The battle begins: Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts

From Yahoo! News: Shortly after launching its “Operation Free Korea” initiative, notorious hacking group Anonymous has fired its first shots at North Korea. The group had demanded supreme leader Kim Jong-un resign, in addition to abandoning his nuclear ambitions and installing free democracy across the Asian country. Earlier this week, hackers belonging to Anonymous claimed to have stolen the passwords of 15,000 users from the North Korean propaganda website Uriminzokkiri. After its demands were not met, the group has begun to take down various properties belonging to Pyongyang. Both the Twitter and Flickr accounts belonging to Uriminzokkiri were compromised early Thursday morning. Anonymous members uploaded images making fun of Kim Jong-un to the photo-sharing page and mocked the country using its own Twitter   Original post on yahoo.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Starbucks paid no tax on UK earnings in the past three years. Is this OK? – Comment is free

The coffee chain company has used legal tax-avoidance tactics to pay as little as possible, paying £8.6m in taxes on a reported £3bn in UK sales since 1998, and nothing in the past three years. Is this…   Original post on guardian.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People – David Rohde – Business – The Atlantic

Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely.   Original post on theatlantic.com    Comments on reddit.com