Infuriated by Internet shutdown, Anonymous declares war on Syrian government websites worldwide

The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the Internet shutdown yesterday in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous basically declared war on the Syrian regime, saying it intends to obliterate "all Web assets belonging to the Assad regime that are NOT hosted in Syria," starting today.

By Ellen Messmer | 30 November, 2012 18:41

Tags: Anonymous and Syria, security, Syria Internet blackout, Lulzsec, Syria Internet shutdown, government, industry verticals, LAN & WAN, Anonymous

Top security incidents of 2011

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By Marsh Ray, senior software development engineer at PhoneFactor | 22 December, 2011 07:25

Tags: Comodo, Google, security, Lulzsec, Sony PlayStation hack, security breach, DigiNotar, Comodo Certificate Authority, rsa, Anonymous

Due diligence security is the enterprise Achilles heel

Big business and government need to invest in data forensics and skills if they intend on fending off targeted attacks, according to analyst firm Gartner.

By Liam Tung | 26 August, 2011 07:40

Tags: B Gary, computer forensics, Perimeter attacks, targeted atatcks, data leakage prevention, threat detection, malware, vulnerability assessent controls, rsa, SIEM, network security, security, Lulzsec

DDoS attacks bolster cloud website optimiser

Enterprise product in the making and ‘loved’ by disbanded hacker group LulzSec.

The constant and very real threat of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at headline grabbing “hacker” groups, such as Lulz Security and Anonymous, have helped one tech start-up pick up new business.

By Liam Tung | 28 June, 2011 12:22

Tags: DDoS attacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS), security, ddos, Lulzsec, cloudfare

LulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns

Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a new one

By Bob Brown | 03 August, 2011 02:45

Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, applications, Networking, Lulzsec, Web 2.0, software, collaboration, social media, internet, Google, security