Hackers

LulzSec Traitor Sabu Was Also a Loud Horrible Neighbor

LulzSec/Anonymous mastermind Hector “Sabu” Monsegur pissed off a lot of people this week after selling out his entire team to the FBI. But there’s one more person who hated his guts: the downstairs neighbor who filed a complaint with the city of New York. So just how bad a neighbor was he? Read her email.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 8

Anonymous Posts Open Letter to Sabu on Hacked Website

Yesterday it was reported that Sabu had turned against his hacker community by working with the FBI. As a result, six key members of LulzSec have been arrested. In response, Anonymous has posted an open letter to Sabu on a website it hacked. Forbes reports that the hacker collective attacked the website of anti-virus firm…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 7

Sabu Turns on Lulzsec

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous According to the FBI, you’re looking at Sabu, the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous-easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today. More » How the Feds Turned LulzSec’s Leader Against His Own Sabu, the most notorious hacker alive and de facto leader of LulzSec,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 6

Who Is Sabu? (Updated)

Yesterday, Sabu was a ghost—the spirit of Anonymous, having guided the group through its most powerful and infamous hacks. Now he’s Hector Monsegur, a 28-year-old unemployed Puerto Rican father of two from the New York projects—and a snitch. Here’s what we know: Sabu is Puerto Rican Sabu, unlike many of his cohorts, was not just…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 6

Anonymous Reacts to Sabu’s Betrayal of LulzSec

We know the FBI pressured LulzSec leader Sabu into giving up vital info one some of the most active hackers in his collective. But how does Anonymous feel after this most recent, and hugely significant, turn of events? They’re not happy. [View the story "Anonymous Reacts to Sabu’s Betrayal" on Storify] The thing to take…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 6

Read the Full LulzSec Indictments Right Here

In what’s looking more and more like LulzSec’s Waterloo, six top-ranking members of the notorious hacking collective were arrested today. Here, in their entirety, are their full indictments. It’s a fed’s-eye view of the organization that wreaked unfettered havoc for months last year. We’ll be reading through these in more detail, but for now it’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 6

How the Feds Turned LulzSec’s Leader Against His Own

Sabu, the most notorious hacker alive and de facto leader of LulzSec, has been captured by the FBI, and apparently turned against his hacker comrades. This is how the FBI caught him and made him sing. According to a FOX exclusive, the 28-year-old Hector Xavier Monsegur was living in the Jacob Riis housing complex in…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 6

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

According to the FBI, you’re looking at Sabu, the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous—easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today. One thing: he just turned in his people to the police. The name Sabu should be familiar: as part of LulzSec, a potent offshoot of Anonymous, he masterminded…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 6

Thanks to Anonymous Everyone Finally Takes Security Nerds Seriously

Anonymous and the like have plagued corporations and government entities alike for years now, and despite dozens of arrests, attacks are as prevalent as ever. Everyone’s finally waking up to the problem, and it’s a huge boon to the geeks we’ve been ignoring for years. The NYTimes reports from the RSA security conference where security…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar Mar 5

NSFW: Breast-Crazed Hackers Steal Naked Phone Photos of Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn

What a way to start the week! Body-worshipped Hollywood brass Christina Hendricks (of Mad Men fame) and Olivia Munn (of, uh, yeah…) have their bodies posted across the internet due to unwanted cellphone prying. Yes, it happened, again. The images—grainy and certainly phone-birthed—range from salacious to full on bare-breasted. Hendricks’ people deny on the fully…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 5

Internet Bandits Steal More Than $200,000 in Bitcoin

Thieving hackers just raided the coffers of several prominent Bitcoin exchanges and made off with $220,000 worth of digital bullion. Ouch. It turns out that a crapload of devalued Bitcoin still adds up to a lot of stolen cash. Bitcoin’s value took a mighty tumble last summer and has yet to recover but that doesn’t…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 2

Anonymous Blames Arrests on Snitches

Anonymous boasts of itself as being a loose collective, a patchwork of mixed, at times conflicting ideals, sans leadership. It seems to work well for them! Except this nebulousness also lets in pretty much anyone. Including the cops. MSNBC reports the recent rash of Anonymous arrests, spanning Spain and South America, can be traced back…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 1

