Blog Posts Tagged with "Patriot Hackers"
Meet a Cyber Special Ops Warrior: th3j35t3r
June 05, 2012 Added by:Laura Walker
Although the Jester is often described as a cyber vigilante, his operations tend to steer shy of retributive justice and drive more toward disruption of enemy operations. His targets are researched, specific, and his mission is consistent. There is also the psychological component to PWNing the enemy...
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Patriot Hackers, Cyber Vigilantes, and Shot Placement
May 25, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Governments need to get a handle on this. If they want patriot hacker units, then they will have them and they will be controlled. As opposed to the Batman vigilante model that we now have here. If they did this, there would be plenty of volunteers and it might be a good thing...
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Patriot Hackers: GET OFF MY LAWN!
April 18, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Do something constructive instead of destructive and inhibiting. You never know what you are stumbling about in. You could be ruining operations that lead to arrests or actionable intelligence. Think about it before you go all Charles Bronson and then a Pastebin dump about it...
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Patriot Hackers: Stand YOUR Ground - Not Mine
April 16, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
Let’s not replicate the sins of our Governments. Let’s not aggravate the problems Governments face. I don't disregard the threats radicalization online brings. I'm suggesting Cyber Vigilantism is not a movement we want to support by throwing our Western weight behind it...
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Jihadi Sites Fall Down, Go Boom... Again
April 08, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
At first I thought that players in the patriot hacker movement may have been involved, but it seems more so now that all points to a concerted action by governments. The hacking of the sites likely was done via bad installs of PHP and SQL on the boxes that the databases resided on...
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You’ve Been Phished Without an Email or a PDF
March 12, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems that someone is making a full sized driftnet for information on those who would like to sign up as well as discuss the INSCOM Cyber Brigade. On the surface like I said, this looks all well and good, but once you start to poke at it though, you get some strange answers...
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China’s Rise from Hacking To Digital Espionage
June 06, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
China's Dark Visitor movement of the 1990′s has morphed into a government espionage wing. What was once a loosely affiliated group of patriotic hackers has been honed by the Peoples Liberation Army into a force to be reckoned with on the stage of digital espionage and data theft...
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Patriot Hacker The Jester's Libyan Psyops Campaign
March 29, 2011 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Libyan Psyops Campaign? The Jester appears to be performing some kind of a bit.ly-obfuscated intermediary-based code injection to plant articles in the The Tripoli Post and The Malta Independent reporting that Gaddafi's troops are suffering from low morale and deserting their posts...
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Did WikiLeaks Hacker The Jester Pull Police Raid Hoax?
December 02, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
The Jester was angry enough with militants recruiting for jihad and about the WikiLeaks disclosures to launch a DoS attacks on their sites, so why was he not very peeved about an impostor using his name to scam money? The logical conclusion might be that The Jester himself is the hoaxer...
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Hacker "The Jester" Reports Raid By Law Enforcement
December 01, 2010 Added by:Headlines
There are unconfirmed reports that infamous anti-jihadi hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r), who earlier this week claimed responsibility for a denial of service attack that temporarily disabled the WikiLeaks website, was the subject of a search and equipment seizure by law enforcement...
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WikiLeaks Suffers a Second More Powerful DoS Attack
November 30, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
The WikiLeaks Twitter account displays the messages, "We are currently under another DDoS attack," and "DDoS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second," which dwarfs the 2-4 Gbps attack perpetrated by self-proclaimed "patriot hacker" known only as The Jester (th3j35t3r)...
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The Jester Hits WikiLeaks Site With XerXeS DoS Attack
November 29, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Infamous hacker The Jester is claiming responsibility for a DoS attack that disabled WikiLeaks hours before the release of thousands of documents. The WikiLeaks Twitter account said, "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," for several hours on Sunday...
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Hacker Releases Second Video of Enhanced XerXeS DoS Attack on Apache Vulnerability
March 11, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Infosec Island has once again gained exclusive access to a video demonstration of the XerXeS DoS. This new video shows a little more of the XerXeS dashboard, and reveals even more about the attack technique – watch the text box on the left as Jester mentions “Apache” for the first time outside of our private conversations.
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Exclusive Video of XerXeS DoS Attack
February 22, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Infosec Island has gained exclusive access to a video demonstration of the XerXeS DoS attack as it is unleashed on the Taliban website www.alemarah.info, and carried out by infamous patriot hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r).
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Jester Unveils XerXeS Automated DoS Attack
February 10, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anti-jihadi hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r), continues his campaign against militant Islamic websites, and now reveals the development of an automated version of his DoS attack, which he calls the XerXeS project.
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More Talks with Anti-Jihadi Hacker The Jester
February 04, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anti-jihadi hactivist The Jester (th3j35t3r), the self-proclaimed Nicest Hacker in the World, has returned for part two of our conversation concerning his campaign of intermittent disruption of militant pro-jihad websites.
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