MI5 And MI6 Websites Attacked By Assange Protesters

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On September 4, 2012 by Tom Brewster 0

Both the MI5 and MI6 websites were down for around an hour this morning, as Anonymous UK claimed hits on the two intelligence organisations in protest at the treatment of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ...

An Anonymous spokesperson told TechWeekEurope today the online protests were simply there to supplement the action outside the embassy, where Assange’s supporters have gathered, many in Anonymous masks.

“We have a ground force – as in street protest – then the hackers and DDoS crew for online stuff,” the spokesperson said. “It might not help like all protests, but gives us a voice via the web and what we are unhappy about.

“We have found way to circumvent the government’s new security and we are testing different methods” ...

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/mi5-mi6-assange-anonymous-91291

[struggle4progress]

1. ... WikiLeaks also confirmed in a tweet that the UK's Ministry of Defence has also been taken down,

allegedly by pro-Assange protestors. Tweets also claimed that both the MI5 and MI6 websites were down for around an hour this morning, as Anonymous UK claimed that these were in protest at the treatment of Assange ...

Pro Assange movement sees attacks on Swedish and British government websites
Dan Raywood
September 04, 2012
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/pro-assange-movement-sees-attacks-on-swedish-and-british-government-websites/article/257269/

[randome]

4. The 'treatment' of Assange?

Let's see, a lengthy appeals process followed by bail conditions and all due reviews.

And what does Assange do? Runs away again, this time to the Ecuadorian embassy. Yeah, the U.K. is totally responsible for Assange's actions.

[hack89]

2. I guess symbolic victories are important in the PR wars. nt

[HooptieWagon]

3. Hopefully that won't delay your check. Nt

[struggle4progress]

6. "Anybody who disagrees with me must be paid to do that!"

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5. Hacktivist steals data from UK police websites

Lone attack embarrasses forces
By John E Dunn

September 03, 2012 — Techworld — A hacktivist has successfully stolen data including email addresses from three UK police websites in an attack apparently in support of Wikileaks' Julian Assange.

Published on Pastebin under an 'OpFreeAssange' banner, the data taken from three police sites - Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire Constabularies, and police.co.uk - was fairly low-level by recent breach standards.

The most significant included email addresses, account passwords and PINs of police staff working on the Safer Neighbourhoods scheme. IP addresses were also exposed but most of the harm will be simple embarrassment ...

http://www.csoonline.com/article/715336/hacktivist-steals-data-from-uk-police-websites

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Bravo for them. Non-violent resistance against the spies and torturers.