Anonymous declares war on United States
“Our time for democracy is here. Our time for real change is here. This is America’s time, to have its own revolution. Therefore, Anonymous has decided to openly declare war on the United States government. This is a call to arms. We call upon the Citizens of the United States to stand beside us in overthrowing this corrupted body and call upon a new era. Our allegiance is to the American people, because they are us, and we are them.”
Latest celeb hacks: Christina Hendricks & Olivia Munn
We’ve been warning about this for a while but it seems that celebs haven’t been careful enough. Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn are the latest to be hit by a hacker taking their photos from their phones.
Fox News has the story here.
Types of hackers: “know your enemies”
The Seven Levels of Hackers article from govinfosecurity.com is a nice primer on the hacking community and the different types of hackers out there. It’s short and sweet but worth checking out.
Interpol all over You-know-who
Myfoxny.com reporting that Interpol has arrested 25 “Anonymous” suspects. The smackdown may be here.
h/t Drudge.
Most websites don’t know how they were hacked
A worrying report from Commtouch-StopBadware shows that many websites are told they are hacked by outside sources and then don’t know how it happened. Of course this only leaves them vulnerable to the next hack. Might want to invest in some pentesting and start taking this stuff seriously.
More from Globes.co.il here.
Wikileaks and Anonymous go up against Stratfor
A match made in Hades. Probably inevitable though as they plan to publish emails stolen from Stratfor – 5 Million of them.
International Business Times has more here.
Corporations still not heeding cybersecurity warnings
According to Marketwatch, corporate executives and boards are still not paying attention to the risks of a cybersecurity breach. This seems to be pretty common in the world of risk – it will always happen to the other guy, not me. That kind of thinking is allowing breaches to continue and gives comfort to “you-know-who”. I guess it hasn’t reached critical mass yet.
