Governments Using Anonymous to Cover Hacking Tracks

Posted: 2012/07/04 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports

Governments around the world could be hiding behind the Anonymous name in order to carry out cyber-attacks against other government’s websites according to a security expert.

Pretending to be part of the hacking collective known as Anonymous would be a new departure for governments around the world, though it would be an effective way of carrying out low-level cyber disruption, while easily being able to distance themselves from all involvement.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/358989/20120703/anonymous-government-attacks.htm

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