Hacking

The Rush To Blame Russia For The DNC Email Hack Is Premature

July 26, 2016 Trevor Timm, www.theguardian.com Educate! DNC, Hacking, Russia

By Trevor Timm for The Guardian - Since WikiLeaks published the DNC’s hacked emails on Sunday, there has been a flurry of accusations – including from the Hillary Clinton campaign – that Russian president Vladimir Putin orchestrated both the hack and the leak, in an attempt to help Donald Trump win the presidency. First, it would certainly be disturbing if Russia is trying to affect our democratic process, but maybe we should wait until we see actual evidence before deciding,as some have, that Putin ordered hackers to help swing the US election on the eve of the Democratic convention?

EFF Files Chelsea Manning Appeal On Hacking Conviction

May 21, 2016 Cory Doctorow, www.boingboing.net Resist! Chelsea Manning, Hacking

By Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing - Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is serving 35 years in prison, in part due to a conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the overbroad, antiquated statute made notorious by its role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. The CFAA bans "exceeding your authorization" on a computer you don't own, language that's been interpreted by CFAA's fans as banning anything that violates a service's terms of service -- turning a ToS violation into an imprisonable felony.

Everything We Know About How The FBI Hacks People

May 17, 2016 Kim Zetter, www.wired.com Educate! FBI, Hacking

By Kim Zetter for Wired - RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In fact, the bureau has a long history of surreptitiously hacking us, going back two decades. That history is almost impossible to document, however, because the hacking happens mostly in secret.

Privacy Supporters Rally At Apple Store Over iPhone Order

February 20, 2016 Resist! Apple, FBI, Hacking, Privacy, Surveillance

By Elizabeth Weise for USA Today - SAN FRANCISCO — Privacy and security supporters held a rally outside Apple’s San Francisco store Wednesday to protest the U.S. government's demand that Apple give the FBI a backdoor to hack into an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers in the December San Bernardino, Calif., shooting that killed 14 people. “We want to show Apple that people are standing with them,” said Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based cyber-liberties group.

FBI Demands Apple Grant Power To Hack All iPhone Users

February 18, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Apple, FBI, Hacking, Surveillance

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadowproof - Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company will oppose the court order, declaring, “The U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.” The announcement from Cook may be one of the most significant examples of a corporation standing up to the abusive power of the security state in the aftermath of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosures. “The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation,” Cook explained. “In the wrong hands, this software—which does not exist today—would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.”

Hackers Post Private Files Of America’s Biggest Police Union

January 30, 2016 Jon Swaine and George Joseph, www.theguardian.com Resist! Hacking, Police Union

By Jon Swaine and George Joseph for The Guardian - Private files belonging to America’s biggest police union, including the names and addresses of officers, forum posts critical of Barack Obama, and controversial contracts made with city authorities, were posted online on Thursday after a hacker breached its website. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which says it represents about 330,000 law enforcement officers across the US, said the FBI was investigating after 2.5GB of data taken from its servers was dumped online and swiftly shared on social media. The union’s national site, fop.net, remained offline on Thursday evening.

How Teenage Hackers Broke Into CIA Director’s Email Account

October 22, 2015 Kim Zetter, www.wired.com Educate! CIA, Hacking

By Kim Zetter for Wired - A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief’s personal information. Using information like the four digits of Brennan’s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his associates were able to reset the password on Brennan’s AOL account repeatedly as the spy chief fought to regain control of it. News of the hack was first reported by the New York Postafter the hacker contacted the newspaper last week. The hackers described how they were able to access sensitive government documents stored as attachments in Brennan’s personal account because the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email.

Anonymous Revealing Ku Klux Klan’s Identities – Operation #OpKKK

July 9, 2015 Anon HQ, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Hacking, KKK, Racism, White Supremacy

By Anon HQ in MintPress News - Anonymous has revealed a list of KKK members in light of the Ferguson protests as part of #OpKKK and a cyberwar against the organization. The ‘de-hooding’ of Ku Klux Klan members has spurred threats and attacks against Anonymous over social media, with @KuKluxKlanUSA stating “You messed with us, now it’s our turn to mess with you.” The threat comes in response to the campaign Anonymous began online, to name KKK members in the Ferguson and St. Louis area after it was discovered that the KKK members have been distributing fliers. The fliers warn Ferguson protesters of the consequences of a continuation of their fight, stating they have “awakened a sleeping giant,” and that they [KKK] will use “lethal force” against protestors if they continue. The fliers handed out justify the lethal force as a form of “self-defense.”

Jeremy Hammond Deserves Our Praise For Hacking Stratfor

May 15, 2015 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Hacking, Jeremy Hammond, Media, Political Prisoner, Solidarity, Technology

The mainstream media has devoted hundreds of articles to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary “Citizenfour,” but it’s not devoted the same level of attention to many other whistleblowers and political prisoners, like Jeremy Hammond, no matter how sensational the facts they revealed. In November 2013, a federal court sentenced Hammond to 10 years in prison for his part in the hack of Strategic Forecasting, an Austin, Texas-based corporate intelligence agency, also known as Stratfor. Working on behalf of Lulzsec, an infamous subgroup of Anonymous, Hammond leaked 5 million private emails taken from Stratfor to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, a release that came to be known as the Global Intelligence Files, or GI Files.

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