Namecoin – A DNS alternative based on Bitcoin

Namecoin is a domain name system based on Bitcoin. It extends Bitcoin to add transactions for registering, updating and transferring names. The idea behind this is to provide an alternative to the existing DNS system where names can be taken from their owners by...

Jake Simpson: The biggest secret

On return to Europe from the 2008 NEXUS Conference in Australia, flying out of Sydney, we stopped off in Thailand to visit a close friend who lives on the island of Koh Samui. Samui is well known as a travelers’ international crossroads, and is also a place...
Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary? Next time you see a flock of teenage girls in the mall, note that one of them might be Kayla. As your average 16-year-old, she regularly hangs out with friends, works part time at a salon and hopes one day to be a teacher. Behind...
Inside Anonymous’ Secret War Room

Inside Anonymous’ Secret War Room

Dissident members of the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, tired of what they call the mob’s “unpatriotic” ways, have provided law enforcement with chat logs of the group’s leadership planning crimes, as well as what they say are key...
How LulzSec Hackers Outsmart Security Gurus

How LulzSec Hackers Outsmart Security Gurus

While the world argues whether the hacktivist group is more Robin Hood or terrorist, the big question is: how have the hacks been so successful? Security experts share some answers. Mischief makers, or hardened criminals? Cyber terrorists, or digital Robin Hoods? No...
Anonymous releases counter-hacking manual

Anonymous releases counter-hacking manual

Anonymous has returned to the forefront of the hacker war against authority with the release of a “counter-cyberterrorism” manual, along with data on the FBI. With Lulz Security now on permanent hiatus, fellow hacker group Anonymous has filled in the gap...

ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind

Obeying the rules is up to you Outside of a handful of the most permissive corners of the internet, absolute uncensored freedom of speech isn’t seen as a sacred right. If an Anon says or does something to offend the powers that be, that is their own fault. The...
50 Days of Mayhem: How LulzSec Changed Hacktivism Forever

50 Days of Mayhem: How LulzSec Changed Hacktivism Forever

LulzSec didn’t invent hacktivism, let alone hacking. But the small crew of publicity-hungry digital pirates may have ushered in a new era for both as they merrily sailed the cyber-seas for 50 days of mayhem that became perhaps the biggest tech story of the first...
Abraham Lincoln – Activist Quotes

Abraham Lincoln – Activist Quotes

This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. They can exercise their constitutional right of amending the existing government, or their revolutionary right to overthrow it. http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/10062148395

CommanderX of Anonymous Proclaims His Innocence

SANTA CRUZ — A homeless activist facing federal charges for allegedly hacking Santa Cruz County computers in December is out of custody. Christopher Doyon, who is homeless himself, was in Santa Cruz on Saturday to declare his innocence and address what he sees...

Once We Were Few, Now We Are Many, Expect Us

Heretic Productions brings you an extraordinary piece of Poetry by Bill Allyn. “Expect Us.” Expect Us Once we were weak; but now we stand tall. Millions of citizens, heeding the call. Demanding our freedom, the birthright of all. The Arab Spring turns to...

Anonymous helps lead Wall Street protests

Cyber activists associated with Anonymous have been in the forefront of helping to organize and conduct protests against Wall Street bankers in New York City. Rallying under the banner of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, the demonstrators say they want to change America’s...

An Army in the Shadows

In Friday’s Washington Post, Greg Miller and Julie Tate published a must-read study tracing the evolution of the Central Intelligence Agency from an intelligence-collection and -analysis operation into a shadow military force: In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001,...