Friday, January 28, 2011
CyberWar Update: Anonymous Group are attacking the Egyptian Government
01/25/2011 4:40 PM Anonymous Attacks?
While it has not been confirmed that Anonymous is attacking the sites, they do seem to be down.
Below: Official Anonymous Press Release Regarding Egypt
According to @magnificenteve, the Anonymous collective that cyber-attacked the Tunisian government and the opponents of Facebook has now turned to Egypt. She tweets:
anonymous are attacking the government website in #Egypt...www.egypt.gov.eg , http://www.moiegypt.gov check them,they are down #Jan25
While it has not been confirmed that Anonymous is attacking the sites, they do seem to be down.
Below: Official Anonymous Press Release Regarding Egypt
CyberWar Update: FBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks 'hacktivists'
By Mark Seibel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The FBI said Thursday that it had served more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into computer attacks on websites of businesses that stopped providing services in December to WikiLeaks.The FBI statement announcing the search warrants was the first indication that the U.S. intends to prosecute the so-called "hacktivists" for their actions in support of WikiLeaks.
The search warrants were executed on the same day authorities in Great Britain announced that they had arrested five people in connection with the attacks, which temporarily crippled the websites of Amazon.com, PaylPal, MasterCard, Visa, the Swiss bank PostFinance and others.
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