When you think about anonymous threats to your business, you probably haven’t thought about a dispersed online collective taking down your web presence in the name of Internet justice–or just for the the lulz. That is, you haven’t thought of Anonymous. But Anonymous has certainly thought of the businesses below, and wreaked temporary havoc. Here are five campaigns that Anonymous waged against businesses.
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If you use Gmail, and your Google mail didn’t work starting yesterday, you may be one of the 120,000 or so users left stranded by a Gmail outage. Engadget has more: If you’ve got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so… Read more
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CC-by-sa Arun Ganesh, National Institute of Design Bangalore Four Americans have been killed by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. Jean and Scott Adam were a retired LA-area couple who had been sailing around the world since 2004. Their… Read more
As I was logging into my Amazon account today, a big fat Amazon Prime notice blocked my path. Here’s what it said: Way to splash into the streaming video fray, Mr. Bezos. $7 a month for 5,000 streaming movies and TV shows can only mean one… Read more
President Obama is slated to meet with software captains of industry this evening. The most notable players include Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eric Schmidt. A lot of media commentary seems to be treating this as a celeb gathering, or some… Read more
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