Hacking Season - AnonOps / Anonymous / Lulzsec

[tino]

who gives a f*ck if its irresponsible

this is where groups like wikileaks and lulzsec have failed themselves

nothing should be restricted

should just release everything

regardless of the problems it creates on the ground

its best there dont release everything because for all u know if they release everything it may have a negative impact on the economy, relationships betweeen countries,and that can impact me and everyone directly.

[Skola]

nah i recon they are saying innocent lives could be put at risk

nobody wants that

[Steven]

I agree with 

They should just go Fight Club style and let anarchy rule.

[Dynamat1325356908]

Lulzsec are making 2011 a little bit better for the world

[JOHN DOE]

they should be careful a couple of them dont get bodied and we will never know coz theyre 'anonymous'

doubt cia fbi et al want these guys knowing thier info

[Skola]

Would be dumb to release every bit of info they acquire.

exactly. considering they can hack, seemingly ANYTHING, makes sense to have some sort of strategy

Lulzsec are making 2011 a little bit better for the world

2011 has been the year of the digital revolution

to think

twitter has arguably done more good for the world than any regieme change or foreign intervention orchestrated by the west

a tool for change without the so much money spent or lives lost*

*lives lost yes but more people who chose to make a stand

[Lazy]

Mostly likely amongst those documents would be Natos hand in the construction to the start up to the Libyan conflict against Momar Kadafi

[time_bomb]

Mostly likely amongst those documents would be Natos hand in the construction to the start up to the Libyan conflict against Momar Kadafi

+ a whole bunch of stuff on israel/palestine

[Dubby]

Apparently Anon took down BNP.org.uk 2 hours ago, but its up again.

[His-RightPalm]

(Reuters) - Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.

Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one "state actor" behind the attacks but declined to name it, though one security expert who has been briefed on the hacking said the evidence points to China.

The long list of victims in the five-year campaign include the governments of the United States, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada; the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the World Anti-Doping Agency; and an array of companies, from defense contractors to high-tech enterprises.

In the case of the United Nations, the hackers broke into the computer system of its secretariat in Geneva in 2008, hid there for nearly two years, and quietly combed through reams of secret data, according to McAfee.

"Even we were surprised by the enormous diversity of the victim organizations and were taken aback by the audacity of the perpetrators," McAfee's vice president of threat research, Dmitri Alperovitch, wrote in a 14-page report released on Wednesday.

"What is happening to all this data ... is still largely an open question. However, if even a fraction of it is used to build better competing products or beat a competitor at a key negotiation (due to having stolen the other team's playbook), the loss represents a massive economic threat."

McAfee learned of the extent of the hacking campaign in March this year, when its researchers discovered logs of the attacks while reviewing the contents of a "command and control" server that they had discovered in 2009 as part of an investigation into security breaches at defense companies.

It dubbed the attacks "Operation Shady RAT" and said the earliest breaches date back to mid-2006, though there might have been other intrusions. (RAT stands for "remote access tool," a type of software that hackers and security experts use to access computer networks from afar).

Some of the attacks lasted just a month, but the longest -- on the Olympic Committee of an unidentified Asian nation -- went on and off for 28 months, according to McAfee.

"Companies and government agencies are getting raped and pillaged every day. They are losing economic advantage and national secrets to unscrupulous competitors," Alperovitch told Reuters.

"This is the biggest transfer of wealth in terms of intellectual property in history," he said. "The scale at which this is occurring is really, really frightening."

CHINA CONNECTION?

Alperovitch said that McAfee had notified all 72 victims of the attacks, which are under investigation by law enforcement agencies around the world. He declined to give more details.

Jim Lewis, a cyber expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies who was briefed on the hacking discovery by McAfee, said it was very likely China was behind the campaign because some of the targets had information that would be of particular interest to Beijing.

The systems of the IOC and several national Olympic Committees were breached in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Games, for example.

And China views Taiwan as a renegade province, and political issues between them remain contentious even as economic ties have strengthened in recent years.

"Everything points to China. It could be the Russians, but there is more that points to China than Russia," Lewis said.

McAfee, acquired by Intel Corp this year, would not comment on whether China was responsible.

STONE AGE

Vijay Mukhi, an independent cyber-expert based in India, says some south Asian governments, including India, are highly vulnerable to hacking from China as it strives to broaden its influence and strategic interests in the region.

"I'm not surprised because that's what China does, they are gradually dominating the cyberworld," he said.

"I would call it child's play (for a hacker to get access to Indian government data) ... I would say we're in the stone age."

An Indian telecommunications ministry official declined to say whether he was aware of the hacking on the government.

The UN said it was aware of the report, and that it has started an investigation to ascertain if there was an intrusion.

But Hwang Mi-kyung, with leading South Korean cyber security firm Ahnlab, cautioned against assuming China was the only one involved.

"I think we're beyond the stage where we should be focusing on the technical aspect of addressing individual attacks and instead we should think more in terms of what we can do policywise. For that, the involvement of Chinese government is very important," she said.

McAfee released the report to coincide with the start of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, an annual gathering of security professionals and hackers who use their skills to promote security and fight cyber crime.

