Southeast Asian Sites Hacked Before Global Anonymous Protest [1]

Anonymous Philippines has called on the public to join the “revolution” today. “The government, in many ways, has failed its citizens,” the group said on its Facebook page [2]. “Fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words.”

In Singapore [3], a website owned by the city’s biggest newspaper publisher was temporarily shut yesterday after being hacked on Nov. 1. A video uploaded on the YouTube website last week showed a person in a Guy Fawkes mask threatening to bring down Singapore’s infrastructure to protest Internet regulations.

Anonymous Indonesia [4] said on its Twitter page [5] that it had infiltrated more than 100 Australian sites in response to reports of spying by Australia [6].

More detailed on: Bloomberg.com [7]