Along with CIA takedown, information compromised at Dept. of Homeland Security in Anonymous attack
The pace of assaults by cyber vigilantes seems to be rising in 2012. Yesterday reports broke that the site of the CIA was down, an attackfor which Anonymous claimed obligation. Right now CNN is reporting that assaults also strike federal government companies in Mexico and Alabama, and that “information was compromised” at Alabama’s Division of Homeland Stability.
In a launch, Alabama Office of Homeland Safety Director Spencer Collier explained that his agency was conducting a forensic evaluation to figure out what data could have been acquired by the hackers.
The ties to Anonymous arrive from statements on the teams Twitter and Tumblr feeds. As usual with the hacktivists, the assault was joined to a political protest. A page from the hacked web site bore the tag line of the team and said that this was a reaction to, “recent racist laws in an effort to punish immigrants as criminals.”
The Person Fawkes masks worn by the group have turn into the symbol of their movement. They are a reference to the comic ebook sequence V for Vendetta, published by Alan Moore and very first printed in 1982. That story chronicles a masked male’s makes an attempt to get down the British government.
Composing in The Guardian previously this week, Moore said he accredited of the motion which has borrowed his trademark mask. “Today’s response to comparable oppressions seems to be 1 that is intelligent, continually evolving and considerably a lot more humane…As for the concepts tentatively proposed in that dystopian fantasy thirty several years in the past, I’d be lying if I didn’t acknowledge that what ever usefulness they afford modern day radicalism is extremely gratifying.In terms of a wildly uninformed guess at our political foreseeable future, it feels one thing like V for validation.”
Submitted beneath: VentureBeat 
