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Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Little, Brown and Company
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 0316213543
EAN: 9780316213547
Kindle: B007BGQ9A6
Hardcover / e-Book
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A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker
collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.
WE ARE
ANONYMOUS is the first full account of how a loosely
assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed
a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the
feds-and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring
them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into
the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented
access, drawing upon hundreds of conversations with the
hackers themselves, including exclusive interviews with all
six core members of LulzSec.
In late 2010, thousands
of hacktivists joined a mass digital assault on the websites
of VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal to protest their treatment
of WikiLeaks. Other targets were wide ranging-the websites
of corporations from Sony Entertainment and Fox to the
Vatican and the Church of Scientology were hacked, defaced,
and embarrassed-and the message was that no one was safe.
Thousands of user accounts from pornography websites were
released, exposing government employees and military
personnel.
Although some attacks were perpetrated by
masses of users who were rallied on the message boards of
4Chan, many others were masterminded by a small, tight-knit
group of hackers who formed a splinter group of Anonymous
called LulzSec. The legend of Anonymous and LulzSec grew in
the wake of each ambitious hack. But how were they
penetrating intricate corporate security systems? Were they
anarchists or activists? Teams or lone wolves? A cabal of
skilled hackers or a disorganized bunch of kids?
WE
ARE ANONYMOUS delves deep into the internet's underbelly to
tell the incredible full story of the global cyber
insurgency movement, and its implications for the future of
computer security.
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