Anonops #7: Meer is beter

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)persecute-anonymous/
NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.

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Interview with Anonymous ( Anony_ops OR Anon_Central ) : The Hacker News ~ http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/interview-with-anonymous-anonyops-or.html

Anonymous is the political movement of change for the 21st century. Anonymous can and certainly will accomplish what many other political and peace movements of the past could not. When corruption, destruction and mayhem strikes from governments or corporations it is the goal of anonymous to awaken that entity and the public that a change must occur. We must understand that the Anonymous who strives for political change and world peace must be free to work without the mistrust and misdeeds of others who tarnish their good work. Anonymous is the gift we have been waiting for. Honest and trustworthy persons working hard on our behalf for the betterment of mankind.The Anonymous ,Need of 21st century,

Let’s Talk with Anony_ops ,Now known as Anon_Central on Twitter :

THN : Who is Ryan and what his matter with Anonymous.
Anony_ops : Ryan was a network administrator and unreliable like many others. Basically, we knew Ryan would explode one day. He was like the Yellowstone Caldera, he occasionally had little outbursts and some people who knew him from before warned us that he'd had massive eruptions in the past.

THN : Do you think there are more people like Ryan trying to break the Unity of Anonymous?
Anony_ops : Yes. We have had lots of guys like him in the past and I bet there are still some lurking. But they will not do what he did. In my opinion what he did was stupid and it didn't achieve anything.

THN : Is Anonymous or supporters of Anonymous behind the Sony Hacks?
Anony_ops : Anonymous IRC (AnonOps) is not involved in the Sony hacks although since being Anonymous, many people can create their own bases (cells) and work on their plans. So maybe Anonymous is involved in it or maybe not? We will never know. But I can tell you that they definitely took advantage of the whole OpSony situation. What I would suggest is that whenever Anonymous does something big, we brag about it. The fact that we denied it is a strong indicator that we didn't do it - if we had succeeded in breaking into their servers, we would have been gloating about it all over the internet.

It was quite clear that no one knew what was going on with Sony and Sony blamed us for their shitty security intrusion. Further, the people that actually participated in the intrusion saw that they could use Anonymous as a scapegoat but we would have kept the "Anonymous" tradition and not have left our motto in a single file, we would have left it in something along the lines of 9001 files. So to answer your question, we want a apology from Sony. They have no credible proof that the offenses were committed by "Anonymous" only what some copy cat left there causing confusion in the reports. Because of that we were subsequently harassed by a misguided and misinformed Sony who then started clogging up our servers.

Quote: <evil> some people will take advantage of it for their malicious shit.

THN : Tell us something about the Spanish Revolution
Anony_ops : You better ask this to Spanish Anons, I have no right to answer this because I'm not the right person. Sorry about that.

THN : What are the other operations recently born in various parts of world?
Anony_ops : There are over 9000 operations which are on-going right now. Some are #OpGreece, #OpSpain, #OpSpain, #OpMexico, #OpColombia etc.

Visit our IRC for more details.

THN : Is there any core team of Anonymous or is your every decision and action independent?
Anony_ops : There is no core team of Anonymous. If you are pointing towards Network Operators then well, there are just network operators and they manage all the tech stuff. They don't get involved in Anonymous' work and operations except to keep IRC channels free from trolls, spammers and bot attacks. Our decisions and actions are based upon people's will and teamwork. What we do in IRC is communicate with each other, form a plan and get as many people involved, of course anonymously, and we all vote on a specific action. Seems simple? It's NOT. lol So, our every action is a collective decision.

THN : Everyone knows that Anonymous is against injustice, corruption, and abuse of government power. How much are you satisfied with your own effort regarding this great responsibility?
Anony_ops : I am very much satisfied with what I am doing. What I do is carry the information and expose it to the public which otherwise would be very difficult for the public to get. You can call me a bastard Anon or whatever. I don't give a shit. We only do it for the Lulz. Anonymous is not a secret anymore, in times of pain and suffering, your ignored neighbor could be your helping hands and a light of hope. I think Anonymous represents hope for mankind because people have had enough with these criminal organizations, establishments and governments. They are fed up with their laws and wars. They've sacrificed enough. It's time for people to unite and act as one and what I'm doing is playing some part in that. So I'm very proud. I wish everyone could become Anonymous and serve their fellow brothers and sisters. Being an anon is being yourself first then sharing whatever you can.

THN : Anonymous are basically Activists. Are hackers also supporting you to make it Hacktivism?
Anony_ops : Yes. They work independently and sometimes under certain circumstances they work within the hive. As you well know, aside from the public rally's, Anonymous has also taken part in many online operations, most of which needed the use of hackers to accomplish what was needed. A great deal of Anon's submit themselves to the LOIC Hive, faxing and other methods but some websites, like the US Chamber, needed more then that, which is where the hackers have come in. The fact that they do this is to further our strength as Anonymous, and many of them, whether they have help from the Anon's or they do it single handed, will give full credit to Anonymous, because they feel the cause is just. So yes, to answer your question, hackers are supporting us and with every new operation it gives us a stronger grasp on the "Collective" that is Anonymous.

THN : What are the other issues on your list that may become the next Revolution?
Anony_ops : Operations are dependent upon their motives and their importance. Anyone's free to start any operation but valid ops with valid reasons are supported by all Anons and that's how they move forward.


THN : The issue with NATO and does Anonymous plan something against NATO ?
Anony_ops : In my opinion NATO is just following the footsteps of the Pentagon idiots and the IRC (people) are yet to decide the action to take against them. But we won't fire first!

THN : Major Security Breaches of 2011 are related with Anonymous. Is this diverting the style of Anons work?
Anony_ops : There are so many anonymous cells now that no one can keep track of them. But one thing is for sure, the smegma is out of the bottle... try stopping it. Anonymous is worldwide from every continent and every country. There are literally 100’s of IRCs which are now dedicated to anonymous. I really don't know what the future holds for Anonymous but what I can tell you for sure is I will be tweeting about them.

THN : Any message for the World from THN Platform?
Anony_ops : This is to all human beings on this planet: Share and keep information free because it is our only life line to the future. To the crooks in governments and corporations I can only say, you’re done. There are no more secrets. You can’t hide from Anonymous. We know what you are doing and we have made it our mission to expose you. People from time beginning have fought injustice but they haven’t had the right weapons. We do now. Remember this:

WE ARE ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS IS LEGION
WE DO NOT FORGET
WE DO NOT FORGIVE
EXPECT US

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LulzSec posts new 'hotlines' for anonymous hacking requests

Hacker group LulzSec on Saturday (Manila time) posted new numbers for its “request line" where it accepts anonymous hack requests, after claiming that its initial numbers got suspended.

The group’s new numbers, posted on its Twitter account, indicated it may be getting calls from the United States and United Kingdom.

“Our numbers got suspended. Try our new numbers | UK +44 020 8133 9723 | USA (209) 690-7925 | lulz-killers don’t like the lizard talks," it said.

LulzSec, which claimed credit for attacks on Sony and the Central Intelligence Agency, initially set up a request line, featuring what appeared to be a phone number in Ohio.

Also, the group continued with its hacks "by request," claiming to take down tribalwars.net and hackforums.net. Both sites were online as of 1pm on Saturday, however.

"These are kind of lame targets, but we're just doing them from requests. Someone, somewhere, is getting their lulz fulfilled today!" LulzSec said.

Meanwhile, the group clarified that it is not at odds with hacktivist group Anonymous, which has also claimed credit for attacks on several government websites.

“To confirm, we aren’t going after Anonymous. 4chan isn’t Anonymous to begin with, and /b/ is certainly not the whole of 4chan. True story," it said.

Also, the group claimed its members “screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction."

In a manifesto posted on its website, LulzSec admitted having enemies, but said these are mainly gamers. It also insisted its release of unencrypted usernames and passwords is “funny."

“This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone’s Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister’s shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can’t secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it," it said.

“This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims," it added. — TJD, GMA News

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anonops AnonOps
Attention #Media: about #Lulzsec and #Anonymous, we are not at war. We are bros of teh internetz. Also, /b/ != Anonymous.
17 Jun

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This is the first in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal

Each of us has made mistakes in our lives - woeful errors that we've been forced to learn from at great personal cost. Blessedly, those painful experiences are typically private affairs. Tears are spilled. Mea culpas are issued to those we've wronged, then we, the folks we hurt and the storm clouds move on.

For an unfortunate few, however, blunders go viral. Their mistakes fuel evening news segments and column inches in the pages of leading newspapers. Millions queue up to watch them on YouTube and they get turned over for laughs by late night comedians. Think about lonely Congressman Weiner or that poor woman who, distracted by her cell phone texting, flopped into the fountain at a Kentucky mall.

Aaron Barr, the former CEO of security firm HBGary Federal, is one of those unlucky few. No fountain-flopper, Barr is a respected authority on computer security whose mistake was to openly speculate on the identities of members of the online hacking group Anonymous, then watch as events spun gruesomely out of his control. Infuriated by what they interpreted as an attempt to out them, Anonymous hacked HBGary's servers and made off with tens of thousands of messages from the company's e-mail server, which the group then posted online. Anonymous's preemptive strike put the inner workings of HBGary up for public view. That begot countless other stories - not all of them accurate - as reporters poured over the contents of HBGary Federal's correspondence, Wikileaks style. Their digging turned up troubling communications about the company's plans to assist the U.S. government and various other Beltway interests with online reconnaissance. Before it was all over, no less than Comedy Central titan Stephen Colbert riffed on the controversy. And, not too long after that, Barr tendered his resignation from HBGary Federal.

Since then, Barr has kept his hand in the IT security game, but he's also kept a low profile. On the other side of the fence, Anonymous and related groups, like LulzSec, have become emboldened by their success in the HBGary Federal attack, launching similar attacks on Sony Corp. and Monsanto, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Public Broadcasting System, the federal police in Spain, the government of Turkey and other targets. There have been some arrests, but the core leadership of both Anonymous and the closely related LulzSec remain free.

But the unfortunate events of this Spring haven't bowed the former CEO. And the events of the last four months have, if anything, made him seem prophetic. More than ever, Barr's call for the IT community to focus attention on the individuals behind cyber attacks - not just the technical details of the attacks - rings true. In one of the first interviews he's given since the hack of HBGary Federal in February, Barr talked, by phone, with Threatpost editor Paul Roberts about the hack of HBGary Federal, Anonymous, LulzSec and why most security investments are misplaced.

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Submitted by Commander X (not verified) on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 6:05pm.

Wow, where to start !



"You can't release 250,000 sensitive documents into the wild and think you're doing good for society. I don't think you can, because there's no way you can vet all 250,000 documents for whether there's a need to release a specific document and what the blow back to that doc might be."

Barr just doesn't get it. The "blowback", i.e. serious damage to the government being exposed, is THE POINT of the disclosure ! The whole idea is to seriously weaken these governments through disclosure as part of an over all shift of power FROM the governments and TO the people. Any State that fails to grasp this will be destroyed in this war.



And why is there no mention of the fact that his dox of Anonymous was 95% incorrect, thus exposing 100's of completely innocent people to being falsley accused of being associated with Anonymous ? Why is there no discussion of the morality of this idiot spying on private citizens and their online activities ?



This man is an amoral fool, he deserved what was done to him. This article can safely be ignored.



Commander X

Peoples Liberation Front

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Ook Sega slachtoffer van hackers

AMSTERDAM - De online gamedienst Sega Pass is gehackt. Dat laat gameontwikkelaar Sega weten.

Van gebruikers zijn e-mailadressen, geboortedata en versleutelde wachtwoorden gestolen. De hackers hebben niet de hand kunnen leggen op betaalgegevens van gamers.

Sega weet niet hoeveel mensen de dupe zijn geworden. Het online systeem, waar gebruikers van Sega-games kunnen inloggen, is offline gehaald. De wachtwoorden van alle gebruikers zijn gereset.

Eerder werden Nintendo en Sony slachtoffer van een groep hackers. Gegevens van miljoenen gebruikers werden daarbij gestolen.

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cazlab will mockridge
"Incoming 614-@LULZSEC calls now redirect to #HBGary. You take care of the horde while we're gone @AaronBarr, thanks mate. Bye for now" #LOL

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trelayne Rojan Seth
To understand why #HBGary is being targeted by #Lulzsec : http://is.gd/8wC1eI

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LulzSec en Anonymous werken samen

Laatste update: 20 juni 2011 09:33 info AMSTERDAM – Hackergroep LulzSec gaat samenwerken met activistengroepering Anonymous. De operatie genaamd Operation Anti-Security richt zich op het openbaar maken van overheidsinformatie.
Foto: Thinkstock Dat blijkt uit een verklaring van LulzSec dat de afgelopen weken bekend werd door aanvallen op de servers van Fox, Sony, de CIA en tal van andere websites.

LulzSec wordt omschreven als een aftakking van Anonymous. De groep zou bestaan uit voormalig leden van de activistengroep die zich onder meer heeft bemoeid met de opstand in de Arabische wereld. Zo werden websites van de overheden Egypte en Tunesië aangevallen door Anonymous.

AntiSec

In de verklaring van LulzSec worden andere aanvallers opgeroepen zich aan te sluiten bij het initiatief. De groep vraagt zelfs om de term AntiSec middels graffiti in het straatbeeld te verspreiden.

Ook wil de groep de term op het internet bekendmaken.

Overheidsinformatie

“Het stelen en lekken van geheime overheidsinformatie heeft de prioriteit”, zo schrijft LulzSec. "Doelwitten zijn banken en andere hooggeplaatste sectoren. Als geprobeerd wordt onze actie te censureren, zullen we reageren met meer aanvallen.”

Onder de verklaring staat een viertal links waarvan Wikileaks er een is. Of de organisatie verbonden is aan de actie is echter niet bekend.

De operatie lijkt een overgang te zijn van het stelen en publiceren van gebruikersnamen en wachtwoorden naar het onthullen van gevoelige informatie die overheden liever geheimhouden.

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Salutations Lulz Lizards,

As we're aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it's acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.

Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.

Whether you're sailing with us or against us, whether you hold past grudges or a burning desire to sink our lone ship, we invite you to join the rebellion. Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by profiteering gluttons. Your hat can be white, gray or black, your skin and race are not important. If you're aware of the corruption, expose it now, in the name of Anti-Security.

Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.

It's now or never. Come aboard, we're expecting you...

History begins today.

Lulz Security,
http://LulzSecurity.com/

Support: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
Support: http://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
Support: http://wikileaks.ch/
Support: http://anonyops.com/

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Hackers use Flag Day to protest Federal Reserve
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Hackers belonging to a group called "Anonymous" wanted to make a statement Tuesday about America's banking system. They pushed for protests in public spaces and online.

Wearing masks and holding signs, a small protest group answered an online call to make Flag Day a time to speak out against big banks.

The group is calling for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to step down, saying he is not doing enough to fix the federal government's ever-rising debt.

In fact, they want to dismantle the fed altogether and hand the authority to print money back to Congress.

"This is not what our forefathers intended for our currency system," one protester said.

"Anonymous" organized the demonstration with a widely circulated YouTube video narrated by a computerized voice.

The gathering it called for is just one of two prongs to this protest. Demonstrators would not talk about the other.

"I know nothing about the denial of service attacks on the website," a protester said.

The second prong of the protest is what experts at CNET compare to a digital sit-in. Instead of occupying a public space, protesters tried to occupy all the available bandwidth to the Fed's website in hopes of knocking it offline.

Tech writer Elinor Mills says in the past few years, so-called "hacktivists" have gathered enough volunteers to successfully bring down much bigger websites, including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal after those companies blocked donations to WikiLeaks.

"Any disruption or protest that they can -- online and offline; that's supposedly what they're after," Mills said.

By late afternoon, the Fed's website was still up -- but running slowly.

And though street demonstrators would not say if they took part in the online attack, one did say, "Maybe it's a good idea, I don't know."

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Anonymous announces "The Plan"

Anonymous has gone live with their war against the system called simply, "The Plan". This is a global movement and has three phases. We are just beginning phase one which is simple. PHASE 1: Better yourself. Spread the message. Be the message. Follow me below for more information.

"The Plan" 1 year. 3 phases. A world of change.
Share this message with everyone you can.

PHASE 1: Better yourself. Spread the message. Be the message.

*Educate yourself on the depths of the system, the functions put it place to inhibit true freedom as well as the mechanisms within the system that motivate the masses to subconsciously accept giving up those freedoms. The structures within the system that promote division within the people of the countries of this world and the injustices that are placed upon the people.

*Spread the message. Share this video and the website with everyone you can. Make your own videos, songs, art, graffiti etc... spreading the word that we are here, the movement is taking hold. Expect us.

*Learn ways that will allow you to break free from the system. Start small and implement them in your daily lives. This will be implemented as a focus of Phase 2 as well, escalating what you have learned.

*ANON hackers - begin supporting the movement. This is a calling to all of you for the aid of this movement. Low-priority targets are your engagement. Assist with the movement and spread the message of "The Plan".

The resistance is here.
Expect us.

ANONYMOUS: "THE PLAN" IS NOW LIVE. PHASE 1: INITIATED. WAR AGAINST THE SYSTEM.

I urge everyone to take the ten minutes to watch the movie and give it some thought. What we're doing now is not working. We are running out of time. Right now we have the entire world's momentum with us, let's not waste that. There is much work to be done and we need your help to make this planet a better place for everyone to live on. What we need is Solidarity. The people of Greece, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Spain, Italy, Syria, Bahrain have all decided they no longer can abide by the flagrant disregard the Oligarchy has for the workers of the planet. The time is now for Global Solidarity.

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http://www.volkskrant.nl/(...)-aanval-op-CIA.dhtml

Een 19-jarige jongen is gearresteerd op verdenking van het hacken van websites, door de Britse politie en de Amerikaanse FBI. De man zou verantwoordelijk zijn voor digitale aanvallen op onder meer de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst CIA en de Amerikaanse Senaat.

Ook elektronicaconcern Sony zou tot het doelwit van de hacker behoren. Scotland Yard maakt vandaag bekend dat de man gisteravond in een woning in het zuidoosten van Engeland werd opgepakt. Hij wordt in Londen ondervraagd.

De man zou lid zijn van het hackerscollectief Lulz Security. Die groep eiste de digitale aanvallen van eerder dit jaar op. Volgens het collectief zijn de aanvallen bedoeld om aan te tonen dat de beveiliging van de websites niet afdoende is.

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YourAnonNews Anonymous
Ryan Cleary of #Wickford was the person arrested. Previously known for attempting to dox #Anonymous members. No real link to @Lulzsec.

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yvonneridley yvonneridley
BREAKING: Alleged computer hacker Ryan Cleary latest thetechherald.com/article.php/20… #anonymous #LulzSec

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Unconfirmed: Scotland Yard takes LulzSec member into custody (Update)



Update 3:

Via phone, we were told that the Metropolitan Police Service believes that this is a significant arrest.

When asked if the man in custody is connected to LulzSec or Anonymous, the person we spoke with said that his computer will be examined to determine if he is connected to any such group. Police will not release the man’s name, and had no other comments on the arrest.

Update 2:

The speculation continues. Talk online has named Ryan Cleary, as the 19-year-old arrested by the PCeU.

Earlier in June, Cleary was named in a Pastebin document as “a dissident hacker who attacked AnonOps and was subsequently ‘doxed’.” [Source] [Ryan’s alleged dox are here]

“After the Sony Fiasco led to a drop in support for Anonymous, LulzSec was likely invented to take credit for the hack ex post facto. LulzSec appears to be related to the Ryan Cleary incident, which has already been forgotten,” the document adds.

[ Note: AnonOps is the IRC network were those who associate with Anonymous will sometimes gather. Ryan was a network operator there.]

“Some accuse Cleary of hacking Sony. However, Cleary is not facing any criminal charges and there is no evidence that he exists. AnonOps hackers may have engineered a false flag attack against their own servers under the name of Ryan Cleary, in hopes that the Sony hack would be credited to him. LulzSec is simply the logical conclusion to this chain of events – a hacker group that breaks all the non-existent unwritten rules of Anonymous in order to regain traction after the failure of #OpSony.”

We were present for a chat that included Ryan, shortly after AnonOps was attacked.

Ryan claimed that OpSony and the attack on BMI were going nowhere until he added his support. This support came by way of 5-10,000 bots, out of an install base of 50,000 to pull from. In addition, he added that the use of LOIC to attack targets was just a scam for the public.

“During OpSony we had a maximum of 40 [LOIC canons],” Ryan told us. “The bot shit was kept secret because it'd be bad PR. If they knew it was bots instead of [LOIC], then what’s the point of the public coming in?”

The whole article can be seen here.

On Twitter, one of the names linked with LulzSec, Sabu, said that: "FYI all members of lulzsec are safe. ryan Clearly (sic) has little to do with lulzsec besides running irc.lulzsec.org."

A short time later, LulzSec's account posted: "Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?"

Update:

A contact at the FBI says that he anticipates that they will have additional information for the press later this afternoon.

Original Article:

Earlier this morning, Metropolitan Police Service announced that they have arrested a 19-year-old man in a planned intelligence operation. The timing of the event has led many in the media to speculate that the man in question is a member of LulzSec.

The arrest comes days after LulzSec launched a DDoS attack against the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) and the CIA.

The full statement from a Scotland Yard spokesman is below:

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested a 19-year-old man in a pre-planned intelligence-led operation.

The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group.

The teenager was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act, and Fraud Act offences and was taken to a central London police station, where he currently remains in custody for questioning.

Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material. These forensic examinations remain ongoing.

The PCeU was assisted by officers from Essex Police and have been working in co-operation with the FBI.

At this point, there is no confirmation that the person arrested is a member of LulzSec. However, as the statement said, he was arrested during a sting operation after attacks on intelligence agencies and international businesses.

This is why the media made an immediate jump to name LulzSec, as previously mentioned, they have hit both examples (Sony, FBI, CIA, SOCA) since they arrived in the public eye towards the end of May.

We’ll follow developments on this story and post more information as we get it.

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rj_gallagher Ryan Gallagher
Wow!!: #LulzSec hackers claim to have obtained 2011 UK census records of "every single citizen" + will release soon is.gd/1Qtb11

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http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=K1nerhk0

RC: irc.lulzco.org (channel #LulzSec | port 6697 for SSL)
BitCoin donations: 176LRX4WRWD5LWDMbhr94ptb2MW9varCZP
Twitter: @LulzSec
Contact us: 614-LULZSEC

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//Laughing at your security since 2011!



Greetings Internets,

We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census

We're keeping them under lock and key though... so don't worry about your privacy (...until we finish re-formatting them for release)

Myself and the rest of my Lulz shipmates will then embark upon a trip to ThePirateBay with our beautiful records for your viewing pleasure!

Ahoy! Bwahahaha... >:]

Cap'n Pierre "Lulz" Dubois

LINKS:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6467131/Bethesda_internal_data

BONUS ROUND! SENATE.GOV!
http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/senate.gov.txt

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Ross_Lawson Ross Lawson
It's outrageous that #LulzSec plan to release the census details online instead of through the official method: On a laptop left on a train.

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 19:09 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:

twitter:

LulzSec twitterde op dinsdag 21-06-2011 om 19:01:07 People should keep releasing fake LulzSec stuff. It helps filter out the peon masses from the respectable, fact-checking media outlets. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 20:24 schreef C_N het volgende:

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for sure it is

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 20:30 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Ik hoorde dat C_N zijn foto's altijd in scène zet

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 20:38 schreef C_N het volgende:

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ow ik wist niet dat dit een gesloten club was,

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nou dan ga ik er maar snel vandoor ..

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maar wel leuk om de verschillende gezichten te zien .

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 20:40 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Post er eens iemand anders hier is het weer niet goed

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 20:52 schreef David1979 het volgende:
Een fantopic voor zielige pubertjes die het leuk vinden om privegegevens online te gooien, tja

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 16:33 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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BarrettBrownLOL Barrett Brown
Computer-assisted disinformation is the next big thing. tinyurl.com/3r8erpm #opmetalgear

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http://wiki.echelon2.org:8090/wiki/Cubic_Corporation

Cubic Corporation is a US Military/Defence contractor, with subsidiaries including Cubic Defense Applications Inc, and Cubic Cyber Solutions, Inc. They wholly own cybersecurity corporations Abraxas and Ntrepid. Ntrepid provides Persona Management services to the US government in fulfillment of the contracts issued as part of US CENTCOM Operation Earnest Voice.

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The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded

War rages between competing factions within the hacker collective Anonymous after this weekend's drama-filled takeover of the main Anonymous IRC server network. That network, used by Anons to plan and conduct attacks, was taken over by one of its own, an IRC moderator known as "Ryan."

His attack has sparked a debate over the "leadership" of Anonymous.

Hacking the hackers

The main Internet chat servers used by Anonymous have been run by a group called "AnonOps," which provides communications platforms for the group. Pointing IRC clients at anonops.ru or anonops.net would connect anyone to the servers, where they could then join channels like "#OpSony" and participate in various Anon activities.

Though Anonymous is often described as leaderless, factions like AnonOps by necessity have a loose structure; servers must be paid for, domain names must be registered, chat channels must have at least some moderation. Ryan was one of those IRC mods, and this weekend he proceeded with an attack that seized control of the AnonOps servers away from the small cabal of leaders who ran it.

Those leaders include people with handles like "shitstorm," "Nerdo," "blergh," "Power2All," and "Owen"—and if you're paying attention, you'll remember that HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr had fingered Owen as one of three "leaders" of all Anons.

The most popular channel on the old IRC servers now says simply, "anonops dead go home." Ryan also put up a set of chat logs showing Owen and others reacting to the weekend's massive denial of service attacks against AnonOps that culminated in the server takeover. (In the transcript below, "doom" is one of the AnonOps servers.)

Owen -> SmilingDevil: we lost a numbe rof servers last night
SmilingDevil -> owen: we need some more security.
Owen -> SmilingDevil: dude
Owen -> SmilingDevil: it forcved level3 to stop announing a /24
Owen -> SmilingDevil: it was in the gbps range
Owen -> SmilingDevil: doom alone got hit with 1 gb
SmilingDevil -> owen: gigabit or gigabyte?
Owen -> SmilingDevil: all leafs went down
Owen -> SmilingDevil: add it all up
Owen -> SmilingDevil: yeah huge
SmilingDevil -> owen: we need a hidden irc server for the admins.
SmilingDevil -> owen: that only they know about
Owen -> SmilingDevil: um thats called the hub
Owen -> SmilingDevil:
SmilingDevil -> owen: did they take that too?
Owen -> SmilingDevil: but anyhow
Owen -> SmilingDevil: we suffered alot of damage

The "old" leaders released a statement this morning explaining what happened over the weekend and why IRC remained down:

We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named "Ryan". He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. So he organized a coup d'etat, with his "friends" at skidsr.us . Using the networks service bot "Zalgo" he scavenged the IP's and passwords of all the network servers (including the hub) and then systematically aimed denial of service attacks at them (which is why the network has been unstable for the past week). Unfortunately he has control of the domain names AnonOps.ru (and possibly AnonOps.net, we don't know at this stage) so we are unable to continue using them.

Not everyone buys the explanation. One Anon pointed out that the Zalgo bot in question is controlled by a user named "E," not by Ryan.

Second, Zalgo can only see chan msgs and msgs to zalgo. The net staff is saying (pretty much) Ryan used Zalgo to steal server passwords (false, I know server protocol) which were tranfered in channels in plain text for the to see (true).

Third: Take everything AnonOps says with a grain of salt. They're putting out lies and not telling the whole story.

Others pointed out that E and Ryan are friends and that E was actually recommended as an op by Ryan.

However it happened, the end result was that Ryan redirected some of the AnonOps domain names he had control over, he led an attack on the IRC servers with denial of service data floods, and he grabbed (and then published) the non-obfuscated IP addresses of everyone connected to the IRC servers. Ryan apparently also gained root access to the Zalgo network services bot, which is presumably how he harvested the non-obfuscated IP addresses, though it's not clear exactly what Zalgo did or how much access it provided Ryan.

Clashing factions

Ryan is associated with 808chan, a 4chan splinter site and apparent home of the recent denial of service attacks on AnonOps. Ryan is "DDoSing everything that he doesn't own with his band of raiders from 808chan," says one Anon.

