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Media hacking is commonly employed for political purposes, by both political parties and political dissidents. A good example of this is the 2008 US Election, in which both the Democratic and Republican parties used a wide variety of different media in order to convey relevant messages to an increasingly Internet-oriented audience. [ 150 ]
Legion of Doom; LOD was a hacker group active in the early 80s and mid-90s. Had noted rivalry with Masters of Deception (MOD). Legion Hacktivist Group, a hacking group that hijacked the Indian Yahoo server and hacked online news portals of India. Level Seven was a hacking group during the mid to late 1990s. Eventually dispersing in early 2000 ...
In the infancy of the hacker subculture and the computer underground, [3] criminal convictions were rare because there was an informal code of ethics that was followed by white hat hackers. [4] Proponents of hacking claim to be motivated by artistic and political ends, but are often unconcerned about the use of criminal means to achieve them. [5]
Logrolling is the trading of favors, or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. [1] In organizational analysis, it refers to a practice in which different organizations promote each other's agendas, each in the expectation that the other will reciprocate.
January 9: Anonymous hacked and defaced the website of Fine Gael, an Irish political party. [35] February 5–6: The CEO of security firm HBGary announced they had successfully infiltrated Anonymous. In retaliation, Anonymous hacked and vandalized the company's website, took control of the company's e-mail, and took down the phone system.
Hacktivism is "the marriage of hacking with political activism". [28] Both actions are politically driven and involve using computers, however cyberterrorism is primarily used to cause harm. It becomes an issue because acts of violence on the computer can be labeled [ by whom? ] either [ citation needed ] cyberterrorism or hacktivism.
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The group first emerged in hacking operations against U.S. websites in January 2015 as the Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA). [1] In March 2015, the Islamic State published a "kill list" on a website that included names, ranks, and addresses of 100 U.S. military members. [12] A pattern of similar attacks emerged after the media coverage.