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APPENDIX II. CHAPTER 6: ANONYMOUS TIMELINE265ApproximatedateTarget, hacktivity, and modus operandi(where available)Motivation as stated (where available)July 18, 2011 (Part of) Anonymous launches AnonPlus 155 Social networking site Googleþ bansaccounts of Anonymous members 156July 19, 2011July 21, 2011July 22, 2011July 30, 2011August 5, 2011August 6, 2011FBI arrests 14 suspected Anonymous members #OpPayback 158throughout the United States 157Anonymous claims to have intruded an NATOWeb site and to have garnered “about oneGigabyte of data from NATO now, most of whichwe cannot publish as it would be irresponsible” 159No statement of motivation foundAnonPlus, a social networking site launched by AnonPlus hacked 162Anons, is defaced by the Turkish hacker groupAkincilar (“Ottoman Raiders” 160 ) 161U.S. government security contractor, ManTechInternational Corporation, sees about 400 MB ofdata pilfered from their servers and subsequentlypublished on The Pirate Bay 163#OpAntiSec, FFF; ManTech is hired byamong others government agencies andNATO for providing cyber security; hencealthough no sensitive data were leaked, theintrusion and theft of company data appearto be embarrassing 164Shooting Sheriffs Saturday: Intrusion, data heist #OpAntiSec; in retaliation of July arrests 167(10 GB), and publication in more than 70 Sheriffsand law enforcement-related sites, most of whichwere hosted by Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing Serversand were launched in the past 24 h 165,166Web site of white supremacist organization, Blood #OpBlitzkrieg 169& Honour, suffers intrusion, theft and publicationof personal data (nazi-leaks.net) 168August 11,2011August 14,2011August 15,2011#OpPharisee seeks to disrupt the World Youth Dayin Madrid and slow down the associated Web sitesthrough DDoS attack 170#OpBART is launched and targets the Web site ofSan Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART);for the following day, protest in front of the CivicCenter (the place where Charles Hill was shot andkilled by two BART officers on July 3) is planned;in the following weeks, personal information onBART employees was leaked and Web sites weredefaced 172,173Vanguard Defense Hack (Vanguard DefenseIndustries (VDI)), U.S. Defense Contractor—intrusion and data heist (4713 e-mails, thousandsof documents) with subsequent publication 176#OpPharisee; seeks to bring attention tocases of sexual abuse of children byrepresentatives of the Catholic church 171#OpBART is in response to the shuttingdown of cell phone service 174 in order tocurb an ongoing protest about the violentdeaths of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant IIIand four others since the force’s inceptionin 1972, three of the shootings occurred in3 years between 2009 and 2011 175#OpAntiSec; VDI’s affiliation with lawenforcement agencies (FBI, Infraguard) 177August 23,2011Anonymous endorses the Occupy Wall StreetMovement in a video post on YouTube 178 Shared goals and objectives 179 Continued
266 APPENDIX II. CHAPTER 6: ANONYMOUS TIMELINEApproximatedateTarget, hacktivity, and modus operandi(where available)Motivation as stated (where available)September 1,2011September 13,2011September 17,2011October 14,2011Defacement of Web site of Texas Police ChiefsAssociation, intrusion, and data heist withsubsequent publication 180#OpAntiSec, #FreeAnon, in retaliation ofarrests 181German Anonymous launches OpSummerstorm #OpSummerstorm 183by taking down Web site of far right-wing politicalparty, NPD 182Magazine Adbuster’s campaign against corporate Occupy Wall Street Movement 185corruption on Wall Street takes to the street aftermonths of planning; the movement spreadsaround the world (Chicago, Toronto, London,Tokyo, Milan, Madrid, Stockholm) in the followingmonths, often protesters hide their faces behindGuy Fawkes masks 184Child pornography site, Lolita City, is ousted (via #OpDarknet 187DDoS) and information on 1589 registered users ispublished (via SQL-injection) 186October 15,2011October 24,2011November 7,2011November 15,2011November 22,2011November 23,2011November 29,2011#OpDarknet is launched and warns Web hostFreedom Hosting, which is believed to host childpornography 188Boston Police department Web site intruded;personal information is gleaned and published 190#OpBrotherhood Takedown launched targets theMuslim Brotherhood and repeatedly causesdowntime for their Web site (ikhwanonline) 1924Chan experiences downtime after DDoS attacksimilar to the ones it had experienced in April andJuly 194#OpPigRoast launched targeting the PoliceExecutive Research Forum (PERF) and police andsecurity officers who are reported to haveemployed extraneous measures; spearheaded byCabin Cr3w hackers 195Release of videotape featuring personalinformation on a security guard at UC Davis whois seen spraying peaceful and unarmed Occupyprotestors with pepper spray 197United Nations Development Program Web site ispilfered for 1000 e-mail addresses, usernames, andpasswords, which are subsequently released onPastebin by a team of TeaMp0isoN, Anonymous(p0isaNoN), and others 199The support of child pornography playsinto the hands of pedophiles and endangerschildren 189In protest of massive arrests and perceivedpolice brutality against Occupy Wall Streetprotesters on October 11, 2011 191#OpBrotherhood Takedown warns theMuslim Brotherhood, which is seen asthreat to the Egyptian Revolution 193No statement of motivation found#OpPigRoast; in protest of police brutalityexercised against protestors of the OccupyMovement 196In protest of extraneously harsh treatmentof protestors at UC Davis 198In protest of the UN’s role in westernimperialism and its failure to act in the faceof the atrocities committed in Rwanda,Darfour, Yugoslavia, Israel/OPT 200Continued
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ContentsPreface ixForeword xiIntrod
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CONTENTSviiHow Real-World Dependenc
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C H A P T E R1Cyber Warfare: Here a
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IS CYBER WAR A CREDIBLE THREAT?3sec
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