Occupy Wall Street plus Anonymous may equal city computer outages
Note to the Homeland Security Department: expect hackers to join forces with offline activists in 2012 for strikes on transportation computer systems and other critical networks. According to annual predictions released by security firm McAfee, anti-Wall Street demonstrators occupying parks in cities across the country and digital vigilantes associated with hacktivist group Anonymous may soon operate as “cyberoccupiers.”
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The predictions also posit that hacktivists will ramp up disclosures of government officials’ e-mails and other private data.