Hacktivist Groups Unite Against Common Targets

June 21, 2011 from Euronews

Cyber war has been declared by Anonymous and LulzSec. The two established groups of hackers have released statements on their websites and issued messages on social network site Twitter saying they are joining forces to take on governments, banks and big corporations. Anonymous, who call themselves 'hacktivists' are supporters of WikiLeaks and its creator, Julian Assange. Along with LulzSec, their partners in this new campaign, their aim is to steal and leak any classified government information, claiming it is for the public good.

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LulzSec

Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, is a computer hacker group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offli... Explore this topic

Anonymous

Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and su... Explore this topic

Hacktivism

Cracktivism is a portmanteau of crack and activism. "Cracking" is the exact term which, in relation to computers, has the connotation of making an invisible break into a computer by manipulating the security code. Explore this topic

Cyber warfare

Cyberwarfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare, and in 2013 was, for the first time, considered a larger threat than Al Qaeda or terrorism, by many ... Explore this topic

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.... Explore this topic

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million... Explore this topic

Euronews

Euronews is a European, multilingual news television channel, headquartered in Lyon-Écully, France. Created in 1993, it claims to be covering world news from a Pan-European perspective. Explore this topic

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