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Gremlinzzz
June 14th, 2011, 03:12 PM
Is nothing secure any more? There must be a school for hackers because there getting good.:D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13758361
sydbat
June 14th, 2011, 03:21 PM
Is nothing secure any more? There must be a school for hackers because there getting good.:D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13758361Obviously, the IT people on the US Senate site did not do their jobs very well.
Gremlinzzz
June 14th, 2011, 04:37 PM
Obviously, the IT people on the US Senate site did not do their jobs very well.

Its not just them.seems to be a wave of hacking.
Every time I read BBC there's another hacking story.
Seems to be a new wave of hacking even for fun!:)
SeijiSensei
June 14th, 2011, 05:03 PM
A lot of this activity seems traceable to the Sony vs. George Hotz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz) events. Certainly the initial attack on the Playstation Network was a consequence of this case, even if Anonymous denied involvement after their announcement (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20050310-17.html) targeting Sony, and the subsequent attacks (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/lulzsec-sony-again/) on sonypictures.com and other sites by Lulz seem derivative of the original PSN break-in.

The US government's recent decision to publicize its cyber-warfare activities is just another invitation to hacking. Look at this quote from the article:


Lulz Security posted files online which indicated they had been in the Senate network. However, none of the files appeared to be sensitive.

"We don't like the US government very much," Lulz Security said at the top of a release.

"This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?" it added.

There does seem to be a type of blindness among large organizations like Sony or the USG when it comes to hacking like this. They seem incapable of believing a bunch of dedicated hackers can break through what appears to be weak defenses on their sites. Many of these intrusions have been run-of-the-mill SQL injection attacks. You'd think Sony or the US Senate would have the resources to use security-conscious coders when they build sites these days. Apparently not.
swoll1980
June 14th, 2011, 06:55 PM
Is nothing secure any more?

Absolutely not!
pookiebear
June 14th, 2011, 07:18 PM
I thought it was their website that got hacked not the internal day to day network.
maybe I Read the article wrong
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/us-cybersecurity-usa-senate-idUSTRE75C5JI20110614
Spice Weasel
June 14th, 2011, 07:20 PM
I thought it was their website that got hacked not the internal day to day network.
maybe I Read the article wrong
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/us-cybersecurity-usa-senate-idUSTRE75C5JI20110614

Yeah, it's not that much of a big deal.

Still funny though. :)
Quadunit404
June 14th, 2011, 07:37 PM
Lulz Security (or LulzSec) I presume?

Well, yeah, it is them. They admitted to it on their site.
Dustin2128
June 14th, 2011, 08:06 PM
Hm... who wants to bet there'll be a "war on hackers" in a year or two?
SoFl W
June 14th, 2011, 08:16 PM
Obviously, the IT people on the US Senate site did not do their jobs very well.
Does any government employee do their job well?


Hm... who wants to bet there'll be a "war on hackers" in a year or two?
I don't know where I read it, but they want to declare a cyber attack an act of war.