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As It Hits 1,000 Tweets, @LulzSec Explains Its Reign of Terror

Few hackers groups in the history of the internet age have claimed responsibility for attacks on so many prominent targets in such a short period of time.

“For the past month and a bit, we’ve been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the internet,” wrote LulzSec today,  ”attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.”
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WIKILEAKS

4chan’s Anonymous Army Takes Down MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, Joe Lieberman in Name of Wikileaks

Hackers from the infamous “Anonymous” group connected to the 4chan message board are attacking major institutions in retaliation for their treatment of Wikileaks. 

Operation Payback has taken down the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Joe Lieberman. 

These are Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS attacks. These cripple sites by overloading them with traffic, Read More