this topic »

AnonPlus gets defaced again, this time by Syrian hackers Ubergizmo I guess the arrest of LulzSec's alleged leader, Topiary, did not faze Anonymous as they went about business as usual. “In response to your hacking to the website of Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the Internet of ... See all stories on this topic »

Also a LOIC attack on Koch websites raises suspicions of law enforcement officials on three high school chums in New York at the Smoking Gun.