Hackers declare war on Scientologists
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Tom Cruise video clip forced off YouTube, say activists, as church hit by sabotage of website
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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The experts claim hackers have compromised these sites by exploiting scripting vulnerabilities in their guestbooks.
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Xenu phobia Websites associated with the Church of Scientology are intermittently unavailable today after an internet group calling itself Anonymous declared war on the controversial organisation.â¦
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Software maker SCO Group has been targeted by hackers once again. This time, the company&#39;s Web site was defaced. The attacks began during the long holiday weekend and were first noticed
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The FBI is stepping up its fight against hijacked home computers known as zombies or bots.
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Security researchers at South Korea's first international hacker conference rip holes in Linux and VOIP. But where are the drinking games? Quinn Norton reports from Seoul.
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Hackers on Tuesday attacked a Web site of an al Qaeda-linked group that beheaded two U.S. hostages in Iraq, rerouting visitors to a page showing a penguin toting a machine-gun and warning against hosting such sites.
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Unix vendor SCO Group Inc became the victim of a hacker over the Thanksgiving weekend, in an apparent response to the company&#39;s claims against the Linux operating system.
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Telecoms terror, Manchester style Forget the threat to humanity posed by Spaniard-swallowing cyberkiosks: it's evident the Lizard Army has deployed a far more dangerous version of the murderous telecoms cubicle, viz: the bottle-weilding Mancunian attack phone box:â¦
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By TED BRIDIS Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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In worm's latest version, authors ridicule rival worm Netsky and promise to attack Symantec, McAfee and others.
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About 140 foreign intelligence organizations are trying to hack into the computer networks of the U.S. government and U.S. companies, a top counterintelligence official said.
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Hackers penetrate the network of a consumer data company and make off with thousands of credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
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An online mob attacking Scientology thought they had tracked down a hacker who had busted into their lair. Instead, they bombarded a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife with threatening phone calls.
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A group of hackers calling itself &quot;Anonymous&quot; has hit the Church of Scientology&#39;s Web site with an online attack.The attack was launched Jan. 19 by Anonymous, which is seeking media attention to help &quot;save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing,&quot; according to a Web page maintained by Anonymous.Anonymous claims to have knocked the Church&#39;s Web site offline with a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which many computers bombard the victim&#39;s server with requests, overwhelming it with data in the hope of ultimately knocking the system offline. True to its name, Anonymous does not disclose the true identities of its members.The attacks were spurred by the Church&#39;s efforts to remove video of movie star Tom Cruise professing his admiration for the religion, according to an Anonymous video manifesto posted to Youtube.&quot;For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form,&quot; a creepy computerized voice states in the video. Anonymous followed up this dispatch with a second video blasting the media for failing to completely report the group&#39;s criticisms of the church. This video was taken down Friday by Youtube, citing a &quot;terms of use violation.&quot;Anonymous has managed to generate a measurable attack against the Scientology.org Web site. Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220Mbps of traffic, according to Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, whose company compiles data on Internet attacks.The Anonymous campaign shows some level of organization. &quot;220Mbps is probably about in the middle of attack sizes,&quot; Nazario said. &quot;It&#39;s not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this.&quot;On average, the attacks lasted about 30 minutes and used up 168Mbps of bandwidth. In the past year, Arbor has seen attacks on other sites hit 40Gbps, or 200 times the strength of the Anonymous event.Shortly after it was hit with the DDOS flood, the Scientology.org Web site was moved to a server hosted by Prolexic Technologies, according to data compiled by Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company. Prolexic specializes in protecting companies from DDOS attacks.A Prolexic spokeswoman confirmed that the Church of Scientology is one of the company&#39;s clients, but declined to offer more details on the matter. The Church of Scientology did not answer questions relating to the online attacks, but in a statement it said that the controversy over the Tom Cruise video had driven traffic to its Web site.The secretive Church of Scientology&#39;s practices, including its efforts to use copyright law to restrict the dissemination of information about the church, have engendered a lot of criticism within the Internet community. But one Web site set up to criticize Scientology -- called Operation Clambake -- called the DDOS attacks a bad idea. &quot;Attacking Scientology like that will just make them play the religious persecution card,&quot; wrote Andreas Heldal-Lund, the Web site&#39;s owner. &quot;They will use it to defend their own counter actions when they try to shatter criticism and crush critics without mercy.&quot;If publicity was Anonymous&#39; ultimate goal, the group has had some success. Late in the day Friday, seven of the top 10 stories on the Digg.com news-linking site related to Scientology or to Anonymous&#39; communiques.Although the group&#39;s Web page exhorts participants to &quot;begin bumping Digg,&quot; Anonymous did not manipulate the news site&#39;s promotional algorithm system, which determines which stories get top billing, according to Digg CEO Jay Adelson.&quot;They must have done a very good job of bringing in a diverse set of interests,&quot; he said. &quot;It just happened to hit a nerve that the Digg community was interested in.&quot;It is unusual for Digg&#39;s front page to be so dominated by a single topic, but not unprecedented, Adelson said. Last year&#39;s shootings at Virginia Tech and the 2005 terrorist bombings in London achieved a comparable level of coverage. &quot;In the history of Digg, there&#39;s no question that the topic of Scientology has been of great interest to the community,&quot; he said. &quot;I can&#39;t explain why.&quot;
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The Federal Trade Commission formally announced yesterday its first assault against spyware - bits of computer code that surreptitiously install themselves on the computers of Internet users