AnonSec Attempts To Down $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos And Employee Data

The AnonSec group previously gained fame after claiming to have hacked an NSA drone in 2014, and is known to have hacked Israeli, Indonesian and Turkish government and commerce websites for a variety of political reasons.

MintPress News Desk
作者 MintPress News Desk
Nasa's Global Hawk drone (Photo: NASA)

Hackers from the AnonSec group who spent several months hacking Nasa have released a huge data dump and revealed they tried to bring down a $222m Global Hawk Drone into the Pacific Ocean. The hack included employee personal details, flight logs and video footage collected from unmanned and manned aircraft. The 250GB data dump contained the

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Hacking The CIA Director’s AOL Account Was A Political Act

With the rise of hacktivism, largely brought about by Anonymous, the hacking of a personal AOL account cannot simply be written off as a criminal act. Its political nature should be confronted.

Kevin Gosztola
作者 Kevin Gosztola
Alone in a warehouse, a hacker sits at a laptop while another screen displays data in green text. (Flickr / Brian Klug)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The vast majority of media coverage of the recent hack of the personal AOL account of CIA director John Brennan omits the hacker’s political motivations. Instead, these reports rely on stereotypes of hacker to disregard the importance of his message. A teenager hacked into the personal AOL account of

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Chinese Hackers Suspected In Massive Data Breach That Could Affect Every Federal Agency

The Chinese groups may be looking for information that can be used to approach or compromise people who could provide useful intelligence,

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press

WASHINGTON  — China-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the entire federal workforce could be at risk this time. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management — the human resources department for the federal government — and the

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US’ CentCom Seeks to Downplay Pro-ISIS Hackers Assaults

Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Steve Warren said the Defense Department “views this as little more than a prank, or as vandalism.”

Al Akhbar
作者 Al Akhbar

US defense officials said the hacking of Central Command’s social media accounts was embarrassing, as military and White House officials sought to downplay the effect of the hacking. Meanwhile, hundreds of French websites have been hacked by self-proclaimed “cyberjihadists” in recent days. On Monday, a group declaring support for the Islamic

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