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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Anonymous pwns INTERPOL following global arrest spree

Following the arrest of 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacking collective in Europe and South America, the INTERPOL website went offline. Coincidence? I don't think so. After all, Anonymous has already proven it isn't scared, or indeed incapable. of taking down law enforcement sites. Earlier in the month it managed to take the CIA website offline and even managed to listen in to a private conference call between FBI agents and Scotland Yard detectives who were discussing how to deal with Anonymous hacking attacks amongst other things. The fact that the INTERPOL site went down within hours of INTERPOL announcement concerning the arrests, and stayed down most of Tuesday, would seem to suggest that Anonymous were successful in pwning yet another law enforcement site. Indeed, Anonymous member accounts on Twitter soon claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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