Unilag Website Hacked, Replaced With Porn
Early today, Hackers got into the official website of the University Of Lagos at http://unilag.edu.ng and replaced the website with pornographic pictures. This is what it looked like[the blank part had pornographic images] Seems like a prank by some students. The website is now back up in its original form. Thanks @Mowahlay and @TheRollngstoner Image: @AbiolaAllison BinjoBinjo... Read More
Anonymous Plans To Shutdown The Servers That Power The Internet On March 31
Members of the hacking group, Anonymous, have posted a document on Pastebin, detailing and discussing plans to conduct Denial of Service attacks on the 6 DNS Servers that the internet runs on. Anonymous says the shutdown will be in response to SOPA, Wall Street and the US’s plans to retaliate cyber-attacks with military force. Here are snippets of the post To protest SOPA,... Read More
SOPA: The Day The Internet Stood Still [INFOGRAPHIC]
On Jan. 18th, Millions of internet users and content creators rose against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA]. Large sites like Wikipedia and Reddit, joined the protest by blacking out the entire site as it would be if SOPA had passed. Other sites like Google, blacked out their logos while blog networks like the Cheezburger network and developer forums like xda-developers... Read More
Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal, Is Prison Next?
Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, founders of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most resillient file sharing site have been convicted in a final appeal at the Swedish SUpreme Court and have been sentenced to different prison terms. They were earlier convicted in 2010 and had appealed... Read More
Google Fires Kenya Country Manager Over Mocality Saga
Reports have emerged that Google has fired its Kenyan country manager over Google’s theft of Mocality’s database. Nairobitech says Olga Arara-Kimani, a former Safaricom employee has been let off. They also say a technical person in Zurich has been fired. Yesterday, Nelson Mattos who had released an earlier statement apologising to Mocality released another statement: “We’ve... Read More
Anonymous Plans To Shutdown Facebook On January 28[UPDATED]
UPDATE: Anonymous via its Twitter account says the Facebook shutdown plans are fake. Last year, people claiming to be members of the hacking group Anonymous planned to take down Facebook on November 5 but the operation was dropped. They’re at it again this year. After last week’s attack on various Music Distribution and US Government websites in response to Megaupload’s... Read More
Anonymous Hits MPAA, RIAA and Universal Music Websites
In their campaign to get megaupload back on the web, the hacking group Anonymous has also admitted responsibility for taking down the Motion Picture Association of America’s website at mpaa.org as well as the Recording Industry Association of America at riaa.org and Universal Music’s website at universalmusic.com. #OpPayback – Recording Industry Association of... Read More
Megaupload Shutdown: Anonymous Takes Down US Justice Department Site
We reported earlier that file sharing service Megaupload was shutdown by the FBI due to privacy violations. The alleged operators of the site have also been arrested and taken into custody. The hacking group known as Anonymous through its various twitter accounts has announced that the official website of the United States Justice Department has been taken down by them. Here’s... Read More
FBI Shuts Down Megaupload, Charges Operators With Piracy
In a statement from the United States Justice Department, the FBI has busted the operators of File sharing service Megaupload and have charged them with Piracy. 7 people have been indicted, while 4 have been arrested and taken into custody. The website ‘Megaupload.com’ has also been taken down. The operators are charged with crimes related to online piracy, including... Read More
Google Says Mocality Kenya’s Database Was Publicly Available
We reported last week that Mocality Kenya accused Google of stealing its database of businesses and reaching out to those businesses while promoting Getting Kenyan Businesses Online as a Google-Mocality effort. In a statement to the UK’s ‘The Register’ Google says: “We’re aware that a company in Kenya has accused us of using some of their publicly available... Read More
