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LulzSec teams up with Anonymous; announces 'Operation Anti-Security'

Maybe we have seen just the tip of the iceberg. Leaving behind some rather bitter moments between other hacker groups, including Anonymous, LulzSec announced its decision to team up with Anonymous. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships. The hacker group wreaking havoc across corporations and government agencies among other organizations announced Operation Anti-Security moments ago in a post uploaded on Pastebin.
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LulzSec: Some love them, others loathe, yet others don't care about them

It has been a quite successful run for the anonymous hacker group Lulz Security, responsible for the security breach of corporations and government agencies including PBS, Sony, Nintendo, Fox, FBI affiliate Infragard, US Senate, and Bethesda Softworks among its high profile targets. The group still manages to tweet and communicate through Pastebin and their own website without a domain-seize threat from federal agencies. The virtually connected members of the group with the face of a caricature,...
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Hackers launch fake Microsoft security updates

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Microsoft Update replica is virus: Sophos

The virus Microsoft Update pops up only when users are using Mozilla Firefox on Windows and the users familiar with Microsoft Updates would know that they only happen on Internet Explorer.

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