The 808 brigade apparently valued big botnets, and made users prove their abilities before letting them participate. AnonOps had a more democratic ethos; anyone could show up, configure the Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack tool, and start firing at Sony or others.

"It's an open network where everyone, mostly newfags can join and not have to prove they're able to wield a botnet and can just join a channel of their choosing, fire up LOIC and hit some organization for reasons they believe are right," said one Anon.

Ryan's control of AnonOps extends to some of the actual domain names, including AnonOps.ru. This wasn't a hack; he was actually given administrative control over the domains some time ago by AnonOps leaders.

One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)

According to another Anon, the current fight was precipitated when Ryan's IRC credential were revoked. "You morons don't realize Ryan IS LEGALLY THE OWNER OF DOMAINS," he wrote. "Nerdo and Owen removed Ryan's oper, Ryan took domains."

Smoky back rooms?

Among Anons arguing over what happened this weekend, the key debate involves the issue of leaders. Anonymous also said it was leaderless and memberless, but is it? The AnonOps statement above claims that Ryan was angry at the "leaderless" structure of the group and wanted to set himself up as king; again, though, not everyone is so sure.

Owen, for instance, helps to shape the conversation and planning in IRC. One Anon complained privately to me that Owen has booted him from the IRC servers—and thus from the place where all the real work against Sony was taking place several weeks ago. "Owen has not only told me that he doesn't really give a shit about freedom of speech, he's also moderately against the action that's being taken on Sony," this Anon said.

Owen and others conduct some of their work in private, invite-only channels, which leads some Anons to suspect that the really important operations and hack attempts are only discussed in a virtual back room. As one Anon put it yesterday:

"Have you ever been in one of their invite-only chats? This is no bullshit. EVERYTHING is decided on them, the eventual course of the operation, the hivemind's target, the channel's topic, everything. Why all this secrecy? These invite-only chats have NO reason to exist. You want to keep out trolls? Turn on mute, and give voice to a few. At least we can see what is being written."

Others were even angrier. A former AnonOps member wrote:

From the fucking beginning (during the hack at Aiplex which started Operation Payback) there has been an secret club, an aristocracy in AnonOps, deciding how operations will play out in invite-only channels.

It's obvious, for they control the topic, the hivemind, the guides, every single thing behind the scenes.

I don't know if the Owen's current bureaucracy is to be trusted, or Ryan's new delegation (from 808chan!) is.

What I do know is that AnonOps no longer has a good reason to exist. The insane amount of power the channel operators wield, and the reputations gained by their NAMES, causes them to become dictator-like, as "power corrupts".

Why did we leave the comforts of the womb of anonymous imageboards, and end up in name-fagging circlejerks controlled only by a few? Why?

Anonymous, this is bullshit. Neither side, neither Ryan's coalition of hackers nor Owen's bureaucracy can be trusted.

Others argued against this equivalence. "Ryan was the dictator, not the one who decided to solve the dictator problem," said one. Another responded, "Lol, how do you know? For all you know, Owen and Ryan are just the classic generals duking out to take over."

For his part, Ryan told the UK's Thinq today that he shared the concerns over private decision making. Owen and the other leaders "crossed the barrier, involving themselves in a leadership role," Ryan said. "There is a hierarchy. All the power, all the DDoS—it's in that [private] channel."

But among those who backed AnonOps, one thing was clear: Ryan needs to get got. Anons quickly embarked on a mission to find Ryan "dox," and quickly unearthed what they said was his full name, his home address (in Wickford, Essex, UK), his phone number, his Skype handle, and his age (17).

On Twitter, some Anons began spreading the word that Ryan had "betrayed" Anonymous, and that he had done so "to mess up all after having stolen PSN credit cards." No evidence for this last assertion was provided.

As the old AnonOps team attempted to get a handle on what had happened—and after they switched to an Indian domain name—they expressed irritation with early media mentions ("fail reporting") of the attack.

"Some 'mainstream' media is calling this the 'insider threat,'" they wrote, "which isn't really a fair representation, AnonOps doesn't have any corporate secrets, its run by the people for the people on a basis of mutual trust. Drama happens almost 24/7, occasionally drama overspills the network.

"Also we must remind the press AnonOps DOES NOT EQUAL Anonymous, saying they are one and/or the same thing in a blog/article just makes you look stupid. AnonOps is just a IRC network and a few other services that ANYONE can use, its not the only place Anonymous gather, and unlikely to be the *last* (see Streisand effect)."

But will the AnonOps leaders ever gather on a forum they don't control? Ryan took great delight in posting the following alleged comment from Owen to another AnonOps leader: "yo odnt honestly think we're goign to some other irc where we have no control do you?"

Of course, Anonymous has always been about drama and "the lulz," so the current confusion may not even bother them that much; this is just par for the course. But it's certainly amusing to others.

"Lmao. You fucking twits can't even keep your shit safe," wrote someone watching the debacle. "This literally made me laugh out loud. Not lol, but laugh. You all are so stupid."

Further reading

Anons commenting on the news (anonnews.org)
Ryan's dump of AnonOps chats (sites.google.com)

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Overheid niet voorbereid op cyberaanval

De Nederlandse overheid is onvoldoende voorbereid op een cyberaanval van internationale omvang, die razendsnel een maatschappijontwrichtende crisis kan veroorzaken. Dat blijkt uit een grote oefening die de overheid zelf onlangs heeft gehouden.

Het AD schrijft vandaag dat uit de evaluatie van de oefening blijkt dat het de overheid vooral ontbreekt aan goede coördinatie. Ook lijkt zij slecht doordrongen van de ernstige gevolgen die een cyberaanval kan hebben. Zo kan zo'n aanval ertoe leiden dat hackers het betalingsverkeer platleggen. Maar ook vitale systemen als die van de luchtverkeersleiding op Schiphol of olieraffinaderijen in de Rotterdamse haven, zijn kwetsbaar.

Cybercrises
Bij de grote oefening Cyberstorm III werd nagebootst hoe in Nederland miljoenen computers in handen van hackers komen. Vandaag wordt de Tweede Kamer ingelicht over de resultaten.

Volgens wetenschappers waren de crisiscoördinatoren vooral aan het vergaderen en overleggen. Het ontbrak aan coördinatie en overzicht. 'Nederland is nog onbekend met cybercrises, dat was bij de oefening goed te merken,' zegt hoofdonderzoeker Marcel Quanjel in het AD.

Maatregelen
Staatssecretaris Fred Teeven schrijft de Tweede Kamer dat de overheid door de oefening is gewezen op de 'complexiteit van ict-crises'. Volgens hem zijn er al maatregelen getroffen. Zo komt volgend jaar het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum in bedrijf. Ook wil Teeven meer oefeningen.

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Hunt for hackers of US government sites leads to Essex teenager's bedroom

Police believe Ryan Cleary, 19, had 'significant role' in hacker group LulzSec which is thought to have attacked CIA website

Investigators believe a teenager arrested at his family home in Essex may have been a "significant" figure in a computer hacking group alleged to have staged attacks against websites belonging to the US government, the electronics giant Sony, and an elite British crime unit.

Scotland Yard cybercrime detectives were questioning Ryan Cleary, 19, over the attacks carried out by the LulzSec group, which mostly targeted websites belonging to institutions and companies in the US.

The events leading to the arrest of Cleary involved an investigation by British police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI's involvement, plus the nature of the targets, raised the prospect that Washington may seek the teenager's extradition to the US, just as it did in the case of UFO obsessive Gary McKinnon, a saga that is still ongoing.

LulzSec have attacked the websites of the CIA, the US senate, US broadcasters and, on Monday, the day of Cleary's arrest, the hackers bought down the website of Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

LulzSec is believed to have established itself as a formidable splinter group to Anonymous, the hacking group embroiled in the WikiLeaks fallout, with high-profile attacks on the Gawker website in December last year and a devastating assault on the US security firm HBGary in February.

Members of Anonymous claimed in emails to the Guardian that Cleary, though involved, was not the "mastermind" behind any hacking group. "He owned the server which LulzSec used to communicate using IRC [internet relay chat, a bit like instant messenger]."

UK records show that a company called Arcusvoice, which held domain names used to host websites, was registered to Cleary's home address in Wickford, Essex.

"Ryan Cleary was not a mastermind hacker," the email continued. "He could not keep his own personal information safe. He simply provided the means of communication, just like if two people send letters to each other, FedEx/Royal Mail/DHL are the providers of communication."

Cleary's brother, 22-year-old Mitchell, said: "He's not the sort of person to do anything mad or go out and let his hair down or do anything violent. He stays in his room – you'll be lucky if he opens the blinds, but that's just family, isn't it? I barely see him – I'm more of a football person – he's more of an inside person."

Mitchell said his brother had fallen out with people over WikiLeaks: "He used to be part of WikiLeaks and he has upset someone from doing that and they have made a Facebook page having a go at him."

James Rounce, a neighbour of Cleary, said: "They moved in about 10 years ago and have been pleasant neighbours. I think he had been away at university and had come back for the holidays or because he had finished his exams. You could tell he was very bright just from the way he spoke and presented himself."

LulzSec staged two types of attacks. One was hacking into websites, the other was effectively blocking a website from being used, called a denial of service.

As recently as May, the group attacked websites belonging to broadcasters, including Fox and the US public service broadcaster, PBS. LulzSec also claimed credit for an attack on the US X Factor website, which experts believe indicates the relatively young average age of the group.

Earlier this month, LulzSec declared its intention to break into government websites and leak confidential documents. Yesterday it dismissed claims it had staged an attack on the British census.

According to security experts, it is a small and close-knit team – although they probably do not operate in the same country or even time zone. The security firm Imperva believes there are just eight members, including one who orchestrated the attack on the US security company HBGary, and another who can call on the resources of a "botnet" of virus-infected PCs to attack any website on the net.

Researcher Rik Ferguson of security software firm Trend Micro said "it seems to be a tight-knit group – they don't let people join them, they just take suggestions from people of what to target for a hack next."

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LulzSec rogue suspected of Bitcoin hack

More than $9m of online currency was stolen in weekend attack on Bitcoin currency exchange that could cost members of Anonymous and LulzSec thousands of dollars each

ore than 400,000 Bitcoins – 6% of all the virtual currency presently in circulation – for an initial price of $17.50 each, which would have netted $7m at a constant price.

But the attempt to sell such a large volume of coins at once drove the value of the currency down almost to zero, before trading on the site was suspended.

More than 60,000 users' details were compromised in the attack and have since been posted publicly in dozens of places across the internet. Trading on the MtGox site has still not been reinstated since the attack, leaving the future of the fledgling currency in doubt.

Bitcoins are produced without the involvement of any governments or banks; instead, they are generated by using software (also called Bitcoin). The idea was created in 2009 by a Japanese programmer.

Bitcoins are not issued by a central authority, but instead generated by a mathematical algorithm after computers complete a certain number of complex calculations.

Some of most experienced members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacker collectives are believed to have botnets of more than 100,000 compromised computers.

If that many machines were set to work generating Bitcoins, they could create up to $7,500 worth a day for as long as Bitcoins trade at current levels – meaning members of the hacker collectives could be among the biggest losers if Bitcoins' value does not recover as and when MtGox reopens. In the hours before the hack, the total value of the currency in circulation was more than $150m.

Anonymity and security are the central propositions of the currency, which has attracted controversy after being used in sites selling drugs and pornography.

High-profile organisations accepting the coins include WikiLeaks and the US lobby group Electronic Frontiers Foundation, who have suspended their acceptance of Bitcoins in the wake of the hack.

MtGox says access to its site was gained after a financial auditor's computer was hacked, and insists its site was not compromised.

However, Amir Taaki, who runs the rival Bitcoin exchange Britcoin.co.uk, disputes this chain of events. Developers working on his site, which runs on much of the same software as MtGox, found a security hole several days before the hack was carried out. He says MtGox was notified publicly and privately of the issue.

"Due to the recent events at MTGox.com, we at Britcoin have decided to move our servers to a new location," read a Britcoin statement. "MTGox suffered an SQL injection [a form of hacking attack that creates direct access to databases and files] which means access to the site's funds were in the hands of the malicious hacker. As such, until we see evidence to the contrary, for security reasons we are assuming that MTGox has none of its clients' bitcoins."

Other senior coders in the Bitcoin community claim to have been offered the full database of MtGox users days before the hack was carried out. Though they had not verified whether the database was genuine, it came from the same intermediary who has been testing interest in selling or distributing details from the Sega Pass hack.

Members of Lulzsec, the hacker group whose alleged member Ryan Cleary was arrested in Essex on Tuesday, denied responsibility for the Sega Pass hack, as did several members of Anonymous.

The recent spate of hacks denied by both groups – neither of which usually seeks to hide from the limelight – raises the possibility of a third, as yet unnamed, group of hackers carrying out the attacks.

Lulzsec and Anonymous members stand to lose a significant amount of money if Bitcoins fail. Several members of both groups – speaking directly and through intermediaries – claim to know of others using thousands of hacked computers to generate Bitcoins.

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A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed

Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users

When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, he provided the American people with a warning.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

Sixty years later, the military-industrial complex has been joined by another unprecedented centre of what has increasingly proven to be "misplaced power": the dozens of secretive firms known collectively as the intelligence contracting industry.

Last February, three of these firms – HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico, known collectively as Team Themis – were discovered to have conspired to hire out their information war capabilities to corporations which hoped to strike back at perceived enemies, including US activist groups, WikiLeaks and journalist Glenn Greenwald. That such a dangerous new dynamic was now in play was only revealed due to a raid by hackers associated with the Anonymous collective, resulting in the dissemination of more than 70,000 emails to and from executives at HBGary Federal and its parent company HBGary.

After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depicted therein, I have revealed my summary of a classified US intelligence programme known as Romas/COIN, as well as its upcoming replacement, known as Odyssey. The programme appears to allow for the large-scale monitoring of social networks by way of such things as natural language processing, semantic analysis, latent semantic indexing and IT intrusion. At the same time, it also entails the dissemination of some unknown degree of information to a given population through a variety of means – without any hint that the actual source is US intelligence. Scattered discussions of Arab translation services may indicate that the programme targets the Middle East.