No, Idiots, Anonymous Isn’t Going to Destroy the Power Grid

The Wall Street Journal and NSA are bleary-eyed with terror over the newest cyber bogeyman: Anonymous is going to cause a blackout! Except they can’t, and they won’t; they’re saying so themselves. So why the misinformation? https://gizmodo.com/nsa-anonymous-could-cause-power-outages-through-cybera-5886805 According to the WSJ, “The director of the National Security Agency has warned that the hacking group Anonymous…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 21

Hackers Were Scary in 1990

“Laughing at people talking about the internet decades ago” is one of our favorite video subgenres here at Gizmodo, and this specimen doesn’t disappoint: a fatherly AT&T narrator explains the dangers of hackers. Look out! Your modem is under attack! The video, entitled “Computer Security: You Make the Difference,” hits all the same points that…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 19

Why Is Anonymous Clamoring for a Super-Lame, Corporate-Sponsored Twitter Award?

The Shorty Awards recognize the shining best in “social media content creators.” Those last four words, when strung together, are perhaps the most boring in western civilization. So why does chaotic Anonymous want a stupid corporate-buzz award? We’re wondering too. This isn’t some zit-faced rogue “Anonymous” account—it’s Anonymous’ largest (and one of its de facto…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 17

Anonymous Takes Down FTC Sites

Just a week after hacking the CIA, Anonymous continued its onslaught of attacks on government websites early this morning by hacking several websites belonging to the Federal Trade Comission. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website-updated-5884119 The Associated Press reports: The loosely organized collection of cyber rebels said it attacked the FTC’s consumer protection business center and the National Consumer Protection…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 17

The FBI Might Cut Off the Internet For Millions of People on March 8th

In an unprecedented move, the FBI may cut off Internet access to millions of people on March 8th to try to rid the country of a Trojan. Millions of computers are infected worldwide—maybe even yours. The DNSChanger Trojan originated in Estonia and might be lurking undetected on as many as a half-million computers in the…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar Feb 16

Apple’s Third-Party Siri Crackdown (And How to Get Around It)

Apple has thrown a curve ball at all of the hackers who had successfully ported Siri onto other devices. Connecting to Siri reportedly now requires an added level of authentication. https://gizmodo.com/watch-siri-work-on-the-old-iphone-4-5850106 Apple has introduced a new token called SetActiviationToken that’s required to connect to Siri. That means that Siri won’t work on older phones using…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 15

Anonymous Explains CIA Takedown

It took a few days, but an purported representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday’s DDoS attack against the CIA. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website-updated-5884119 Their statement, unabridged, below: Citizens of the World, We are Anonymous. We are people. Just like you. We are not robots,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 11

Anonymous Says They’ve Killed the CIA’s Website (Updated)

One of Anonymous’ Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It’s definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon’s greatest hit so far. The attack—so far cosigned by two of the largest Anon Twitter accounts with a combined 600,000 followers—would fall in line with the group’s increasingly…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 10

LulzSec Traitor Sabu Was Also a Loud Horrible Neighbor

Anonymous Posts Open Letter to Sabu on Hacked Website

Sabu Turns on Lulzsec

Who Is Sabu? (Updated)

Anonymous Reacts to Sabu’s Betrayal of LulzSec

Read the Full LulzSec Indictments Right Here

How the Feds Turned LulzSec’s Leader Against His Own

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

Thanks to Anonymous Everyone Finally Takes Security Nerds Seriously

NSFW: Breast-Crazed Hackers Steal Naked Phone Photos of Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn

Internet Bandits Steal More Than $200,000 in Bitcoin

Anonymous Blames Arrests on Snitches

No, Idiots, Anonymous Isn’t Going to Destroy the Power Grid

Hackers Were Scary in 1990

Why Is Anonymous Clamoring for a Super-Lame, Corporate-Sponsored Twitter Award?

Anonymous Takes Down FTC Sites

The FBI Might Cut Off the Internet For Millions of People on March 8th

Apple’s Third-Party Siri Crackdown (And How to Get Around It)

Anonymous Explains CIA Takedown

Anonymous Says They’ve Killed the CIA’s Website (Updated)

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