14 Members of Anonymous Arrested
by Tony Rushin
Today I was going to launch a blog series on “the big 4” of malicious software (admittedly, I live in a weird world) but with this news from two days ago I’m going to temporarily put that series on hold.
We got some bad guys! As reported late Tuesday in the ABAJournal, the Feds arrested 14 people from the group known as Anonymous. This is the group that allegedly hacked PayPal, PlayStation, MasterCard and Visa. They seem to be politically motivated (supposedly retaliating because of actions taken against the WikiLeaks donation account).
In a local, legal connection the Daily Report, in the ATLAW section, previously reported that Anonymous had hacked into King & Spalding’s network in the past.
There are a lot more bad guys out there – so beware – but Anonymous is one of the big, organized, scary-good groups (spear-phishing, which I’ve been writing about in recent blogs, is one of their favorite, sneaky tactics) so this is good news.
As always, “let’s be careful out there”!
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