Despite the details I have provided in the document – which is also now in the possession of several major news outlets and which may be published in whole or in part by any party that cares to do so – there remains a great deal that is unclear about Romas/COIN and the capabilities it comprises. The information with which I've worked consists almost entirely of email correspondence between executives of several firms that together sought to win the contract to provide the programme's technical requirements, and because many of the discussions occurred in meetings and phone conversations, the information remaining deals largely with prospective partners, the utility of one capability over another, and other clues spread out over hundreds of email exchanges between a large number of participants.

The significance of this programme to the public is not limited to its potential for abuse by facets of the US intelligence community, which has long been proverbial for misusing other of its capabilities. Perhaps the most astonishing aspect is the fact that the partnership of contracting firms and other corporate entities that worked to obtain the contract was put into motion in large part by Aaron Barr, the disgraced former CEO of HBGary Federal who was at the centre of Team Themis's conspiracy to put high-end intelligence capabilities at the disposal of private institutions. As I explain further in the linked report, this fact alone should prompt increased investigation into the manner in which this industry operates and the threats it represents to democratic institutions.

Altogether, the existence and nature of Romas/COIN should confirm what many had already come to realise over the past few years, in particular: the US and other states have no intention of allowing populations to conduct their affairs without scrutiny. Such states ought not complain when they find themselves subjected to similar scrutiny – as will increasingly become the case over the next several years.

Barrett Brown
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 June 2011 19.39 BST
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Op donderdag 23 juni 2011 00:43 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Eeh man ik begrijp iets niet, waarom al die moeite terwijl er niemand reageert?

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FBI takes down legit sites in search of LulzSec

It looks like the blundering efforts of the FBI to try to pin down the likes of LulzSec have caused a bunch of legitimate businesses to go offline.

Reports are emerging that the bungling snoops raided a datacentre in the US yesterday and wandered off with a collection of hardware. The datacentre was run by Swiss firm DigitalOne, which its itself now offline.

DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow, was forced to email clients explaining the shenanigans. “This problem is caused by the FBI, not our company," he wrote. "In the night FBI has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server - we cannot check it.

“After FBI’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work.”

According to the New York Times, the FBI has teamed up with the CIA an other 'law' enforcement agencies around the world in an increasingly frantic attempt to track down LulzSec and its cronies.

In their efforts they seem to be causing as much mayhem as the hackers themselves.

Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)zsec9/#ixzz1Q349eQ6X

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Op donderdag 23 juni 2011 00:53 schreef AgentMoloch21 het volgende:

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Hoe weet je dat?

SPOILER

Om spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 22:54 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
Even een flashback, 10 mei:

Anonops #6: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties

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Een Ryan neemt een IRC over, en nu is een Ryan gearresteerd.

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19 year old Brit arrested for hacking - Ryan Cleary - has been in hacker feuds before

The 19 year old Essex boy who has been arrested by the British police on the request of the FBI has been embroiled in hacker feuds before.

Ryan Cleary of Wickford Essex has been taken into a London police station for questioning about cyber crime. The police will want to talk about the huge hack of Sony earlier this year, attacks on the CIA and a possible though unconfirmed hack of UK Census data in past few days.

So far the group believed to be behind the attacks - LulzSec have denied that Cleary is anything to do with them. They said on their official Twitter:

"Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here!"

Other places, state that he is associated with them and helps to moderate message boards for them.

It could be that Cleary has been turned over to the police by a rival hacker for upsetting other people in the hacking community. Looks like he did that a lot. He was fingered out by Anonymous in May 2011 for bad behaviour, and his personal details were published on a webpage by Anonymous as punishment for trying to force a change in the group's direction. Something that it seems he had been guilty of before back in 2008 when he was only 16, for attempting a DDos attack on Fourchan, the hackers' message boards site.

Even if Cleary isn't directly connected to LulzSec or Anonymous, the group's philosophy encourages other people to take part. So it's possible he or someone else could have acted separately to these main groups...

LulzSec in partnership with Anonymous have declared a widespread operation against governments called #AntiSec. This statement was put in pastebin, and has been tweeted by the official LulzSec account so we believe it to be genuine:

"Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood."

This is going to be great.

Looks like Cleary, was already guilty of pissing off Anonymous - which led to the spill of his personal details onto the internet

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Lulzsec hackers take crucial step towards getting laid


Lulzsec computer hackers scored an important victory in their bid to achieve sexual congress with a fellow human being, it emerged last night.

The Brazilian government joined the CIA and the US Senate as the latest victim of the group’s online antics, raising their profile to the point where insecure and emotionally damaged teenage girls might start to think they’re a bit ‘cool’.

Suspected LulzSec hacker 19-year-old Ryan Cleary was arrested in the UK on Monday night following an investigation by Scotland Yard, who told reporters that a “significant amount of crusty material” had been recovered from his bedroom and would now be subjected to forensic examination by officers wearing special gloves.

Mr Cleary’s family expressed disbelief that the self-confessed computer ‘enthusiast’ had anything to do with hacking.

His mother Rita, 45, said her son ‘lives his life online’ but she thought he had spent his time frantically masturbating in his bedroom like any other normal teenage boy.

She added that, as he was led away by police, he told her “whatever you do don’t go in the draw of my bedside cabinet – and I’m only looking after it for a friend!”

Lulzsec arrests

Experts are warning that the stereotypical ‘bad boy’ to which girls are historically attracted might be changing, with a shift away from the truant hot-hatch driving hoodie, to the pasty teenager with a 50MB Internet connection.

Social Anthropologist Sheila Williams told us, “What we are seeing is a definite move towards a sexual relationship for many of these so-called hackers, particularly for those with access to teenage girls with very low self-esteem.”

“If the FBI really want this problem to go away, they should just drop their investigations and put a fraction of that money towards hiring a crack team of highly-skilled prostitutes.”

“Trust me, these guys will no longer be a threat to national security from the very second they realise what a real breast feels like.”

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Op donderdag 23 juni 2011 02:31 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:

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Snap niks van het bericht. Wat moet er nou in zijn bed la gelegen hebben?

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Op donderdag 23 juni 2011 02:51 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:

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Vloeibaar opgeslagen?

En wat is er in dat bericht met onzekere.meisjes?

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Massive US-led spy operation on Arab world uncovered

A crowd sourced investigation dubbed Project PM has probed reams leaked emails involving US intelligence companies and uncovered a massive spy operation targeting social media and telecommunications in the Arab world.

The allegations, derived from 70,000 emails stolen from HBGary earlier this year, detailed a project dubbed Romas/COIN, to be proceeded by Odyssey, which could automatically analyse millions of conversations.

The following report has been republished with permission from Barrett Brown, Project PM.

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The new revelation provides for a disturbing picture, particularly when viewed in a wider context. Unprecedented surveillance capabilities are being produced by an industry that works in secret on applications that are nonetheless funded by the American public – and which in some cases are used against that very same public.

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Website NAVO doelwit van hackers

Een publiekswebsite van de NAVO is het doelwit geworden van onbekende hackers. De site die, geen gevoelige informatie bevat maar, onder meer een webwinkel voor digitale boeken herbergt, is inmiddels afgesloten.

Het bondgenootschap werd door de politie attent gemaakt op het potentiële gegevenslek. De NAVO sloeg de cyberaanval af door de website direct af te sluiten voor het publiek. Abonnees van de dienst zijn op de hoogte gebracht.

De verdediging tegen dit soort aanvallen staat hoog op de agenda bij de NAVO, en is aangewezen als ontwikkelingspunt. In de Estische hoofdstad Tallinn is een centrum ter verdediging tegen cyberaanvallen ingericht. Het centrum zorgt ook voor het herstel zodra hackers toeslaan.

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#anonops : Your Anon News • Greetings, members of NATO. We are Anonymous.: youranonnews.tumblr.com... http://bit.ly/k53Zfc #anonymous

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Greetings, members of NATO. We are Anonymous.

In a recent publication, you have singled out Anonymous as a threat to “government and the people”. You have also alleged that secrecy is a ‘necessary evil’ and that transparency is not always the right way forward.

Anonymous would like to remind you that the government and the people are, contrary to the supposed foundations of “democracy”, distinct entities with often conflicting goals and desires. It is Anonymous’ position that when there is a conflict of interest between the government and the people, it is the people’s will which must take priority. The only threat transparency poses to government is to threaten government’s ability to act in a manner which the people would disagree with, without having to face democratic consequences and accountability for such behavior. Your own report cites a perfect example of this, the Anonymous attack on HBGary. Whether HBGary were acting in the cause of security or military gain is irrelevant - their actions were illegal and morally reprehensible. Anonymous does not accept that the government and/or the military has the right to be above the law and to use the phony cliche of “national security” to justify illegal and deceptive activities. If the government must break the rules, they must also be willing to accept the democratic consequences of this at the ballot box.We do not accept the current status quo whereby a government can tell one story to the people and another in private. Dishonesty and secrecy totally undermine the concept of self rule. How can the people judge for whom to vote unless they are fully aware of what policies said politicians are actually pursuing?

When a government is elected, it is said to “represent” the nation it governs. This essentially means that the actions of a government are not the actions of the people in government, but are actions taken on behalf of every citizen in that country. It is unacceptable to have a situation in which the people are, in many cases, totally and utterly unaware of what is being said and done on their behalf - behind closed doors.

Anonymous and WikiLeaks are distinct entities. The actions of Anonymous were not aided or even requested by WikiLeaks. However, Anonymous and WikiLeaks do share one common attribute: They are no threat to any organization - unless that organization is doing something wrong and attempting to get away with it.

We do not wish to threaten anybody’s way of life. We do not wish to dictate anything to anybody. We do not wish to terrorize any nation.

We merely wish to remove power from vested interests and return it to the people - who, in a democracy, it should never have been taken from in the first place.

The government makes the law. This does not give them the right to break it. If the government was doing nothing underhand or illegal, there would be nothing “embarrassing” about Wikileaks revelations, nor would there have been any scandal emanating from HBGary. The resulting scandals were not a result of Anonymous’ or Wikileaks’ revelations, they were the result of the CONTENT of those revelations. And responsibility for that content can be laid solely at the doorstep of policymakers who, like any corrupt entity, naively believed that they were above the law and that they would not be caught.

A lot of government and corporate comment has been dedicated to “how we can avoid a similar leak in the future”. Such advice ranges from better security, to lower levels of clearance, from harsher penalties for whistleblowers, to censorship of the press.

Our message is simple: Do not lie to the people and you won’t have to worry about your lies being exposed. Do not make corrupt deals and you won’t have to worry about your corruption being laid bare. Do not break the rules and you won’t have to worry about getting in trouble for it.

Do not attempt to repair your two faces by concealing one of them. Instead, try having only one face - an honest, open and democratic one.

You know you do not fear us because we are a threat to society. You fear us because we are a threat to the established hierarchy. Anonymous has proven over the last several years that a hierarchy is not necessary in order to achieve great progress - perhaps what you truly fear in us, is the realization of your own irrelevance in an age which has outgrown its reliance on you. Your true terror is not in a collective of activists, but in the fact that you and everything you stand for have, by the changing tides and the advancement of technology, are now surplus to requirements.

Finally, do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent.

Your only chance of defeating the movement which binds all of us is to accept it. This is no longer your world. It is our world - the people’s world.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us…

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Dox everywhere: LulzSec under attack from hackers, law enforcement

Hacking group Lulz Security has found itself coming under attack from all angles, drawing unwanted attention from both law enforcement and other hackers groups. Though the group's antics have won it many fans who appreciate LulzSec's anti-establishment leanings, they've also earned plenty of enemies, and those enemies have started to fight back. So far, they've posted LulzSec's "dox"—the names, pictures, and addresses of the people claimed to be the ringleaders of the group.

Since LulzSec first gained prominence, pro-US hacker th3j35t3r ("The Jester") has worked to uncover their identities and embarrass them. th3j35t3r, who has made a name for himself by knocking pro-jihad Web sites offline, has butted heads with Anonymous in the past, opposing the faceless collective's support for WikiLeaks. He worked to disrupt the activities of the AnonOps faction—taking servers offline and revealing names of the participants. Since many of AnonOps' key players moving on to form LulzSec, th3j35t3r's focus has shifted accordingly.

th3j35t3r is staunchly pro-establishment, regarding the LulzSec Distributed Denial of Service attacks on the CIA Web site as terrorism, LulzSec members as bullies, and those who have suffered from LulzSec's antics as victims.

Another group claiming to side with LulzSec's victims and oppose LulzSec's campaign against security organizations are "Web Ninjas". Web Ninjas have posted chat logs and dox of a number of alleged LulzSec members.

LulzSec has also been taking heat from the anti-establishment side of the fence, represented by TeaMp0isoN_. TeaMp0isoN_ members don't care about the victims, don't deny their blackhat status, and don't like law enforcement or security companies. Instead, they're motivated by disdain for LulzSec's methods and public profile—they think that LulzSec are "scene fags." LulzSec's tools have been simple SQL injection and Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities, and botnet-powered Distributed Denial of Service attacks: in TeaMp0isoN_'s view, this is not enough to earn the label hacker.

Beyond publishing information about LulzSec team members, TeaMp0isoN_ defaced the Web site of LulzSec and AnonOps participant joepie91. joepie91's relationship with LulzSec and AnonOps has long been something of an oddity; he's open about his participation in the groups, but continues to argue that he does nothing more than talk, and takes no active role in these groups' illegal activities. Whether active or passive, TeaMp0isoN_ plainly regard him as fair game, and doxed him on Twitter.

Meanwhile, LulzSec has been doing some doxing of its own. In the immediate wake of the arrest of British teenager Ryan Cleary, LulzSec claimed he had nothing to do with their group, that position was later softened, with the acknowledgement that Cleary operated an IRC server that LulzSec uses. Claiming that "snitches get stitches", LulzSec then doxed a coupled of individuals whose leaks of private chat logs and other incriminating data apparently led to Cleary's arrest.

Law enforcement agencies aren't standing still, either. After his arrest on Monday night, British teenager Ryan Cleary has been charged by police with creating and operating a botnet and performing Distributed Denial of Service attacks against the Web sites of the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA, the UK's closest counterpart to the FBI), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). He faces a custody hearing tomorrow morning.

