Operation Blackout by Anonymous

“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive censorship. We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings. To the United States government, you should’ve expected us.”

This isn’t some quote or a famous dialogue, it's the latest warning by anonymous to the US Govt. Apparently in return to the SOPA actions.

Let’s begin with the story about SOPA.

SOPA, an abbreviation for Stop Online Piracy Act, was introduced to the House of Representatives aiming to curb key features of the Internet to protect the rights of the entertainment industry. 

The PROTECT IP Act, the Senate match of SOPA, was passed earlier this year, but its execution was deferred for some time due to rising fears that it has the power to encumber the freedom of speech. While both bills say that they are trying to help the entertainment industry sell more movies and music, the effects of the bill are across-the-board and disastrous to Internet.

In the words of anonymous (as updated on the World Wide Web) “This is the most important operation in the history of Anonymous. No operation will be executed until we make sure this operation is successful. Any videos uploaded will be updates on this operation.”

The operation “BlackOut” is ACTUALLY a worldwide movement spread by one of the most known hackers group Anonymous, and there have been many proofs for the same. For example, this flyer got many shares and around 900 likes on Facebook within a few days of sharing. The Open letter by anonymous was also quite revolutionary in nature. Though the operation is totally related to Internet restrictions in USA, the observations clearly show that it contains the Rage of Anonymous against the US govt. internet policies.

As the letter said, “The United States has often been used as an example of the ideal free country. When the one nation that is known for its freedom and rights start to abuse its own people, this is when you must fight back, because others are soon to follow.
Has the U.S. government not learned from the past? Has it not seen the 2011 revolutions? Obviously the United States Government thinks they are exempt. This is not only an Anonymous collective call to action. What will a Distributed Denial of Service attack do? What's a website defacement against the corrupted powers of the government? No. This is a call for a worldwide internet and physical protest against the powers that be. Spread this message everywhere. We will not stand for this!”

Now that they are trying to include masses in it, the US govt. needs to take some serious steps to make sure that this doesn’t cause another serious blow to the economy.

Watch the video for more details.

Private Signed Certificate From Malaysian Government Used To Spread Malware

Malaysia, a name we seldom hear when it comes to news related to hacking and information security. But recently this country has been in news for the same.
A few months back, a news came. This time, anonymous (the international hacking group which came in news after 2003), had a new target for their activities, the Malaysian govt. As the news says, Malaysian govt. instructed south Asian countries to block the domains that were suspected to be related to the whole scam, thepitratebay.org and megaupload.com being a few prominent ones. Following that, Anonymous released a manifesto against the Malaysian government to show their disapproval against the Internet censorship and to teach the Malaysian users how to dodge the blocking measures. Apparently 51 sites have seen hacking attempts and 41 have been affected and/or disrupted in some way.