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The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack

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iMPERVA has recently released a report on the attack patters followed by the Anonymous group. The report gives following insights on the Anonymous campaign

  • The process used by Anonymous to pick victims as well as recruit and use needed hacking talent.
  • How Anonymous leverages social networks to recruit members and promotes hack campaigns.
  • The specific cyber reconnaissance and attack methods used by Anonymous. hackers. We detail and sequence the steps Anonymous hackers deploy that cause data breaches and bring down websites.

The report also provides some risk mitigation steps that organizations can follow to protect against attacks

The full report is available for download here

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The Anonymous hacker collective twitter handle is being followed by more than half million people on twitter.

All these followers may not be supporting the Hacktivism by the Anonymous group, however most of them believes that it is the right place to get the faster and uncensored news about the hack attacks.

For Anonymous it is a good mile stone that it can mobilize the ideas to this many people by just a tweet. For example, the response to the MegaUpload arrests and the take down by the authorities Anonymous were able to launch a large campaign against the authorities through Twitter.

What is your thoughts on why people follow Anonymous?