As you may be hopefully unaware, today is Alice Day, a day inspired by Lewis Carroll's debated sexual attraction to Alice In Wonderland's very underage and very real counterpart, where proud pedophiles come together in celebration of their disorder. So it's a beautiful day for a NAMBLA takedown, and Anonymous was happy to answer the call. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"Actually that's Yostuba& who is the mascot, given that she has a hairstyle with four bows that the site uses for its favicon (4chan = 4 bows, dead..." More »
Samsung has been caught allowing agency staff to leave negative reviews of HTC products online, with the global shame outbreak forcing the tech giant to (sort of) apologise to its mobile rival. Read More >>
A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea's official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. Read More >>
Some, one, or all of the members of the Anonymous hacking collective have launched an astonishing new offensive, demanding North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons programme and grants its people full internet access, or face the wrath of the angry nerds as part of Operation Free Korea. Read More >>
Brit Boxer Curtis Woodhouse was unfortunate enough to take a beating in the ring last week, losing his light welterweight title. One particularly venomous Twitter user started hitting him with abuse about it, so Woodhouse decided to track him down. Read More >>
Featured comment by camholder:
"Sorry but I don't agree, the troll was being a bully and you stand up to bullies. Given some of the things the guy said I wouldn't have blamed Woodho..." More »
Featured comment by cinilak:
"I used to work in finance, 95% of people there were money obsessed consumer drones. Most of them were so thick they couldn't possibly make that much m..." More »
In the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide, your friendly neighborhood cyber-vigilantes Anonymous have been lashing out. It's mostly been DDOSes and cyber-vandalism, but their most recent project is a bit more fun, and lets you play Asteroids with a Nyan Cat spaceship that blasts up sites. Read More >>
Featured comment by jaggedspike:
"There are some methods to minimize it, but everything is vulnerable. But large companies would probably be able to take a typical DDOS attack and its ..." More »
The Anonymous hacking collective has petitioned the White House, using the US government's open forum to ask for DDoS attacks to be registered as an official form of complaint -- and requesting the convictions of previous DDoS attackers be wiped from their records. Read More >>
Featured comment by ScyBy:
"Yes, I'd say so, because that's blocking access to the shop by staff and members of the public.
The law states that a protest cannot block access t..." More »
Nothing is truly official with Anonymous, but @YourAnonNews was the closest thing the hackers had to a spokesperson. Now it's deactivated. This is a big blow to Anon's power to organise (and boast) across the web. Read More >>
Featured comment by jkne:
"I think yesterday I saw a tweet about hacking a Westboro church Twitter account.
Surely not a good idea to tweet about that!
@YourAnonNews is con..." More »
Following the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy, the Westboro Baptist Church is unsurprisingly stirring up controversy by doing one of the things they do best: being assholes and picketing funerals. Your friendly, faceless, neighbourhood hacking group Anonymous has responded by doing what they do best: publishing private information, in this case, about the members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Read More >>
What a year for technology, what with all its tiny tablets and overhauled operating systems. But for every Nexus 7 triumph, a Nexus Q disaster reared its gruesome head. Here are the worst screw-ups the tech industry endured in 2012. Advanced warning: They're not for the faint of heart. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"No "RIM failing to launch BB10 this year"? that's a pretty big screw up, considering they are leaking market share like a punctured balloon and are al..." More »
Remember those Anonymous attacks way back in 2010? PayPal, Mastercard and the Ministry of Sound, to name a few, got the Anonymous treatment. Well, it's taken a while, but at least one of the Anonymous hive has been dragged (probably kicking and screaming) away from his computer screen, and is being charged with some pretty serious crap in court. Read More >>
Featured comment by JohnStead2012:
"And all of that were using Tax Payer money.
For whom? For PayPal !!!
Stop this now.
And use the money instead for British people for better liv..." More »
Anonymous, who has been trying to go after Israel, has swallowed a big fish: Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. Anon has hacked his Facebook account and replaced the cover photo with a Free Palestine picture. Pretty embarrassing for a high ranking official! Read More >>
Featured comment by Woody:
"Yeah my point was not the use of misinformation such as hacking is childish, of course this has been part of warfare since people first decided to kil..." More »