2. Anti-war hacktivism is leading to digital xenophobia and a more hostile internet / Political action in the digital age -- 10 years later, what did LulzSec mean for cybersecurity / Cooper Quintin -- A decade since the 'Year of the hacktivist,' online protests look set to return / Vasileios Karagiannopoulos -- What is anonymous? How the infamous 'hacktivist' group went from 4chan trolling to launching cyberattacks on Russis / Tom Huddleston Jr. -- Original cult of the dead cows members keep it 'wacky, weird and wild' to celebrate Joseph Menn's newest book / Hannah Diaz -- 2. Hactivists at war. Hacktivist groups and the Ukraine War -- The hacker group anonymous has waged a cyber war against Russia: how effective could they actually be? / Jennifer Medbury and Paul Haskell-Dowland -- Russian printers juiced by hacker antiwar messages / Damien Black -- NB65 hackers attacking Russian orgs in Ukraine retaliation / Drew Todd -- Who are the Lapsus$ hackers and what do they want? / Danny Palmer -- Hacktivism is back and messier than ever / Matt Burgess -- Russian 'Hacktivists' are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine / Matt Burgess -- Anti-war hacktivism is leading to digital xenophobia and a more hostile internet / Cooper Quintin -- 5. FBI seizes website used by notorious ransomware gang / Surveying different kinds of hacktivism form different countries. Hacktivists seek to aid Iran protests with cyberattacks and tips on how to bypass internet censorship / Sean Lyngaas. Cyberattacks on Taiwan started several days before Pelosi arrival / Jonathan Greig -- The politics and power of Latin American hacktivists Guacamaya / AJ Vicens -- Environmental hacktivists publish 2 terabytes of mining company emails / AJ Vicens -- 4. The new cyberthreats. The threat of hacktivism and other cyberattacks -- Security news this week: attackers keep targeting the US electric grid / Andy Greenberg -- School cyberattacks, explained / Alyson Klein -- Schools are getting hit hard by cyberattacks: What can they do about it? / Frederick Hess -- Ukraine hacktivism fights threaten open-source software / Joseph Marks -- Hacktivism and DDoS attacks rise dramatically in 2022 / Dan Lohmann -- Hacktivists are back / Aaron Schaffer -- 5. Responding to hacktivism. Civil rights and cybercrime -- Hacktivism: a social cause or a cybercrime? / Paulius Ilevic̆ius -- The dangers of hacktivism: how cyber operations by private individuals may amount to warfare / Stephan Kolossa -- Hacktivism: social cause or cybercrime / Tim Sandle -- FBI seizes website used by notorious ransomware gang / Sean Lyngaas.
Summary:
Looks at articles, political speeches, essays, and research on the issue of hacktivism or the act of misusing a computer system or network for a socially or politically motivated reason. "This volume of The Reference Shelf explores recent events and controversies in the world of hacktivism, from cyberattacks by Anonymous on Russian computer systems after the invasion of Ukraine to the doxing of Supreme Court justices by pro-choice group Ruth Sent Us."-- Publisher's website.
Series:
The reference shelf, 1948-6820 ; volume 95, number 2
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