For the time being, LulzSec appears to be shrugging off the attacks, continuing to laugh, at least in public, at its accusers. The group promises that it will be publishing more stolen documents on Friday: the first fruit from its "Anti-Security" venture, in which it has sought to attack and embarrass computer security companies and law enforcement agencies.

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LulzSec claims attack on US police website

Hacker group says it broke into the computers of an Arizona law enforcement agency and planned to release more classified documents

The hacking collective LulzSec says it has hacked into the website and database of the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) and released details of staff, emails and correspondence on public file-sharing sites.

A number of DPS officers told the Associated Press that they had been inundated with calls to their home and mobile phones from strangers on Thursday night, and that they were trying to change their numbers.

A DPS spokesman confirmed that the agency's computer system had been breached and was taking additional security safeguards that he wouldn't disclose.

The hackers said they had specifically targeted the department in that state because of its tough immigration law "and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona". Arizona has introduced tough identification laws which have been criticised by President Obama and others. However, they have been frozen due to legal challenges.

But even as the details were being released, pressure was growing on the group from rival hackers unhappy about what they see as a lack of discretion in the choices of its targets. LulzSec has taken credit for hacking into Sony Pictures Europe, a number of games sites including Eve Online and Sega, defacing the PBS website and attacking the CIA website, the US Senate computer systems and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

The collective said on its website that it was releasing "hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement."

The LulzSec group also said it planned to release "more classified documents and embarrassing personal details of military and law enforcement" every week but it was unclear whether other Arizona agencies were targeted.

Meanwhile rival hackers, including one called The Jester – an ex-US military member – have been concentrating on tracking down the group's website and identifying its members. The Jester said on Twitter on Thursday that he had traced the Lulz Security website to an ISP in Malaysia, and provided a program for people to help track it down.

Other hackers are also trying to gather data about the group, which the Guardian understands was weakened earlier this month after some members worried about the outcome of attacking US government sites. In the UK one man, Ryan Cleary, has been arrested by the police and charged with offences under the Computer Misuse Act relating to attacks on a number of sites including Soca's.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona was taking unspecified countermeasures to protect its computer system, officials there said on Thursday night.

Manuel Johnson, a spokesman for the FBI's Phoenix division, said the agency was aware of the situation but couldn't comment on whether the FBI was investigating it.

The Arizona Republic reported that experts worked Thursday evening to close external access to DPS' system.

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LulzSec IRC leak: the full record

Full text of the chatroom logs of discussions between the hackers involved in LulzSec, aka Lulz Security, reveal the tensions inside the group

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Inside LulzSec: Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers

Leaked IRC logs identify LulzSec members and show a disorganised group obsessed with its media coverage and suspicious of other hackers

It was a tight-knit and enigmatic group finding its feet in the febrile world of hacker collectives, where exposing and embarrassing your targets is just as important as protecting your own identity.

But leaked logs from LulzSec's private chatroom – seen, and published today, by the Guardian – provide for the first time a unique, fly-on-the-wall insight into a team of audacious young hackers whose inner workings have until now remained opaque.

LulzSec is not, despite its braggadocio, a large – or even coherent – organisation. The logs reveal how one hacker known as "Sabu", believed to be a 30-year-old security consultant, effectively controls the group of between six and eight people, keeping the others in line and warning them not to discuss what they have done with others; another, "Kayla", provides a large botnet – networks of infected computers controlled remotely – to bring down targeted websites with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks; while a third, "Topiary", manages the public image, including the LulzSec Twitter feed.

They turn out to be obsessed with their coverage in the media, especially in physical newspapers, sharing pictures of coverage they have received in the Wall Street Journal and other papers. They also engineered a misinformation campaign to make people think they are a US-government sponsored team.

They also express their enmity towards a rival called The Jester – an ex-US military hacker who usually attacks jihadist sites, but has become embroiled in a dispute with Anonymous, WikiLeaks and LulzSec over the leaked diplomatic cables and, more recently, LulzSec's attacks on US government websites, including those of the CIA and the US Senate.

In a further sign that the spotlight is beginning to engulf LulzSec, a lone-wolf hacker managed to temporarily cripple the group's website on Friday morning. Originally thought to be the work of The Jester, an activist, known as Oneiroi, later claimed responsibility for the attack but did not provide an explanation.

The group's ambitions went too far for some of its members: when the group hit an FBI-affiliated site on 3 June, two lost their nerve and quit, fearing reprisals from the US government. After revealing that the two, "recursion" and "devrandom" have quit, saying they were "not up for the heat", Sabu tells the remaining members: "You realise we smacked the FBI today. This means everyone in here must remain extremely secure."

Another member, "storm", then asks worriedly: "Sabu, did you wipe the PBS bd [board] logs?", referring to an attack by LulzSec on PBS on 29 May, when they planted a fake story that the dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive. If traces remained there of the hackers' identities, that could lead the FBI to them.

"Yes," Sabu says. "All PBS logs are clean." Storm replies: "Then I'm game for some more." Sabu says: "We're good. We got a good team here."

Documenting a crucial five-day period in the group's early development from 31 May to 4 June, the logs – whose authenticity has been separately confirmed through comments made online by LulzSec's members – are believed to have been posted online by a former affiliate named "m_nerva". They contain detailed conversations between the group, who have in recent weeks perpetrated a series of audacious attacks on a range of high-profile targets, including Sony, the CIA, the US Senate, and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

LulzSec threatened m_nerva on Tuesday in a tweet saying "Remember this tweet, m_nerva, for I know you'll read it: your cold jail cell will be haunted with our endless laughter. Game over, child." As an explanation, they said: "They leaked logs, we owned them [took over their computer], one of them literally started crying for mercy". The leaked logs are the ones seen by the Guardian.

The conversations confirm that LulzSec has links with – but is distinct from – the notorious hacker group Anonymous. Sabu, a knowledgeable hacker, emerges as a commanding figure who issues orders to the small, tight-knit team with striking authority.

Despite directing the LulzSec operation, Sabu does not appear to engage in the group's public activity, and warns others to be careful who and how they talk outside their private chatroom. "The people on [popular hacker site] 2600 are not your friends," Sabu warns them on 2 June. "95% are there to social engineer [trick] you, to analyse how you talk. I am just reminding you. Don't go off and befriend any of them."

But the difficulty of keeping their exploits and identities secret proves difficult: Kayla is accused of giving some stolen Amazon voucher codes to someone outside the group, which could lead back to one of their hacks. "If he's talking publicly, Kayla will talk to him," Sabu comments, bluntly.

Topiary, who manages the public image of LulzSec – which centres around its popular Twitter feed, with almost 260,000 followers – also acted previously as a spokesman for Anonymous, once going head-to-head in a live video with Shirley Phelps-Roper of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, during which he hacked into the church's website mid-interview.

His creative use of language and sharp sense of humour earns praise from his fellow hackers in the chat logs, who tell him he should "write a fucking book". On one occasion, after a successful DDoS attack brings down a targeted web server, Topiary responds in characteristic fashion to the hacker responsible, Storm: "You're like our resident sniper sitting in the crow's nest with a goddamn deck-shattering electricity blast," he writes. "Enemy ships being riddled with holes."

But while LulzSec has a jovial exterior, and proclaims that its purpose is to hack "for the lulz" (internet slang for laughs and giggles), Sabu is unremittingly serious. Domineering and at times almost parental, he frequently reminds the other hackers of the dangers of being tracked by the authorities, who the logs reveal are often hot on their heels.

During one exchange, a hacker named Neuron starts an IAmA (Q and A) session for LulzSec on the website Reddit for "funzies" and to engage with the public. This immediately raises the ire of Sabu, who puts an angry and abrupt halt to it.

"You guys started an IAmA on reddit?" Sabu asks in disbelief. "I will go to your homes and kill you. If you really started an IAmA bro, you really don't understand what we are about here. I thought all this stuff was common knowledge ... no more public apperances [sic] without us organizing it."

He adds: "If you are not familiar with these hostile environments, don't partake in it."

The logs also reveal that the group began a campaign of disinformation around LulzSec. Their goal was to convince – and confuse – internet users into believing a conspiracy theory: that LulzSec is in fact a crack team of CIA agents working to expose the insecurities of the web, headed by Adrian Lamo, the hacker who reported the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning to the authorities.

"You guys are claiming that LulzSec is a CIA op ... that Anonymous is working to uncover LulzSec ... that Adrian Lamo is at the head of it all ... and people actually BELIEVE this shit?" writes joepie91, another member. "You just tell some bullshit story and people fill in the rest for you."

"I know, it's brilliant," replies Topiary. The attempts did pay off, with some bloggers passing comments such as: "I hypothesize that this is a government 'red team' or 'red cell' operation, aimed at building support for government intervention into internet security from both the public and private sectors."

The group monitors news reports closely, and appears to enjoy – even thrive – on the publicity its actions bring. But the logs show that the members are frustrated by the efforts of a self-professed "patriot-hacker" known as the Jester (or th3j35t3r), whose name is pejoratively referenced throughout.

The Jester is purportedly an ex-US military hacker, and was responsible for high-profile attacks on WikiLeaks prior to the release of US diplomatic cables in November. In recent weeks he has made LulzSec his principal target, describing them as "common bullies". Topiary in turn dismisses The Jester as a "pompous elitism-fuelling blogger" – but the group is always worried that The Jester or his associates are trying to track them down.

The Jester claims LulzSec are motivated by money and points to allegations that the group tried to extort money from Unveillance, a data security company. Similar accusations against LulzSec by two other groups, "Web Ninjas" and "TeaMp0isoN_". Web Ninjas say they want to see LulzSec "behind bars" for committing "insane acts ... in the name of publicity or financial gain or anti-govt agenda".

The logs do not reveal any discussion of extortion between the LulzSec inner circle; nor do they indicate any underlying political motivations for the attacks. But amid the often tense atmosphere depicted in the logs the hackers do occasionally find time to talk politics.

"One of these days we will have tanks on our homes," writes trollpoll, shortly after it emerged the US government was reclassifying hacking as a possible act of war. "Yea, no shit," responds Storm.

"Corporations should realize the internet isn't theirs," adds joepie91. "And I don't mean the physical tubes, but the actual internet ... the community, idea, concept."

"Yes, the utopia is to create a new internet," says trollpoll. "Corporation free."

On Monday 20 June, Sabu's worst fears may have been confirmed when a 19-year-old named Ryan Cleary was arrested in Wickford, Essex and later charged with a cyber attack in connection with a joint Scotland Yard and FBI probe in to a hacking group believed to be LulzSec.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson described the arrest as "very significant", though LulzSec itself was quick to claim Cleary was not a member of the group and had only allowed it to host "legitimate chatrooms" on his server.

"Clearly the UK police are so desperate to catch us that they've gone and arrested someone who is, at best, mildly associated with us," the group tweeted.

An individual named "Ryan" is occasionally referenced by the hackers in the logs, though he himself does not feature and appears to have only a loose association with the group.

Scotland Yard confirmed on Thursday that it was continuing to work with "a range of agencies" as part of an "ongoing investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group".

In response to the leaked logs, LulzSec posted a statement on the website pastebin, claiming users named joepie91, Neuron, Storm and trollpoll were "not involved with LulzSec" and rather "just hang out with us".

They added: "Those logs are primarily from a channel called #pure-elite, which is /not/ the LulzSec core chatting channel. #pure-elite is where we gather potential backup/subcrew research and development battle fleet members – ie, we were using that channel only to recruit talent for side-operations."

The group has vowed to continue its actions undeterred. But they now face a determined pincer movement from the FBI, UK police, and other hackers – including The Jester, who has been relentless in his pursuit of them for more than a fortnight. If its members' real identities are revealed, LulzSec may vanish as quickly as it rose to prominence

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A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed

Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary Federal reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users

When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, he provided the American people with a warning.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

Sixty years later, the military-industrial complex has been joined by another unprecedented centre of what has increasingly proven to be "misplaced power": the dozens of secretive firms known collectively as the intelligence contracting industry.

Last February, three of these firms – HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico, known collectively as Team Themis – were discovered to have conspired to hire out their information war capabilities to corporations which hoped to strike back at perceived enemies, including US activist groups, WikiLeaks and journalist Glenn Greenwald. That such a dangerous new dynamic was now in play was only revealed due to a raid by hackers associated with the Anonymous collective, resulting in the dissemination of more than 70,000 emails to and from executives at HBGary Federal and affiliated company HBGary.

After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depicted therein, I have revealed my summary of a classified US intelligence programme known as Romas/COIN, as well as its upcoming replacement, known as Odyssey. The programme appears to allow for the large-scale monitoring of social networks by way of such things as natural language processing, semantic analysis, latent semantic indexing and IT intrusion. At the same time, it also entails the dissemination of some unknown degree of information to a given population through a variety of means – without any hint that the actual source is US intelligence. Scattered discussions of Arab translation services may indicate that the programme targets the Middle East.

Despite the details I have provided in the document – which is also now in the possession of several major news outlets and which may be published in whole or in part by any party that cares to do so – there remains a great deal that is unclear about Romas/COIN and the capabilities it comprises. The information with which I've worked consists almost entirely of email correspondence between executives of several firms that together sought to win the contract to provide the programme's technical requirements, and because many of the discussions occurred in meetings and phone conversations, the information remaining deals largely with prospective partners, the utility of one capability over another, and other clues spread out over hundreds of email exchanges between a large number of participants.

The significance of this programme to the public is not limited to its potential for abuse by facets of the US intelligence community, which has long been proverbial for misusing other of its capabilities. Perhaps the most astonishing aspect is the fact that the partnership of contracting firms and other corporate entities that worked to obtain the contract was put into motion in large part by Aaron Barr, the disgraced former CEO of HBGary Federal who was at the centre of Team Themis's conspiracy to put high-end intelligence capabilities at the disposal of private institutions. As I explain further in the linked report, this fact alone should prompt increased investigation into the manner in which this industry operates and the threats it represents to democratic institutions.

Altogether, the existence and nature of Romas/COIN should confirm what many had already come to realise over the past few years, in particular: the US and other states have no intention of allowing populations to conduct their affairs without scrutiny. Such states ought not complain when they find themselves subjected to similar scrutiny – as will increasingly become the case over the next several years.

