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The Russian Government offers ~4 million ruble (~$111,000) to the one who decrypts data sent over Tor , an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors, and others. MVD (Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs) issued an notice on July 11, named “ Perform research, code ‘TOR’ (Navy) ”, an open call for Tor-cracking proposals whose winner will be chosen by August 20. Anonymity, which is of everybody’s interest, specially of activists, journalists, researchers, whistleblowers, who uses Tor anonymity service to hide their activities, are now under great threat from both sides. Source: thehackernews

Silk Road website, also known as eBay for drugs, or Amazon.com for illegal drugs, was taken down, on 2 October 2013, by FBI. Silk Road was founded in February 2011. On June 1st, Gawker did a profile story on the site, which led to "internet buzz" and an increase in website traffic. On June 2011 U.S. Senator Charles Schumer asked federal law enforcement authorities such as the DEA and Department of Justice to shut down the website. Authorities seized the domain on October 2, 2013 as part of the arrest of the site's alleged owner. In February 2013, an Australian cocaine and MDMA dealer became the first person to be convicted of crimes directly related to Silk Road after authorities intercepted drugs he was importing through the mail, searched his premises, and discovered his Silk Road alias in an image file on his personal computer. Australian police and the DEA have targeted Silk Road users and made arrests, though with limited success at reaching convictions. On 1 ...

@AnonymousChina Hackers taking down and defacing various Chinese government web sites. Hack is the part of operation #GlobalRevolution by Anonymous.   The page is like other defacements with ASCII text, a message to the government in question and other Anonymous trademarks. This defacement is far more entertaining than past hacks, however, because they autoplay The Who’s classic song Baba O’Riley. Also it have one Chinese phrase, “患难见真情.” According to Google Translate, it means “ A friend in need is a friend indeed .”   Deface sites include :  http://www.qnwqdj.gov.cn/ http://www.dzwqb.gov.cn/ http://www.bbdj.gov.cn/ http://tygtzy.gov.cn/index.php   And with this, Hackers also leak the database info of http://www.wnpop.gov.cn/ and http://www.meda.gov.cn. Leaks are posted on Pastebin 1 and 2 .     Source: thehackernews.com