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Lulzsec teams up with Anonymous to target governments and banks
NINJA PIRATE HACKER GROUP Lulzsec has joined forces with the hacktivist group Anonymous in a global operation targeted at governments and banks.
The duo launched Operation Anti-Security today, declaring "unremitting war" on the "freedom-snatching moderators" of the internet. They vowed to fight both the government and what they called "whitehat security terrorists", persumably referring to genuine security outfits like Sophos, which has been highly critical of Lulzsec as being immature and lacking "moral spine".
Lulzsec and Anonymous called on others to support their efforts, suggesting hacking government and banking websites. They particularly encouraged the use of the word "Antisec" as digital or physical graffiti in order to spread the message behind attacks.
Both groups have gained both support and criticism for a number of recent hacks, but this is the first time they have teamed up to take down a target. They revealed that their top priority is to steal and leak classified government information, particularly emphasising the banking industry. They also promised to break through any attempts to censor them.
Lulzsec has been extremely active over the past few weeks, hacking Sony and several other gaming companies, using Distributed Denial of Serivce (DDoS) attacks against the US Senate, International Monetary Fund and CIA web sites, and uploading 62,000 email addresses and passwords it acquired.
There appeared to be no real purpose behind those attacks other than the fun of it, but there is a clearer objective with Operation Anti-Security, targeted at those that oppose internet freedom. It's understandable why this has gained the support of Anonymous, which has been a primary supporter of the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks.
Lulzsec also targeted the FBI-linked Infragard Connecticut web site, which is now offline. It used SQL injection, a relatively simple form of hacking, to compromise over 1,000 passwords belonging to FBI-affiliated members, claiming that many of these people reuse the same password frequently. It chose not to reveal these passwords to the public. µ
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What bloody product allows passwords to be extracted in plaintext? Could we please have some names so we can blacklist the products?
to tome: A very smart way of saying what we already know. The US and it's allies will consider this an act of war. The attack directed at the FBI affiliates websites and the senate.gov website were done in retaliation to that very stance. Mentioned in both press releases.
It will not stop them, nothing will. It's like pissing in an ocean of piss... or trying to take the pirate bay down for longer than a few days~
This will end if they get bored or find a more worthwhile target. In my opinion shedding some light on the shady business of banking and finance is welcome. Too long have we ignored the clearly corrupt and socially bankrupt monetary system. For too long has the IMF and World Bank carved up developing nations for the profit of its members, for too long has this repulsive state of affairs been going on with little to no resistance.
So I say let the lulz ensue, in such dire times humour is sometimes all we can take from the situation.
Lulzsec and Anonymous may find this all so amuzing in disrupting internet systems around the world but what they dont realize is that they are way,way over their heads in not knowing or contaplating the consequences if they should do serious damage to national electronic systems. Beside the cost of millions of dollars already spent in trying to prevent these incurions into websites around the world, if intentionally or otherwise cause a system crash of a vital element in the economic or financial system that results in a worldwide system failure, will result in a determination by the government(s)that they are a enemy combatent,in the same manner as they consider al quada or any other terrorist organization. The US govt has already stated through the defense dept.that it will be considered an act of war, and if that be the case then,there will be hell fire to pay.Just a strong word of caution-
"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread"
"NINJA PIRATE HACKER GROUP[...]", this article is embarrassing Dean. DDoS is not a hack, it's purely bombarding a site (and low importance public ones at that) with hits until the server crashes.
The Mining Corporations are using employees jobs as hostages. whenever the Australian Govt asks them to pay a pittance in tax, they threaten to sack thousands. I suggest their H.R policy memo lists in regards to employment, Email lists to govt reps etc.
This will open a HUGE can of worms, help our Govt get us some money for our country and expose the corrupt sods standing in the way of such a process.
they should take down the great firewall of china. Shouldn't be that simple too, so it's a real challenge in contrast to bayby level SQL injections.
I really hope anonymous and lulzsec aren't part of another elaborate mind-game to fool people into accepting the government needs to take more control of the internet.