• Editor's note: The headline and photo caption in this article originally alluded to HBGary. HBGary Federal is the company in question, which is a distinct entity from HBGary Inc. The article has been amended to make that clarification at 9am (BST) on 23 June 2011

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Hacking suspect Ryan Cleary suffers from austim, court told

Teenager accused of hacking offences during probe into LulzSec group has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome

The British teenager accused of bringing down the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court has heard.

Ryan Cleary, 19, of South Beech Avenue, Wickford, Essex, was arrested as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into hacking group LulzSec.

His lawyer told City of Westminster magistrates court on Saturday that Cleary has the form of autism, along with agoraphobia.

District judge Nicholas Evans heard that Cleary's condition had been diagnosed by a psychologist.

Cleary did not enter any plea to the five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Act with which he is charged.

He was granted bail but remains in custody after prosecutors objected. An appeal will be heard at Southwark crown court on Monday. The teenager spoke only to confirm his name and to say that he understood the proceedings.

He was arrested at his family home on Monday as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into LulzSec, a group that claims responsibility for hacking attempts on Soca, the US Senate and the CIA.

He is charged with conspiring with other people on or before 20 June to create a remotely controlled network of zombie computers, known as a "botnet", to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where websites are flooded with traffic to make them crash.

He is alleged to have carried out similar attacks against the British Phonographic Industry's website on 29 October last year and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's website on or before 20 June.

Cleary's case has parallels with that of Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger's and is fighting extradition to America over allegations of hacking into US military computers.

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LulzSec leaks Arizona law enforcement papers (Updated with excerpts)

LulzSec announced Thursday evening the publication at Pirate Bay of a trove of leaked material from Arizona law enforcement agencies. Arizona's Department of Public Safety confirmed shortly thereafter that it was hacked.

In the press release included with the dump, a LulzSec affiliate outlines a more activist agenda than is usually associated with the group.

We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.

The documents classified as "law enforcement sensitive", "not for public
distribution", and "for official use only" are primarily related to border
patrol and counter-terrorism operations and describe the use of informants to
infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest
movements.

Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarassing
personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal
their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to
terrorize communities fighting an unjust "war on drugs".

Hackers of the world are uniting and taking direct action against our common
oppressors - the government, corporations, police, and militaries of the world.
See you again real soon! ;D


With more than 700 bulletins, email archives, images and other files, the 440MB package will keep readers busy for days. A few excerpts from the most obviously newsworthy documents follow.

Amid countless AZDPS emails covering subjects ranging from internal training, policies, events and goings-on in the criminal underground, this remarkable circular:

"BELOW ARE PICTURES TAKEN AFTER A RAID ON A DRUG DEALER'S HOUSE IN MEXICO. ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???AREN'T WE GLAD THAT WE HAVE AN OPEN BORDER POLICY BETWEEN US? JUST LOOK AT HOW WELL ITS PAYING OFF........ I THINK ALLOWING MEXICAN TRUCKERS IN THE U.S. IS A GREAT IDEA!!! JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE MILLIONS OF REASONS WHY......... SEE HOW WELL THESE TRUCKERS ARE DOING? WHAT THE @#@%*@ ARE WE THINKING??? Notice that nearly 100% of this money is U.S. Currency!!! Do you now wonder why the cost of living has catapulted in our country??? I don't...... Some of the illegal aliens we're letting in can afford anything at any cost!!! And for the ones who cannot........ We'll give it to them anyway!!!AND WE HAVE TWO BORDER PATROL AGENTS IN PRISON FOR SHOOTING AND WOUNDING A WELL DOCUMENTED MEXICAN DRUG DEALER! WHO, BY THE WAY, WAS ARMED AND ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A CONVICTED (BY MEXICO) MURDERER . MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, DOESN'T IT??? AUTOMATICS, SILENCERS...... THEY'RE ALL HAVING A NICE LAUGH ABOUT THIS STUFF AT OUR EXPENSE!!! And we want to give ILLEGAL ALIENS amnesty and not build the border fence because of funding!?!?!? SEND THIS TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOUR LOCAL CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE. Our country is bleeding from the outside in!!! Don't you think it's time we take back what WE have sacrificed for over 140 years for??? I do. Build the fence higher and deeper, tighten border control, and send EVERY illegal alien home!!!"

In another email, there's discussion of the Mexican government using recently-bought radio gear to intercept U.S. communications:

"The FBI asked the Mexican Government to sign an "Intercept Agreement" stating that they would not use these devices to listen to U.S. Government radio traffic, and the Mexican Government declined to sign the agreement. The implication is that obviously the Mexican Government intends to do a lot of listening."

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50 Days of Lulz

Friends around the globe,

We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.

For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.

While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.

Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.

So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.

Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.

Let it flow...

Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe

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Our mayhem: http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/
Our chaos: http://thepiratebay.org/user/LulzSec/
Our final release: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50_Days_of_Lulz

Please make mirrors of material on the website, because we're not renewing the hosting. Goodbye. <3

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 01:15 schreef David1979 het volgende:
Volgens mij ben je een paar artikelen vergeten, game over voor je vriendjes

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Cops’ Crackdown on LulzSec Motivated by Embarrassment, Not Danger

Out of all the computer hackers in the world, the cops are fixated on Lulzsec. Not because they’re the most dangerous but because they’re the most embarrassing. They are also the most helpful. Priorities?

So far the group has by its own admission hacked: Sony (who hasn’t?), the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Senate, Nintendo, the U.K. Serious Organised Crime Agency and National Health Service, the online game Brink, the Brazilian government, PBS and Fox (a bipartisan organization). Some of these attacks have involved taking records, others have been denial of service attacks and still others have just messed with the appearance of websites. (My fave is the “Tupac lives” story on PBS.)

What it has not done - as best as can be determined - is used its skills or the information it has gathered for personal profit. LulzSec turned down a reward from the security firm Berg & Berg which offered $10,000 to anyone who could change a picture on its website. Once the picture was changed LulzSec left a message saying it was easy to do. “Keep your money, we do it for the lulz.” (In case you don’t know, lulz is cyber slang for laughs. Ask any teenager.)

All hackers are not created equal

Judging by its behavior LulzSec is acting in the manner of the classical definition of the word, “hack”: Committing clever pranks or practical jokes. The group’s activities all support its claim that it is mainly interested in demonstrating that most online security is laughable:

This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn’t released something publicly. We’re sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn’t told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we’d have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.

So why are the authorities so determined to get Lulz? Because they’ve been embarrassed, because so far they’ve failed to get the WikiLeak’s loving Anonymous group and because — as far as can be told — they’ve failed to get any of the groups or people who are clearly making money from stealing information, i.e. criminals. (Whether Anonymous belongs in that last category is open to debate.)

Yesterday British police arrested Ryan Cleary, 19, and alleged he was a “significant” figure in LulzSec. The group responded in a post on its Twitter feed alleging that Cleary was not a member but, “We house one of our many legitimate chatrooms on his IRC server.” Since then the media has been filled with reports that the arrest was part of an international crackdown on the group.*

Cleary is the sixth Brit arrested in connection with the recent hacking attacks. He joins five arrested in January on suspicion of being involved in Anonymous. None of them have been charged, which may indicate something about the strength of the government’s case.

If the authorities around the world are going after LulzSec it is a waste of time and resources. These are better used going after actual threats (like groups extorting money from corporations) or maybe even improving computer security.

Photo: WikiCommons

*Because these are exactly the things you would expect these groups to say under the circumstances, it would be wise to take all these allegations with a lot of salt — and some tequila. “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” - H.L. Mencken

Read more: http://www.bnet.com/blog/(...)er/685#ixzz1QKhDcETE

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 01:19 schreef David1979 het volgende:

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Jij was toch van de linkdumps?

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 01:25 schreef David1979 het volgende:

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Liever lui dan moe, maar vooruit:

http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/search/label/Lulzsec

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 01:30 schreef David1979 het volgende:
ja dat zei ik toch, liever lui...

kwestie van tijd

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 02:57 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Dus ze zijn ontmaskerd?

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Connexion's First Hack

Dear Internetz,
My name is Connexion. I have hacked your website, http://www.pchardware.ro because it needed
to have a checkup with the SecDoctor. I have found many errors with your website and agree to tell
them to you via twitter, @Connexion_Lulz. I also want everyone reading this to note that it was me
who hacked them, and not some random person who copied everything and said it was theirs. I want you
to know that a simple MySQli should be prevented.

*NOTE* If you are wondering this is the 1st website that I have hacked. */NOTE*

Yes, I do look up to @LulzSec and @LulzRaft and hope that someday I can say that I am part of their
group taking down the internet one crappy security at a time. To prove that I hacked your website,
I provided a table below of all the usernames, emails and hashed passwords. To decrypt the passwords
go to http://passcracking.com and decrypt it. Some passwords can't be decrypted at the moment and that's
all good (Get Cain & Abel for that). Now, I have taken the liberty to put aside all interessing users to the
right. One has a .gov email so maybe governement :S and also there are the MD5 Hash Passwords too. So you can
tell that they switched from MD5 to whatever they use now. Also there is adultwomenmasturbating@google.com
which makes me LULZ all the time.

*ALSO NOTE* That most people use the same password for everything so check facebook and send SS! */ALSO NOTE*

So that is all I have to say at the moment. Please enjoy and definently talk to me on Twitter.
Regards,
_____ ______ _____ _____ _______ \ / _______ ______ _____
| | | | | | | | \ / | | | | |
| | | | | | | |______ \/ | | | | |
| | | | | | | | /\ | | | | |
_____ ______ | | | | |______ / \ ___|___ ______ | |

*ALSO ALSO NOTE* That these are not all of the users. They have 9257 users and i just don't want to take that long editing it. */ALSO ALSO NOTE*

=====================User Data=====================

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Why arresting lulzsec won’t change anything

Federal law enforcement agencies from around the world have been working to arrest members of the group known as lulzsec. Love them or hate them lulzsec has changed how the public views hackers and hacking. It has brought more attention to the cyber world and the cultures that develop there, and they have changed how some hackers operate Instead of quietly hacking smaller websites or targets of personal interest, they hack or attempt to hack government targets and post about it on social network and public chat rooms. Lulzsec declared war on the US Government and others like them have answered the call to arms. By doing this lulzsec has ensured that even if they themselves are caught their cause will live on without them, in fact if caught this would only likely motivate their followers further.

These “daughter groups” seem based on their region , on twitter I have seen “lulzsec” based groups for brazil and there have been reports of graffiti tags showing the word “antisec” and lulzsec’s mascot image in San Diego, I do not know how many other groups such as this are out there, but considering lulzsec’s over 200,000 twitter followers the number could be significant. Considering law enforcement’s history with dealing with cell based groups if they seriously want to stop the antisec movement they are going to need a different approach than the one they are currently taking, fighting them directly is only going to expand the antisec movement and fuel its anger.

Right now lulzsec and its allies have the advantage because their operation is popular and costs very little to operate but does a significant amount of damage, while Government forces cost significant amounts of money to train and operate and do very little damage. Considering how slow that governments are to adopt change, even when it directly benefits them lulzsec and its allies will be at this for quite some time.

If the governments were truly serious about stopping this threat they would work to defuse the anger and outright hate people feel toward the government these days, they would take steps to show people that they are not the bad guys and stop taking such a hard approach. They would pay more attention to public perceptions and address the issues that people have in a honest and transparent manner, being answerable to the public when questions are asked. For example there may be a perfectly rational explaination as to why the FBI took servers that didn’t seem to have anything to do with lulzsec from DigitalOne, but the people will never know why because they won’t comment, and when they do people feel like what they are told does not really explain anything, so without answers from official sources right away, people will just draw logical conclusions based on the available evidence , and said evidence makes it look like the FBI has no idea what it is doing and they have good reason to believe that.

As of late the governments actions in public have been disastrous and it has gotten to the point where people feel compelled to act to stop it. People feel like their rights are being stripped away and that they have no control over their own private lives. They are afraid. So when someone comes along and is not afraid, and not only not afraid but willing and able to act against the target of their fears, they rally around them and support them, feeling less afraid to act themselves, and after enough time they lose all fear of any legal repercussions because they believe they are morally right. This is the point we are at right now, they have motivated and emboldened people that the government has alienated and ignored. Stopping lulzsec won’t stop antisec, in fact it will likely do the opposite. The game has been changed, and right now the only winning move is not to play.

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Web censorship moves West

While few may object to blocking access to child pornography, online restrictions set dangerous precedent.

For a long time, the dominant conversation around internet censorship has focused on two of the practice's giants: Iran and China.

Arguably owners of the most sophisticated filtering methods, the criticism levied against these two countries has been deserved. And yet, the focus on them has largely been at the exclusion of other countries that also censor the web to varying degrees - including an increasing number of democracies.

In recent weeks, Turkey, Tunisia, and Australia have all made headlines for their various plans to introduce new filtering schemes. Though each country's plan differs, they all have similar focus: curbing access to obscene content.

But while blocking obscenity may reflect the will of the people, such filters nonetheless have implications for freedom of expression.

Australian ISPs 'aim to curb child sexual abuse'

In Australia, after several failed attempts by the government to introduce a mandatory filtering scheme, several Australian ISPs have taken matters into their own hands, blocking access to a list of 500 sites.

The ISPs will base their blacklists on a list maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), as well as - according to News.com.au - "child abuse URLs that are provided by reputable international organisations".

In 2009, a copy of the ACMA's blacklist was published by WikiLeaks, and was found to include the website of a Queensland-based dentist, a handful of Christian sites, and some YouTube videos - as well as adult sites deemed to be legal in Australia.

Such errors raise questions amongst free expression advocates about the lack of transparency in the process of determining which sites will be banned. There is also concern that there appears to be no appeals process by which to challenge sites banned by the ISPs.

Tunisia blocked pornography by court order

For years, Tunisia stood along with China and Iran as one of the world's most strict online censors. Following the January 2011 popular revolt, however, internet filtering became obsolete for a time.

Shortly thereafter, a military tribunal moved to block a handful of sites, including all individual Facebook profiles or pages.

The latest measure to block sites in Tunisia comes after a group of conservative lawyers filed a legal case to "impose the blocking of pornographic content". The Tunisian Internet Agency at first refused to implement the order and sought a stay of the ruling, but on June 13, the motion was denied and the Agency was forced to comply with the order.

