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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable says that all reviews on the platform will no longer be fully anonymous starting May 22nd and will now show members' profile pictures and first names. "At OpenTable, we strive to build a community in which diners can help other diners discover new restaurants, and reviews are a big part of that," reads the OpenTable email seen by BleepingComputer.
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Update November 09, 17:19 EST: A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service attack. Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.
Pro-Kremlin groups Anonymous Sudan, Killnet and Clop have other motivations than just hacktivism as they widen their attack field beyond political targets. The June 19 attack against the European Investment Bank may have been a salvo aimed at thwarting financial pipelines supporting Ukraine's war effort, although the motives of the threat groups are still subject to speculation, experts say.
"A simple way to send a piece of shit in a box around the world," ShitExpress describes what is a prank web service where customers can purchase and deliver real animal feces to friends or frenemies located anywhere in the world. Co hacking forum and a well-known hacker who has previously stolen private data from companies like QuestionPro and Mangatoon.
Nestlé, which is to stop selling KitKats and other brands in Russia, says corporate data leaked online this week by Anonymous was not stolen nor all that useful. Nestlé told The Register the data is not real or sensitive, wasn't stolen, and was accidentally leaked by itself via one of its own websites.
US-based domain registrar Namecheap announced today that it will provide sites protesting the current regime in Russia and Belarus with free domains and web hosting. Namecheap has more than 1,700 employees across 18 countries and manages more than 14 million domains worldwide.
The EU's new directive will add new provisions regarding how domain registrars collect information from registrants and who will have access to said information. "In order to ensure the availability of accurate, verified and complete domain name registration data, TLD registries and entities providing domain name registration services should be required to collect domain name registration data. They should aim to ensure the integrity and availability of such data by implementing technical and organisational measures, such as a confirmation process for registrants," reads an amendment in a draft of the new EU legislation.
EUTNAIOA earlier leaked 180GB of data it said it siphoned from Epik servers, plenty of it detailing the activities of far-right groups such as The Proud Boys and the ridiculous QAnon mob. The hacktivist collective justified the release of stolen data on the grounds it exposed racists, and dubbed the operation: Epik Fail.
Media in the San Francisco area are reporting the arrest of a notorious former resident who allegedly skipped bail on hacking charges. Anonymous is perhaps best described as "a hacking group that wasn't" - a moniker that could be, and was, claimed by almost anyone with an internet axe to grind.