Lulzsec!

Forde said:
Quick question: is it really that easy to hack into all these major companies? There isn't anything solid in place to stop this? Or is it a retroactive type of security - ie: hack us, but then you'll go to jail for a long, long time.
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Not even the more secure computer systems are 100% hacker proof so a determined and good enough hacker could in theory get into anything.
 
Theres several groups working to try and find out more info about them, the problem is they are limited to being law abiding so are limited in what they can do...

Now if I was a less law abiding person I'd create some forum accounts on dozens of popular forums, post in lots of threads with my avatar being an image I found generated by a cgi script on a server upstream of their web server (they've been very careful not to leave such vulnerabilities on their own server)... ready made DDoS attack.
 
Rroff said:
Theres several groups working to try and find out more info about them, the problem is they are limited to being law abiding so are limited in what they can do...

Now if I was a less law abiding person I'd create some forum accounts on dozens of popular forums, post in lots of threads with my avatar being an image I found generated by a cgi script on a server upstream of their web server (they've been very careful not to leave such vulnerabilities on their own server)... ready made DDoS attack.
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yeah you would have to post in thousands of forums
 
Remember those times when a thread has "gone gold" with 10,000 people sitting hitting F5 waiting for the next bit of the story?

Don't claim to have come up with the idea and never used it myself.
 
CCP said:
Our taskforce concluded at 22:05 that neither the game servers nor the CCP infrastructure had been breached. Further, we can also confirm that some personal details such as users' credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident.
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I don't understand if neither network was breached how did they haemorrhage user information and personal details?
 
Its a phishing email not a genuine email - they've taken an official statement, twisted it a bit and mass mailed it with an account login link that goes to their servers instead of CCP.
 
arknor said:
so they just get sa friend to pod them and split the bounty... nice
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Sorry wasn't clear not quite like that - a couple of corps have offered sizeable ingame rewards to anyone who gets information on the people behind it. (Not sure it will accomplish anything or they could check the info was valid). Theres quite a sizeable hacking, griefing, etc. community within Eve so I'm guessing they are kinda trying to tempt those kinda people into doing something for them.
 
I really do hope they track these weirdos down. I think it's important because you can be quite sure a lot of them are paedos with no life, so we can kill two birds with one stone by tracking them through their hacking actions. Eve down again.
 
Well they have to really. If they basically **** around bringing down websites left right and centre and not a single one of them is even caught and punished what sort of sign does that send out?

It'll just give people the impression that the people charged with stopping this sort of thing are incompetant and even more people will start doing it. All you need to do is pretend you have a cause and you'll be put up on news sites the world over.
 
All this is going to do, if anything, is give the supporters for a closed/monitored internet more support.

I wonder if they may even be behind it.
 
TBH Law enforcement better get on it fast, coz while at first it won't have much impact if they keep it up, the end result is going to be considerably more than 50,000 eve players baying for blood and its not going to end well.
 
Bergkamp said:
I really do hope they track these weirdos down. I think it's important because you can be quite sure a lot of them are paedos with no life, so we can kill two birds with one stone by tracking them through their hacking actions. Eve down again.
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Brain hurt.
 
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