The decision was met with derision by many Tunisians, some of whom protested on the grounds of personal freedom or concern that filtering any type of content would open the doors to further censorship; while others felt that the debate distracted from more important issues in the fledgling democracy. Still, some others were in support of the ban.

Turkey's four-pronged approach

Turkey's proposed filtering scheme has raised ire across the country, with citizens marching in the streets against censorship.

Though the scheme is meant to offer four opt-in layers of filtering - from "standard" to "children" - Turkish citizens realise they have plenty to lose. After all, the government has blocked YouTube and WordPress, among various other sites, for containing content deemed insulting to "Turkishness".

Meanwhile, Turkey's Law on the Internet #5651 allows any party to petition a court to block content for a range of reasons - including alleged defamation. Some Turkish analysts believe that the law is easily abused.

Furthermore, a 2009 report from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe highlighted that 80 per cent of Turkey's banned sites had been blocked at the behest of administrative decisions, rather than court rulings.

Though the new system's "standard" option will come without new filtering, there is no word as to whether already-blocked sites will remain banned.

Filtering is futile

While filtering - when conducted in the home or other private space - can be a good thing, such as preventing children from inadvertently accessing obscene or other undesirable content, government-level filtering does more harm than good.

Not only is it probable - and quite common - for "benign" sites to get caught up in content filters, blocking a certain type of content does not necessarily mean that such content ceases to exist; and in the case of child pornography, blocking may simply force such content "underground", to peer to peer and other private networks where perpetrators are more difficult to catch.

Filtering at the government or ISP level is costly, yet can be easily circumvented with minimal tech savvy, using widely available proxy tools.

Most problematically, setting a precedent of blocking websites simply makes it that much easier for a government or ISP to extend filtering as they wish.

While few might object to blocking child pornography, what happens when the filters go after politically sensitive content? Will anyone object then?

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2011-06-25 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Cablegate Releases, #WikiLeaks & More

This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security establishment of the United States because each issue/topic helps one further understand WikiLeaks and vice versa. All the times are GMT.

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 11:16 schreef David1979 het volgende:

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Daar zit wat in natuurlijk, maar doet me een beetje denken aan die andere 'cell based' groep waar ze op dit moment tegen vechten en waarvan ze recent de leider hebben doodgeschoten.

Waar ze ook van weten dat die leider weer gewoon wordt opgevolgd en al is opgevolgd. Maar ze passen ze hun beleid niet aan, sterker, ze gooien er nog een schepje bovenop.

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Lulzsec & The Jester Expose each other, Long Live Anonymous ! : The Hacker News ~

Lulz war ! Today Hacking group "Lulzsec" completed their 50th day and also announce the retirement of Lulz boat. What are the Reasons behind this ? Lulz Security's rise to prominence has been extraordinarily fast.The hacking group first emerged in May and in the past few weeks has attacked the websites of some of the world's leading corporations and governments. The group specialises in locating websites with poor security and then stealing information from them and posting it online via Twitter account, well They have 278,429 Followers]in 50days.

To understand who/what lulzsec is, you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. It's a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincable.

According to Anonymous "The problem with Lulzsec is that they lack the skills to keep it going. As such after SONY they couldn't get into anything. So they switched their focus to just releasing random crap that didn't mean anything. Then they started running out of things they could hack. So they put out requests for people to join them. That got them a few hits, and now they've switched their gears again to be ANTI-SEC".

Sabu (Leader of Lulzsec) and Topiary are the only two people updating the twitter and releasing stuff. The gn0sis kids are gone in hiding somewhere. So the team include :
Sabu, Topiary , Kayla , gn0sis , Uncommon, EEKDACAT.

LULZSEC skills : We have seen that Lulzsec mostly hack random targets which are vulnerable and easily available on net via google Dorks. Now just check the Defacement section of "The hacker news" , you will get so much talented hackers of world, Then why these guys not having millions of followers ? Why these Indian, Pakistani and Albanian hackers don't get attention of Big media ? Its all because their aim was not to get Fame, they are testing their own skills and Learning from real world or whatever the other Reasons of hacks. Even PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) & Writerspace Hacked Again by Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) . According to Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) "This wasn't done for fame or fun,just proving LulzSec aren't as goodas they think they are. I haven't rooted the box or been up to crack the hashes, I'm just proving that most of their attacks are very lame and basic (i'm pretty sure and automated) SQL injections and further privilege escalation, which is just matter of time." He also said "Support for WebNinjas & Jester, good job at exposing them.Sad to mention, but I really agree with th3j35t3r & WebNinjas - LulzSec are just a bunch of script kiddies..."

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“Anonymous Anti-fascists” Hack Several White Supremacist Websites Including newp.org

Stuff like this just puts a smile on my face. It has comes to my attention that www.newp.org, the website for the “North East White Pride” organization, as well as other sites belonging to them have been hacked. Here is part of what the hackers, describing themselves as “Anonymous Antifascists”, defaced newp.org with:


The hackers defaced the websites with a statement. They also released home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords and email correspondences of the administrator of the site, Robert O’Donovan. Here is the statement from the antifascists in full:

“——————————————————————————–
FOR A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS, PRISONS, AND RACIST HATRED – SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY!
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
#opblitzkrieg #anonops #lulzsec #operationpayback #totaldestroythursday
——————————————————————————–

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anonymous Anti-Fascist Hackers Deface White Supremacist Websites, Drop Dox

A Mob of Anonymous Anti-fascist hooligans hacked into several white supremacist
websites belonging to North East White Pride(newp.org), Local 1488 Store
(local1488.com), Racist-Jokes.com, and more, defacing with anti-racist messages
and leaking private information. We’re dropping usernames, passwords, home
addresses and phone numbers of over 1000 active nazis in the US. We also spammed
35,000+ nazi emails with this message to make them sleep a little less easy at
night. We did this to expose and disrupt the racist scum who associate with
their white supremacist group and purchased items from their online Nazi store.

Just two weeks ago the webmaster Rob O’Donovan and his racist organization North
East White Pride attempted to hold a white supremacist gathering in the
Worchester Public Library but instead were greeted with a dozen antifa who burst
into their meeting black-clad-bandana’d-out and beat the nazis down with chairs
and u-locks. A week later, they obviously didn’t get the hint to cut the nazi
shit, so we had to own them hardstyle when a week later they attempted to hold
an anti-immigrant “Close The Border” rally.

Detailed private information about Rob was leaked including confidential emails,
online store transactions, phone and address information for him as well as the
thousands of nazis who purchased items from his store local1488.com. The leaked
emails revealed Rob was working with Detective Andrew Creed from the Boston
Police Intelligence Unit who regularly “made sure that your group was able to
get their message out in a safe manner” against “problems with ‘antis’ showing
up”. Rob also runs Tea Party websites regularly bringing other nazis to Tea
Party rallies further demonstrating the connections between “mainstreamized”
racists in the Tea Party and violent neo-nazi extremists.

We believe in militant direct action to smash white supremacy, expose them to
their communities, confront them at their jobs and homes, and disrupt their
organization’s ability to conduct meetings/rallies, distribute their hateful
propaganda, and communicate on the internet. Those who want us in the gas
chambers, who seek to take away our freedoms, deserve it not for themselves.

Just as we smash organized white supremacists, we also smash white-hat corporate
“hacker” sellouts who work for the government, military, law enforcement, and
the corporate security industry. You need us, but we don’t need you. Fuck the
FBI, Fuck NATO, and Fuck Ingragard. Props to real OG hackers who still break
into and destroy the systems of our enemies: lulzsec, anti-sec, hackbloc, zfo,
el8, h0no, project mayhem, phc, phrack, fox, #school4lulz and countless more.

The defaced websites are:
freedomhost.info, newp.org, local1488.com, patriotpages.us, teapartyflags.us,
darklordshop.com, racist-jokes.com, iussa.org, ascribewriting.com,
listen-n-post.com

The server formerly hosted the websites:
blackserialkillers.org, rockinghampatriots.info, ohiowhitepride.com,
boycotttheboycott.info, aryanvolkofmidgard.com, thefoundersplan.org”

While I’m sure more will come to light after all the leaked emails have been perused, one email from Detective Andrew Creed of the Boston Police Intelligence Unit to O’Donovan. In the email Creed seeks O’Donovan’s cooperation and offers his help to make sure the “antis” don’t cause a problem at NEWP’s event. The email:

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 18:35 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:
http://pastebin.com/iVujX4TR
Hoppa, lulzsec leden ontmaskerd .

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 18:49 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:

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IRC in de gaten houden en wachten tot ze wat persoonlijks zeggen. Die joepie91 (zit ook op FOK!) gooide zijn persoonlijke domein bijvoorbeeld online.

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"ThePiratebay deletes 50 Days Of Lulz"

By BSOD

2011-06-26
Thepiratebay just deleted the lulzsec torrent "50 days of lulz" , reason theres some virus in it. Thepiratebay does not allow files that are mislabeled, or contain virus/trojan's, or child pornography. Being as how this torrent was extremely popular, it may have infected 100's of thousands of people already. Lulzsec's account on thepiratebay was not banned so they are cleared to upload the same torrent again without the alleged "trojan".

source: moderator.

additional information:
http://tlan3y.tumblr.com/post/6938716877/
http://activepolitic.com:82/Outside_News/6057.html

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 19:05 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:

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Geloof jij het?

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Op zondag 26 juni 2011 19:15 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Ik heb die gister gedownload en er zat inderdaad vage shit in.

Maar iig, wie heeft Lulzsec exposed, ik bedoel je komt niet zomaar even aan alle gegevens.

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Op maandag 27 juni 2011 13:30 schreef Disana het volgende:
Zelfs de Volkskrant heeft het opgepikt:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/(...)-stoppen-ermee.dhtml

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Anonymous Claims LulzSec Members, Steps up Attacks

The decision by computer hacking group LulzSec on Saturday to fold operations may be helping another online group, Anonymous, which stepped up attacks over the weekend.

Members of LulzSec appear to have rallied around Anonymous with both the group, and some LulzSec members claiming they were now with Anonymous.

Anonymous claimed over the weekend that it has released information from the website of the Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative, a national counter-cyberterrorism training program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security among others.

It also said it had found a "chest of 40 Terabytes internal data" from an undisclosed company, but was not sure how to put up all the data on the web.

LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to "sail into the distance." It did not give a specific reason for its sudden decision.

Anonymous said in a message on Twitter on Sunday that it could confirm that all LulzSec members have reported aboard. A LulzSec member Sabu confirmed on Twitter that its members were now part of Anonymous.

LulzSec and Anonymous came together recently to target government and related agencies in Operation Anti-Security.

There is speculation that the LulzSec, known for its brash comments, had decided to disband after the arrest in the U.K. last week of Ryan Cleary, who is alleged to have been involved with the group.

LulzSec may however have been the victim of attacks from rival hackers it has been squabbling with such as Jester and Web Ninja. A person disclosed over the weekend information on LulzSec and some of its members.

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Anonymous - Press Release 4/26/2011 - OPERATION DARKNET #OpDarknet

In contradiction to the best practices of Anonymous, most VPN's, Tor, and recently I2P users have been prevented from accessing certain IRC services that have previously been associated with Anonymous. The only option left is to connect to these US Based (and otherwise FBI/CIA/DHS friendly/controlled) based IRC servers using your own internet connection with little in the way of privacy.

I2P, or the Invisible Internet Project, is a secure, encrypted, tunnel-based darknet used to maintain anonymity while hosting or accessing content within the darknet, or via proxies to external services on the "normal" net. Created anonymously for the sake of the anonymity of others, this is a great alternative to a centralized system.

I2P is an internet within the internet, unmonitorable and uncensorable from outside. By default, anonymous mail, anonymous filesharing (BitTorrent, Gnutella, i-Mule etc), anonymous chat (IRC/Jabber/I2PMessenger) and anonymous web serving are provided with the installation. Treat I2P like your own private internet, free from interference and oversight. Think privacy, not paranoia, empowerment, not suppression. We have users around the world using I2P to evade censorship, not least in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, China, and other locations where state level interference is routine.

Moreover, with I2P, you can create your own IRC channels and Ops--there is no censorship, and no authority. With the ability to create your own channels and attract anons to your ideas, you will once again, see the beloved agency return to you.

Now is the time.

Learn more here: http://www.i2p2.de/
Download I2P here: http://www.i2p2.de/download
Follow instructions and soon you will be connected through I2P, completely secure and encrypted. Just connect your IRC client to 127.0.0.1:6668 and you're on board
#anoni2p, #opcannabis, #opdarknet, #anonportal and #i2phelp are some channels you may like to visit once you are.

http://pastehtml.com/view/1e7pi9g.html http://pastehtml.com/view/1e6zzoa.html

Installation:

Requirements: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 (Oracle's, IcedTea, OpenJRE etc)

Windows/non-Debian Linuxs, BSD etc.
Grab the installer from http://geti2p.net/download and run, either via the conventional double click route, or from a terminal via java -jar i2pinstall.0.x.x.exe -console (It's a java file with an exe wrapper, so should run anywhere java is installed)

Ubuntu/Debian/etc
apt-add-repository ppa:i2p.packages/i2p as root and then refresh your repo (aptitude update etc). More info here: https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/i2p.

OS X
Convenient, pain-free install script here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5TGPLLAA or over I2P bittorrent here: http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=TorrentDetail&id=12472

Android
Coming soon!

After installation:

- If you're on Windows, and you're not running the portable installation (http://portable-i2p.blogspot.com), you'll want to install the I2P service for best results, and also disable launching the browser at startup, both configurable at http://127.0.0.1:7657/configservice

Then you'll want to head straight for the router console homepage and TAKE TIME to read through the introductory paragraphs. Reading and understanding what's written there will save you time and potential embarassment later, so do it! http://127.0.0.1:7657

CHAT: IRC

Using your favorite IRC Client connect to localhost 6668

for mIRC this would be:

//server -m localhost 6668

WEB PROXY

Open up your browser of choice, set your proxy to localhost:4444 and/or localhost:4445 for HTTPS

Config info here: http://geti2p.net/htproxyports.html

BITTORRENT

http://127.0.0.1:7657/i2psnark for your resident, browser-based I2P BitTorrent client. Active public trackers linked at the top.

