Thursday, March 15, 2012

Anonymous operating system prompts security warnings

More than 26,000 people have downloaded an operating system which members of the Anonymous hacker group claim to have created.The software is based on a version of the open-source operating system Linux and comes outfitted with lots of website sniffing and security tools.The "official" Anonymous group has distanced itself from the software.In a widely circulated tweet, AnonOps claimed the operating system was riddled with viruses.The operating system is available via the Source Forge website - a well-known repository for many custom code projects.The 1.5GB download is based on Ubuntu - one of the most popular versions of the Linux operating system. The software's creators say they put it together for "education purposes to checking the security of web pages (sic)".t asked people not to use it to destroy webpages.Soon after the operating system became available, the AnonOps account on Twitter posted a message saying it was fake and "wrapped in trojans". var