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Anonymous hackers hacked by young Turks

John Leyden
The Register
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:58 UTC
'Snobby, arrogant, IGNORANT little f*cking children'

AnonPlus, the social network set up by anarcho-hacktivista collective Anonymous, has itself been hacked.

Affiliates of the group began to set up the site after profiles established by its members on Google+ were turfed out last week. Days later the pre-beta site was defaced by rival hackers in Turkey, who replaced the site's front page with the image of a dog wearing a suit, a joke version of the standard Anonymous logo, together with a message (below) mocking the group in Turkish and English.
We Are TURKIYE We Are AKINCILAR

This logo suits you more ... How dare you rise against to the World ... Do you really think that you are Ottoman Empire? We thought you before that you cannot challenge with the world and we teach you cannot be social Now all of you go to your doghouse ...
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Heathrow to get new facial recognition scanners


The Register
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:00 UTC
If your face doesn't fit ...

Passengers going through terminals one and five at Heathrow will have their faces scanned from September before they board their planes, airport operator BAA has announced.

Travellers will be enrolled into a facial recognition system and the biometrics linked with the boarding pass on entry into the common user lounges at the terminals. Passengers will then be verified against their previous enrolment before boarding their flight.

The aim of technology, which will be provided by biometric software firm Aurora in partnership with security company Atkins, is to help prevent an instance where an international passenger swaps tickets with a domestic passenger in the departure lounge.
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Sony insurer says it's not liable for costs of data breach

Dan Goodin
The Register
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:03 UTC
Sues game maker for saying otherwise

Sony has been sued by its insurance company, which says the policy it issued doesn't cover a series of high-profile security breaches that exposed personal information associated with more than 100 million accounts.

A complaint filed Wednesday by the Zurich American Insurance Company (ZAIC) and the Zurich Insurance Company said the breaches have generated at least 55 class-action complaints against Sony in the US and three in Canada. Additionally Sony has been subject of investigations conducted by one or more state attorney general's offices, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade relating to the unauthorized access of its customers' data.
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19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge'

Dan Goodin
The Register
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:06 UTC
Prosecution of Reddit founder cited

A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service.

The 18,592 documents made available Wednesday through Bittorrent were pulled from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, a prestigious scientific journal that was founded in the 1600s, the protester said. Even though the vast majority of the documents are hundreds of years old, the London-based Royal Society charges from $8 to $19 for each one, and restricts viewing to one person on one computer for only a single month.
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MacBook batteries susceptible to hack attacks

Dan Goodin
The Register
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:12 UTC
Default passwords raise bricking threat, maybe more

Now that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine's battery.

Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how to permanently disable the battery. And in time, he said, it also may be possible to remotely hijack a machine by manipulating the firmware on one of the stored power supply's chips.
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Want to be more secure? Don't be stupid

Richard Chirgwin
The Register
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:14 UTC
The best way to defend against most network vulnerabilities is to deal with the simplest attack vectors, according to Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD).

The DSD's analysis has credibility and clout, because it's based on analysis of real attacks launched against Australian government networks. And according to its latest work, as much as 85 percent of attacks can be addressed with four relatively straightforward defences.

These are, in order: keep applications patched and use the latest version of applications (Flash, the Acrobat PDF viewer, Microsoft office and Java are singled out); patch operating system vulnerabilities; minimize the number of users with administrative access to systems (while making sure that your BOFH doesn't use an admin account for e-mail and browsing); and whitelist your applications.
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Hackers leak details of cases vs Palin, hint Obama will be next


GMA News
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:18 UTC
Hackers uploaded to the Internet Friday (Manila time) the court documents of at least eight cases against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

In messages on its Twitter account, hacker group TeaMp0isoN also hinted it will soon leak details of cases against President Barack Obama.

"[Eight] Court Cases against @SarahPalinUSA that have been whitewashed," it said.

The supposed data about the cases against Palin were uploaded to Pastie.org.

A later tweet said "the next bunch of cases that will be leaked will be related to Obama."

The TeaMp0isoN group had been in a rivalry of sorts with Lulz Security, which had also hacked into many government and corporate websites.

Last June, the group vowed to reveal the identities of Lulz Security members, who TeaMp0isoN said were "nothing but a bunch of script kiddies."
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Egypt Clashes Increase Tensions with Military

Heba Saleh
Financial Times
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:07 UTC
Egypt
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Men stand on top of an armoured Egyptian Army vehicle during a protest in Cairo January 29, 2011.
Tensions between pro-democracy groups in Egypt and the ruling military council have risen sharply after weekend violence in which knife-wielding supporters of the council set on thousands of activists determined to march on the defence ministry.

Analysts and activists say the clashes, which lasted for several hours on Saturday night and injured scores of people, mark a deterioration in a relationship that has come under mounting strain in recent weeks.

Several thousand activists from a spectrum of political groups had organised the march to press the military council to speed up trials of officials accused of killing 850 demonstrators during the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, former president, this year.
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South Sudan rebel leader Gatluak Gai killed in mysterious circumstances


Sudan Tribune
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00 UTC
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Gatluak Gai
  • SSLA rebels claim SPLA involved in Gatluak Gai's murder
  • South Sudan army (SPLA) deny involvement in Gatluak Gai's killing
A rebel leader in South Sudan's Unity state was shot dead this morning in Koch county, only three days after he signed a peace deal with South Sudan army, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).

Citizens and officials from the area told Sudan Tribune that Colonel Gatluak Gai was shot dead on Saturday morning along with some of his bodyguards after a group of people opened fire on him at Pakur where his forces have been temporarily assembled.

Phillip Aguer, the SPLA spokesperson confirmed Gatluak's death, accusing the latter's deputy, Marko Chuol Ruei for allegedly opening killing the former rebel leader after disagreement within the rebel camp.

"As you are aware, the government of Unity state entered into an agreement with Gatluak Gai and his forces leading to the signing of a peace agreement just three days ago. But two days later, differences began emerging within the rebel camps, whereby some soldiers led by Gatluak started disrespecting this peace deal," Aguer told Sudan Tribune by phone.
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US forcing Kashmiris to start armed struggle against Indian illegal occupation: Farooq/ Turabi


South Asian News Agency
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00 UTC
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United States wanted to impose war on Pakistan in collaboration of India and Kashmiri people are being forced for armed struggle by leaving the peaceful struggle for the independence of Kashmir. US is carrying out character assassination campaign against Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai by putting fake blames on him and he is being forced to take step against the sovereignty of Pakistan.

Pakistan should review its policy regarding the so called American war on terrorism in Afghanistan. Pakistan should think about her friendship with US that how much US is sincere with Pakistan after the arrest of Dr Fai.

Ghulam Nabi Fai
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Ghulam Nabi Fai
This was said by Former Prime Minister and Chief Organizer PML-N AJK Raja Farooq Haider Khan and Amir Jamaat-e-Islami AJK Abdul Rasheed Turabi while addressing demonstration protest at Muzaffarabad here on Saturday; meanwhile Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Aziz Alvi, Qazi Shahid Hamid and a number of other speakers also addressed the protest demonstration.

They said that it is need of hour to get out of the American war against the terrorism and think about the security and sovereignty of the country.

They said that after defeated in Afghanistan America want to sabotage the independence movement of Kashmir.
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