In the scorching desert heat, they will meet to talk about a series of recent headline-grabbing hacks, such as on Lockheed Martin Corp, the International Monetary Fund, Citigroup Inc, Sony Corp and EMC Corp's RSA Security.

The activist groups Anonymous and Lulz Security have recently grabbed the spotlight for temporarily shutting down some high-profile websites and defacing others.

But attacks like Operation Shady RAT are far more costly and often undisclosed, as victims fear reputational damage or attention from other hackers. McAfee sees Operation Shady RAT as the tip of the iceberg.

"I am convinced that every company in every conceivable industry with significant size and valuable intellectual property and trade secrets has been compromised (or will be shortly), with the great majority of the victims rarely discovering the intrusion or its impact," Alperovitch wrote in the report.

"In fact, I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know."

(Additional reporting from Tom Miles in Geneva, Jack Kim in Seoul and James Pomfret in New Delhi, editing by Tiffany Wu, Martin Howell and Jonathan Thatcher)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/03/us-cyberattacks-idUSTRE7720HU20110803

[Skola]

McAfee learned of the extent of the hacking campaign in March this year, when its researchers discovered logs of the attacks while reviewing the contents of a "command and control" server that they had discovered in 2009 as part of an investigation into security breaches at defense companies.

2009?!?

¬.¬

from what ive read lately its not that the security tools we have are so inadequate

they are often just... not used

[djbmc]

Security experts saying china are to blame for all these cyber attacks are probably the same security experts who thought that Norwegian guy was al-quieda

[MARVELL]

Question everything. cos Thun's god Alex Jones is one who popped onto the world stage with so called "exposures" and he has later been found out to be part of them, hence the inside info.

Order out of chaos, these daemonz have infiltrated everything....and could just be some pseudo set up.

[Niall Ferguson]

Question everything. cos Thun's god Alex Jones is one who popped onto the world stage with so called "exposures" and he has later been found out to be part of them, hence the inside info.

Order out of chaos, these daemonz have infiltrated everything....and could just be some pseudo set up.

Credible source?

[MARVELL]

posted on here few times. you can check for yourself

it wont be on the BBC or CNN so 'credible' will have to be as you define it

in a nutshell... all you need to do is follow the money trail.. his wife is jewish from an uber zionist hollywood/banking family

all the adverts on his page at one point were from jewish owned companies

the director of those his false flag "exposure" movies is a business partner of some jewish hollywood exec edgar bronfmann or something like that

yet he has never linked or been able to see that America's thirst for blood and evil around the world to is all linked to Zionism

he uses words like Neo-con and the 'World elite' as a distraction to who showing who 90% of these people really are and the rest 10% that arent Zionist jews are pro zionists anyway.

it was when he started to cut people off or refuse to have the discussion about zionism that people started to clock on and his exposures began to unfold.

yes he has spoken about zionism but never with the same vigour as he does when he talks about so called "elites" as if we f*ck*ng dont know who these are.

about he snuck into the Bilderberg group meetings....with all the security around the place some fat c*nt with a camera will "sneak" in and film all that.he once said its not the jews that run and own hollywood but the arabs

[Niall Ferguson]

solid evidence itt

[MARVELL]

im not your researcher. thats what ive found out, if you oppose it tell me why. believe what you want,

[local]

solid evidence itt

not gona happen with him is it

all evidence would suggest alex jones is the biggest disinformation c*nt goin tho, talks about valid stuff but avoids alot

there are pages of criticism of him

depending on who you ask people will tell you he supports/avoids talkin about a variety of groups, jews, jesuits etc

if he was exposing anythin any1 cared about too much then he wouldn't be allowed such a platform

he's a millionnaire whos been on bare major tv networks (fox, bbc etc) expressin his views, don't sound like any enemy of the state, whilst plenty of truthsayers have their youtube accounts deleted this guy is all over it

if you believe in any NWO related conspiracy then the elites having controlled opposition seems an obvious tactic

steer people away from the truth, also deliberately act like a typical nutjob to scare off any potentials

[MARVELL]

from when people who really had information to expose have all been killed off

or former CIA man who's one of the US govt's biggest whistleblowers now called the man a joke

let alex jones draw in his sheeple while he rakes in $5m a year talking about "rich elites"

he's got your backs

[local]

im not your researcher. thats what ive found out, if you oppose it tell me why. believe what you want,

this is not how life works why are you always doin this

if you care about anyone believing the copy and pasted bullshit you constantly spout, then you back up your points with relevant evidence, if you don't care then no need to post, and if you insist on still posting, once someone challenges you don't always reply with this sh*t nonsense

socially awkward gay c*nt

[MARVELL]

listen you d*ckhead ginger fat c*nt..

me and thun have done this time and time before and ive posted evidence and information

nothing stops you from doing a simple google search.

gone are the days when information will be posted that wont be read OR any counter evidence presented

if you dont believe it then go f*ck yourself..

yes i have to copy and past because its not my information nor can anyone on here provide any personal information on him

so its always going to be 'copy and pasted' information.

socially useless rejected prick