{"id":154460,"date":"2016-02-08T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154460"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T13:59:02","slug":"anc-government-on-anonymous-hack-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/154460-anc-government-on-anonymous-hack-list.html","title":{"rendered":"ANC Government on Anonymous hack list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker group Anonymous has set its sights on corrupt African governments, with South Africa high on the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberguerrilla.org\/blog\/opafrica-engaged\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>In a statement<\/strong><\/a>, the hackers announced that \u201cOperation Africa is an ongoing effort by several activists within anonymous who have begun collaborating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus of the operation is a disassembly of corporations and governments that enable and perpetuate corruption on the African continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a focus on child abuse, child labour, and Internet censorship within Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to fight until all of our brothers on the continent are freed from the shackles of corruption and greed,\u201d the hactivists said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven governments were listed as targets in the planned attacks: Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sudan and South Sudan, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/anonymous-turns-its-sights-to-africa-uganda-and-rwanda-targets-are-hit-first-500010.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Softpedia reported that<\/strong><\/a> successful attacks on companies and organisations in Rwanda and Uganda have already been executed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the hackers stick to the #OpAfrica list order, then South Africa&#8217;s government is next,\u201d the Softpedia report stated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/153705229?color=cccccc&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Htxt for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htxt.co.za\/2016\/02\/08\/anonymous-to-hit-african-governments-over-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">spotting the report<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/146135-should-your-internet-browser-history-remain-private.html\">Should your Internet browser history remain private?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/145671-this-is-when-sas-isps-hand-over-the-private-information-of-pirates.html\">This is when SA\u2019s ISPs hand over the private information of pirates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker group Anonymous has set its sights on corrupt African governments, with South Africa high on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":94721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[189,35,35336],"class_list":["post-154460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-anonymous","tag-headline","tag-opafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154462,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154460\/revisions\/154462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}