Lulzsec merge

jester` wrote: »

Just to clarify for some people, this guy could just be a young and naive guy who got pulled into a "hacking community" and was asked to run a program from his computer to take part in a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against the organizations that have been recently targeted by groups like LulzSec. Another situation could be he accidentally installed a virus on his computer, and his computer was used as a zombie in a botnet to aid in performing DDos attacks. A botnet is controlled by a third party.

He could have been arrested due to his internet traffic showing someone on his connection performing attacks against the targets. The police now need to perform forensic analysis on his computer media looking for evidence to either convict him, or clear him of charges.

This is going to happen more and more as groups like LulzSec recruit people to help with their cause. People who do not realize they could be committing a crime, and just think they are taking part in something fun, until they get a knock on the door.

paddydriver wrote: »

Have a check here and see if worth bothering:

https://shouldichangemypassword.com/

Over the last two weeks, my company, Unveillance, has been the target of a sophisticated group of hackers now identified as “LulzSec.” During this two week period, I was personally contacted by several members of this group who made threats against me and my company to try to obtain money as well as to force me into revealing sensitive data about my botnet intelligence that would have put many other businesses, government agencies and individuals at risk of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

In spite of these threats, I refused to pay off LulzSec or to supply them with access to this sensitive botnet information. Had we agreed to provide this data to them, LulzSec would have been able to grow the size and scope of their DDoS attack and fraud capabilities.

Plain and simple, I refused to comply with their demands. Because of this, they followed through in their threats – and attacked me, my business and my personal reputation.

LighterGuy wrote: »

Lets be honest, a large percent of hacking always has some alterior motive.
Its all twisting the reason why. Like, hackers saying they "hack" only after something "unethical" a company did. Its all bs.

Theres a personal gain for every action we do.

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I'm glad they're doing it, to show people that the organisations we trust to keep our private information safe are not reliable. In fact, they don't take online security seriously at all.

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I'm not daft enough to use the same password in any two places so it wouldn't happen. Re-using passwords is lazy, too lazy to spend 5 minutes learning a better method. Anyone who does this deserves what they get tbh.

dlofnep wrote: »

Nonsense. Most people use the same password out of convenience. If a burglar breaks into a house with a weak lock, does the home-owner equally deserve it?

The reality is - Lulzsec irresponsibly released usernames and passwords for 60,000 people. It's irrelevant how weak or strong their passwords were - they personal information was compromised, and their personal e-mails scoured by thousands of scumbags with ulterior motives.

A 19-year-old charged with hacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court has heard.

Ryan Cleary, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into online hacking group LulzSec.

His counsel told City of Westminster Magistrates' Court he suffers from the form of autism, along with agoraphobia.

AOL: While you may have been secretly hoping for some juicy memos akin to The AOL Way, what we actually have is a text file that begins: “The purpose of this document is to provide the AOL Network Engineering Staff, Management and any other pertinent persons a detailed review, analysis and recommended ‘best practices’ document for the implementation of layer 4 through 7 switching configurations.” – it’s an incredibly technical document.
AT&T: A large .rar archive includes a huge number of internal documents related to AT&T’s LTE rollout. It includes meeting memos, emails, media reports, PDFs, Powerpoint presentations and more.
Battlefield Heroes: This text file appears to be a list of account details for over 550,000 users of social game Battlefield Heroes.
FBI Being Silly: This text file includes the output of a URL on the FBI website. We’ll admit to not knowing the technical significance of why this is ‘silly’ as yet.
Hackforums.net: This appears to be 200,000 user details for Hackforums.net in a .csv file.
Nato-bookshop.org: Similarly, this appears to be 220,000 user logins for a NATO online bookshop (the URL currently redirects to the main NATO site).
Evidence that LulzSec hacked the US Navy website: An image is included showing the phrase “Pablo Escobar AntiSec” inserted multiple times on a list of Navy salary grades.

Office networks of corporations: A text file seemingly listing IP numbers of internal Corporate networks, including Disney, EMI and Universal.

Email login details supposedly for a number of private investigators: Self-explanatory.
User login details for “Random gaming forums”: It’s unclear which forums.
“Silly routers”: A list of IP numbers for routers with passwords set to either ‘root’ or ‘admin’.