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Anonymous Just Took Down NAMBLA’s Homepage to Protest Pedophilia Pride Day

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 >>

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Samsung Promises to Stop Anonymously Slagging Off HTC

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 >>

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North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr Accounts Have Been Hacked

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 >>

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Anonymous to Save World from Nuclear Apocalypse by Attacking North Korea

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 >>

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British Boxer Shows How to Deal With Twitter Trolls

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 >>

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Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a US Government Website

After hacking up government websites last week, and the week before, Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. This time, they've leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives. And they did it all on a US government site. Read More >>

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A New Anonymous Hack Lets You Shoot Up US Government Sites with a Nyan Cat Spaceship

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 >>

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Anonymous Hacker Gets Jailed for 18 Months

Remember Operation Payback, back in 2010? Anonymous got all pissy about the Wikileaks thing, so they hit PayPal and Visa (among others), DDoSing them to hell. Well, the crack team of hacktivists behind Op Payback are finally facing the music -- some pretty serious jail time. Read More >>

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Anonymous Hacks MIT in Aaron Swartz’s Name

The Internet is dealing with the suicide of gifted programmer and activist Aaron Swartz in a variety of ways — but Anonymous is responding with what it does best. Two of MIT's sites have been hacked into memorials. Read More >>

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Anonymous Wants DDoS Recognised as an Official Form of Protest

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 >>

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Twitter Kills Anonymous’ (Semi) Official Account

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 >>

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Anonymous Attacks Westboro Baptist Church Over Sandy Hook Funeral Protest

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 >>

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The Biggest Tech Screw-Ups of the Year

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 >>

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Anonymous vs. the Law, the Law Seems to be Winning

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 >>

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Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom Has Been Hacked by Anonymous

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 >>