This 21 year-old PlayStation3 gamer is taking on the ultraconservative South Australian Attorney-General in his own electorate. We talked to Gamers4Croydon Candidate Kat Nicholson.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate.
The critic, commenting on a story on the website of a suburban Chicago [...]
The loosely-knit group known as Anonymous has brought out war rhetoric to defend their continuing distributed denial of service attacks on the Australian government.
At first glance Incognito may seem suited only for the extremely paranoid, because of the totality of tools it offers to hide your online presence. But those tools, each designed to mask a certain aspect of your online activity, have been around for quite a while.
Update: Anonymous OS is fake and it seems like people who released it are acting as Anonymous
Operations group. Please do not install this. If you already did, remove it as soon as possible. According to the real Anonymous Ops, it may be affected with malware.
Anonymous Hacker Group has released their own Ubuntu based distribution named Anonymous OS.
Written by: David Heath | Published in: SecurityIn a protest against mooted federal data retention laws, hackers claiming to represent the international hacktivist group Anonymous defaced ten Queensland government websites over the past few days. They threaten more is to come.
Following successful online attacks by "anonymous", the Australian government's Department of Defence is hiring a large number of internet security staff.
Don’t let what happened to the director (actually, former director) of a very powerful government agency make you think that engaging in anonymous email activities is impossible. It is, though, as with all things involving digital security, it can never be 100%.
This story of government overreach is so outrageous that we have to re-iterate that it is, in fact, real: the State of Minnesota has banned popular free online education site, Coursera, and has sent warning notices to its institutional partners, such as Stanford and Princeton, for providing high-quality instruction without paying a registration fee.