Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec

It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights.

By Ellen Messmer | 28 January, 2012 06:22

Tags: anonymous, anti-malware, AntiSec, cybercrime, European Parliament, Kelihos, legal, megaupload, OnGuardOnline.gov, privacy day, rsa, security, sourcefire, symantec