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  • Governments vs Hackers – Cyberwar Continues #AntiSec

    Governments vs Hackers – Cyberwar Continues #AntiSec

    The AntiSec Campaign which started a few days ago as a partnership between hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous, is a cat and mouse game between the hackers and the governments they target. One member of LulzSec, Ryan Cleary, a 19 year old from Wickford, Essex, UK, is suspected by authorities to be a leader of the group as well as being the brains behind the attacks on the FBI, CIA and Sony sites. He was arrested by British Police yesterday in a “pre-planned intelligence raid”. He has allegedly performed these acts from a computer in his mother’s house.

    In another part of the world, the Brazilian wing of LulzSec seems to be accomplishing their mission(s) quite well. In a tweet from Lulzsec, the group congratulated their Brazilian unit.

    [quote]Our Brazilian unit is making progress. Well done @LulzSecBrazil, brothers![/quote]

    Meanwhile, Anonymous has not been sitting idle. In a video released a few hours ago, the group urged anyone from around the world who believed in freedom of speech and anti-censorship of the Internet to stand up for their rights and join them.

     

    This cyber war seems to be heating up, with the hackers targeting governments around the world. We shall keep you updated on the action as it happens. Stay tuned.

  • Anonymous and LulzSec Announce New Campaign

    Anonymous and LulzSec Announce New Campaign

    The two most famous hacker groups in recent times have united in a campaign which they call AntiSec. The targets include banks, government organizations, and other high profile targets. They are urging hackers from around the world to unite to steal and leak classified documents, e-mails, and other information. [quote]We hear our #Anonymous brothers are making progress with #AntiSec, we also have reports of many rogue hacker groups joining in. :D[/quote]  the group tweeted a few hours ago.

    The campaign seems to have hit its first official target target today. The website of UK based Serious Organised Crime Agency was down today. In another tweet, it appears pastebin, the text sharing site appears to be down. LulzSec suspects the UK Government to have perpetrated an attack against the site as the group uses it to distribute materials. They tweeted:[quote]#DearGovernment did you DDoS @Pastebin b/c of this pastebin.com/9KyA0E5v #AntiSec or is that b/c of us reading it?[/quote] When we visited the website, this is what we found:

     

     

    LulzSec is a group that recently targeted the CIA, the FBI, and Sony among others. The group seems to want to embarrass their targets just for kicks and are speculated to be an offshoot of Anonymous.

    Anonymous is a group that targets governments and organizations for political reasons and mostly in the support of freedom of speech. In the past they have targeted the governments of Iran, Turkey and Egypt. They have also targeted Sony for the company’s legal action against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, and Paypal, MasterCard and VISA after they removed their services from the WikiLeaks website which enabled the site to receive donations.

    Stay tuned for more news on the on-going cyber war.

  • SEGA – The Latest Victim of Hackers

    SEGA – The Latest Victim of Hackers

    SEGA Corp, makers of games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Comic Zone, was the victim of a large scale attack on its Sega Pass website. The database of its Europe based website has been hacked and the personal information of all its 1,290,755 registered users has been stolen.

    On Friday, the company sent an e-mail to all the affected users, who are mostly based in Europe and North America, that their member’s e-mail ids, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained, however no payment details were compromised as the company used external payment providers. The company also warned users that if they used the passwords for other online services then they needed to change them immediately.

    No hacker group has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack but LulzSec, the group behind the recent attacks on Sony, the FBI and CIA websites among others, had this to say:

    [quote]@Sega – contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.[/quote]

    These attacks leave us wondering about the motives of these hacker groups. Are they trying to improve online security or is this just an in-your-face I can do whatever i want type raid?

  • Sony’s woes continue; Sony Pictures hacked by Lulz Security ; Data Stolen

    Sony’s woes continue; Sony Pictures hacked by Lulz Security ; Data Stolen

     

    Sony is dealing with a bad year. After several cyber attacks already in the past month, this time around Sony Pictures was attacked by Lulz Security (laughing at your security since 2011) and they claim to have stolen the personal information of over 1,000,000 users. The attackers claim that the information was stored in plain text format in plain sight in and required just an SQL injection.

    The group has already revealed 20,000 email / password combos of unfortunate users, along with 20,000 Sony music coupons, and the admin database for BMG Belgium employees.

    Sony should soon be opening job positions for Cyber Security experts, get your CV’s ready.

  • NOW : Sony BMG Greece hacked

    NOW : Sony BMG Greece hacked

    Sony is crying foul, with repeated attems at breaking its security have come into light, Several PSN attacks and other subsidiary attacks later. Now, Sony BMG in Greece is the next target. An anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, including the usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered on SonyMusic.gr.

    If you are a user of SonyMusic.gr, it is highly recommended that you reset your password. Expect that any information you entered when creating your account may be in the hands of someone with malicious intent, and keep a close eye out for phishing attacks

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  • Sony’s Security continues to fail, Subsidiary So-Net Entertainment attacked

    Sony’s Security continues to fail, Subsidiary So-Net Entertainment attacked

    According to The Wall Street Journal hackers have accessed the customer accounts of Sony subsidiary So-net Entertainment Corp, an ISP, and have stolen about $1,225 worth of redeemable gift points. This after the massive breach of Sony’s Playstation Network which caused a loss of 12.3 million credit card numbers from the networks database.

    Sony said the So-net hacker tried to break into its systems more than 10,000 times before he or she was able to successfully log-in. The intruder was able to access 201 accounts, and he or she stole the redeemable points from 128 customers.

    “Although we can’t completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue, the likelihood is low,” said So-net Entertainment spokesperson Keisuke Watabe, noting that the style of attack was different.

  • iPad 2 Already Jailbroken, Yet no final release date!

    iPad 2 Already Jailbroken, Yet no final release date!

    The Dev-Team and other members of the iPhone community, mainly Comex and CHPWN have displayed their abilities and the new iPad 2 is already jailbroken two days after its release. As always there is no information on when they will release this jailbreak to the public. Stay tuned

    [@chpwn @comex]

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