Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday Attacks

from threat level: Anonymous, a group not known for discipline, is giving itself a weekly deadline, a new attack every Friday. Following the Tuesday compromise of the website of tear gas maker Combined Systems, Inc., the Antisec wing of Anonymous struck a Federal Trade Commission webserver which hosts three FTC websites, business.ftc.gov, consumer.gov and ncpw.gov, the National Consumer Protection Week partnership website. Claiming this hack in opposition of the controversial international copyright treaty known as ACTA, which had been widely protested around the world for its potential to curtail freedom of expression on the internet, Anonymous continued the political messaging that has marked much of its recent high-profile actions.

Hackers Attack Chemical Weapons Maker on V-Day

from bits: While many celebrated Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, hackers celebrated a different holiday: the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution. They attacked Combined Systems, a company based in Jamestown, Pa., saying that the attack was in retaliation for sales by the company of chemical weapons “to repress our revolutionary movements.”

defcon 12/26: secret spies & govt lies

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call for 'more realistic' chem attack drills*
special ops robots now do psychological warfare*
stocks leading cyber wars*
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flashback: tsa accidentally reveals airport security secrets*
twitter buys gps startup 'mixer labs'*
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