ANONYMOUS MAIL

http://127.0.0.1:7657/susimail is your first port of call for anonymous i2p mail with a world reachable return address (you@mail.i2p internally resolves to you@i2pmail.org from the inbound gateway). Create yourself an account at postman's hq (embedded in susimail's login screen), make sure you read the faq and guides regarding acceptable use and being safe online BEFORE you start using your new account.

WEBSERVING ON I2P

You have your own configured-for-i2p webserver ready to go! http://127.0.0.1:7658 for more info.

I2P is Anonymous.

We Are Legion.

We Do Not Forgive.

We Do Not Forget.

Expect US.

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Anonymous releases counter-hacking manual

Anonymous has returned to the forefront of the hacker war against authority with the release of a "counter-cyberterrorism" manual, along with data on the FBI.

With Lulz Security now on permanent hiatus, fellow hacker group Anonymous has filled in the gap with the release of a “counter-cyberterrorism” manual from the US Department of Homeland Security.

According to ABC News, which was first to sort through the 650 MB file posted to MegaUpload, the release was originally thought to have come from a certain private security firm whose website went offline soon after Anonymous released the data. It was later found that the information actually comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which originally produced the “Counter Terrorism Defense Initiative” training program in 2009.

Accordring to the program’s website (which has since been taken offline), the “SENTINAL” program — short for “Security and Network Training Initiative and National Education Laboratory” — “is a national initiative to educate technical personnel in cyberterrorism response and prevention.” The program was intended for employees of “public safety, law enforcement, state and local government, public utilities, colleges and universities, and health care providers.” And it “focuses on enhancing the prevention, preparedness, and response capabilities of local, state, tribal, and rural public safety jurisdictions.”

It does not appear that the release contains much that wasn’t already publicly available on the Internet. It does, however, provide a list of all the Federal Bureau of Investigation office locations throughout the United States. Other contents of note include stock letters for officially requesting user information from Internet service providers, and various hacking and coutner-hacking tools. In short, there’s really nothing much here that a determined person couldn’t have found without hacking a single thing.

Regardless of the value of the release, the action shows that the hackers are far from finished. This release is part of the “AntiSec” (anti-cybersecurity) campaign launched by Anonymous and LulzSec (before it disbanded). According to @AnonymousIRC, a 100,000-follower strong Twitter feed that reports on the group’s escapades, “all @LulzSec members” are onboard with the #AntiSec campaign.

While LulzSec claims that it planned from the beginning to remain a coherent group for 50 days before splitting up, some believe the hacker sect called it quits after a rival gang of hackers, A-Team, released what it claims are the identities and online properties of all of LulzSec’s members.

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Teen accused of attacking SOCA website released on conditional bail


Ryan Cleary's bail conditions mean he is banned from using any device capable of connecting to the internet

The teenager accused of attacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency has been released on conditional bail.

Prosecutors were unsuccessful in their appeal against Ryan Cleary's bail in a hastily convened hearing at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday.

The 19-year-old, who was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome last week, was arrested last Monday as part of an international investigation into the internet hacking group LulzSec following attacks on the CIA and US Senate.

Cleary's bail conditions mean he is banned from using any device capable of connecting to the internet. The Essex teenager must observe a curfew between 9am and 7pm. He will be electronically tagged and must not leave the house without his mother, Rita Cleary.

She was in court for the short hearing on Monday afternoon. The court reversed an earlier decision to hear Cleary's case tomorrow after an appeal over his "vulnerability" from his legal team.

The student has spent the past week being interrogated by the FBI and UK police over the alleged attacks. He could yet be charged with further offences.

Cleary's computers, iPhone and PS3 have been confiscated by police.

In a statement read outside court, Cleary's lawyers said: "Ryan Cleary is very relieved to be granted bail and to be home to his mum, his cats and his books.

"He has cooperated with police and will continue to do so. Ryan has last week been diagnosed with Aspergers... He will now be provided with the professional support he needs. His obvious intelligence can now be channelled into a worthwhile pursuit.

"One thing not so positive from this case is that the British police are investigating and appear to be accepting jurisdiction [unlike the Gary McKinnock case]. Ryan will not be making further statement for the time being."

The case is due back at Southwark crown court for a case management hearing on 30 August.

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Security outfit thanks lulzSec for the Lulz

Governments are blasé, blasts bloke

Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)-lulz/#ixzz1QZAlGeQd

Internet security expert Andy Kemshall from SecurEnvoy reckons LulzSec should be applauded for its campaign of online mayhem, as it exposed government complacency and business naivety.

“I firmly believe that the media attention LulzSec’s DDoS attack has recently received is deserving," he burbled. "It’s thanks to these guys, who’re exposing the blasé attitudes of government and businesses without any personal financial gain, that will make a difference in the long term to the security being put in place to protect our own personal data!”

Kemshall continues: "At the end of the day, it comes down to a fundamental failing on the part of the organisation that allows these criminals in. If they didn’t leave their networks unlocked there wouldn’t be a problem.

"Hackers are exposing the holes and bringing the issue out into the open. RSA unbelievably took three months to come clean about their breach and if hackers hadn’t exposed them, through the Lockheed Martin story, would they have come clean at all? The cynic in me thinks not.”

Kemshall discusses an unnamed a local authority which is waiting for its SecurID tokens to be replaced by RSA. "We were astounded to find that the organisation was actually pretty blasé and said they didn’t feel there was a huge risk. This is naïve as, not only is there proof that the tokens are insecure as another organisation has been hacked, but why else would RSA go to the expense of replacing them if there wasn’t a problem?”

Talking of LulzSec and Anonymous, Kemshall said there was "much to be learnt from their expertise and raw talent."

He added: “These techies are up to speed and are useful to the industry – we need them! What people choose to ignore is many of today’s experts are ex-hackers themselves so Anonymous and LulzSec are actually tomorrow’s authority. They offer fresh ideas and they’re exposing new vulnerabilities that the ‘good guys’ may not yet have seen or even considered.
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"The simple truth is that we’re going to need their expertise if we’re to defend ourselves against other countries and those malicious hackers who are out for financial gain. Instead of persecuting them, we need to recognise their talent, embrace their expertise and encourage them across from the dark side to turn their expertise into something constructive rather than destructive.”

Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)-lulz/#ixzz1QZAetA6i

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Operation Anti-Security: Anonymous release the identities of 2800 Columbian Black Eagles Special Police Unit members

Hacktivist group Anonymous today posted the names of 2800 of the right-wing Columbian Black Eagles Special Police Unit's members online, the published data has been credited as part of it and LulzSec's ongoing Operation Anti-Security.

The data was revealed earlier today via Anonymous Twitter feed. The tweet read, "#AntiSec Results: http://bit.ly/mw48D5 | List of ~2800 officers from the Peruvian Águilas Negras (Black Eagles Special Police Unit)".

The Black Eagles, or Aguilas Negras as the group is known in its native Columbia, are collection of fragmented right wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary cells, thought to have been born from the paramilitary Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC).

The AUC faction the group originated from was an umbrella organisation of death squads designed to combat the Columbia's leftist guerrilla fighters and generate income through drug trafficking.

The group is commonly thought to have no centralised authority and is fragmented into different cells each with its own chain of command.

The Black Eagles group is infamous for its involvement in numerous massacres and mass displacements across Columbia. As well as drug trafficking, certain cells have been linked to kidnapping, extortion and racketeering.

The release was credited as being a part of it and LulzSec's ongoing Operation Anti-Security. The operation is a new cyber campaign led by the two hacking collectives designed to protest and combat any and all institutions or governments attempts to censor or moderate the internet.

Already its brother-in-arms LulzSec has taken credit for attacks and hacks on Arizona law enforcement, the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency and two Brazilian Government owned websites.

Anonymous is yet to release a formal statement outlining its reasons for the hack.

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http://www.bronkerk.nl/page/page.php?ID=1

De site van de Bronkerk te Ugchelen is helaas niet bereikbaar. Dit komt door hackerspraktijken. Wij hopen dat wij zo snel mogelijk contact krijgen met deze hacker.

SPOILER

Om spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.

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https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6502765/antisec01

---- #ANTISEC ---- #ANONYMOUS ---- #HELLOCLOWNS ----

This is the first official #antisec release and within this archive you will find:

* ) Zimbabwean government dumps
* ) Mosman Municipal Council (mosman.nsw.gov.au) dump
* ) Universal Music Group Partners dump 1 & 2 containing umusic.com's user:passwords
and other data
* ) Viacom dump containing internal mapping of Viacom and its servers
* ) Assorted Brazillian Government dumps and passwords

Greetings fellow Anons, Swashbuckers and Lizards.

It has been a week since the LulzBoat lowered the LulzSec flag, she now proudly flies under the #AntiSec colors. Since this day, the movement is organized by a flotilla of independent but allied vessels.

In this short time, the friendly vessels were able to capture copious amounts of booty, all claimed in the name of #AntiSec. Make no mistake: While the LulzBoat is still sailing with us (albeit not with the LulzSec flag), the objective of #AntiSec is different. Despite being still driven by Lulz and therefore also providing them, the mission has become larger than us. #AntiSec is more than Lulz and more than even Anonymous: It is our true belief that this movement has the capability to change the world. And should that fail, we will at least rock the world.

Thus, the introductory #AntiSec release (dubbed AntiSec-001) does not contain the type of data that a typical Lulz Lizard can just abuse mindlessly. Instead, we provide material that is primarily against corrupt Governments (in our world this is all Governments) and corrupt companies. And keep in mind: #AntiSec vessels have a very large cache of valuable goods aboard; the crews are currently working hard to sort the loot in a way that even the lousy media sailboats are able to just grab it and sail away for the horizon. You will hear from us very soon.

And always remember: Let it flow and it will flow back to you.

#AntiSec
irc.anonops.li

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AntiSec Slams Arizona Cops (Again) with Super Personal Data Spill

Looks like last week's "Chinga La Migra" strike against the Arizona Border Police was only part one—the sequel's landed today, and this time it's personal. Like, really personal: Anonymous is claiming social security numbers, girlfriend pics, and more. [...]

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In this second bulletin, we're dumping booty pirated from a dozen Arizona police officer's personal email accounts looking specifically for humiliating dirt. This leak has names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, social security numbers, online dating account info, voicemails, chat logs, and seductive girlfriend pictures belonging to a dozen Arizona police officers. We found more internal police reports, cops forwarding racist chain emails, k9 drug unit cops who use percocets, and a convicted sex offender who was part of FOP Maricopa Lodge Five.

We also hit the AZDPS spokesperson Stephen Harrison who been bragging to the news about how they are upgrading their security and how they will catch the evil hackers who exposed them. Clearly not secure enough, because we owned his personal hotmail, facebook and match.com accounts and dumped all his personal details for the world to see. The same fate will meet anyone else who tries to paint us as terrorists in an Orwellian attempt to pass more pro-censorship or racial-profiling police state laws.

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Security researchers discover 'indestructible' botnet

More than four million PCs have been enrolled in a botnet security experts say is almost "indestructible".

The botnet, known as TDL, targets Windows PCs and is difficult to detect and shut down.

Code that hijacks a PC hides in places security software rarely looks and the botnet is controlled using custom-made encryption.

Security researchers said recent botnet shutdowns had made TDL's controllers harden it against investigation.

The 4.5 million PCs have become victims over the last three months following the appearance of the fourth version of the TDL virus.

The changes introduced in TDL-4 made it the "most sophisticated threat today," wrote Kaspersky Labs security researchers Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov in a detailed analysis of the virus.

"The owners of TDL are essentially trying to create an 'indestructible' botnet that is protected against attacks, competitors, and anti-virus companies," wrote the researchers.

Recent successes by security companies and law enforcement against botnets have led to spam levels dropping to about 75% of all e-mail sent, shows analysis by Symantec.

A botnet is a network of home computers that have been infected by a virus that allows a hi-tech criminal to use them remotely. Often botnet controllers steal data from victims' PCs or use the machines to send out spam or carry out other attacks.

The TDL virus spreads via booby-trapped websites and infects a machine by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. The virus has been found lurking on sites offering porn and pirated movies as well as those that let people store video and image files.
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It's definitely one of the most sophisticated botnets out there”

Joe Stewart

The virus installs itself in a Windows system file known as the master boot record. This file holds the list of instructions to get a computer started and is a good place to hide because it is rarely scanned by standard anti-virus programs.

The majority of victims, 28%, are in the US but significant numbers are in India (7%) and the UK (5%). Smaller numbers, 3%, are found in France, Germany and Canada.

However, wrote the researchers, it is the way the botnet operates that makes it so hard to tackle and shut down.

The makers of TDL-4 have cooked up their own encryption system to protect communication between those controlling the botnet. This makes it hard to do any significant analysis of traffic between hijacked PCs and the botnet's controllers.

In addition, TDL-4 sends out instructions to infected machines using a public peer-to-peer network rather than centralised command systems. This foils analysis because it removes the need for command servers that regularly communicate with infected machines.

"For all intents and purposes, [TDL-4] is very tough to remove," said Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks to Computerworld. "It's definitely one of the most sophisticated botnets out there."

However, the sophistication of TDL-4 might aid in its downfall, said the Kaspersky researchers who found bugs in the complex code. This let them pry on databases logging how many infections TDL-4 had racked up and was aiding their investigation into its creators.

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Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks

Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flowing.

Earlier this week members of the hacker collective, and specifically a sub-group known as the People’s Liberation Front, (PLF) launched two new leaking sites, LocalLeaks.tk (not to be confused with the similarly named Localeaks.com) and HackerLeaks.tk. Both hope to receive documents through anonymous submission channel, analyze them, and then distribute them to the press to get “maximum exposure and political impact.”

But while LocalLeaks aims to use WikiLeaks’ model of insider sources to expose corruption on the local scale, HackerLeaks openly invites data thieves to upload documents through its submission system, so that they can be analyzed and publicized. “You download it, we’ll disclose it for you,” the site’s homepage reads, listing potential booty such as “databases, exploits, security flaws, documents, and email spools.”

On Tuesday, according to one of the hackers involved who goes by the name Commander X, the leaking site got its first submission: a list of the personal details of Orlando officials including addresses, home values, incomes and other data. That “leak,” which Commander X says was submitted anonymously to HackerLeaks but posted, confusingly, on LocalLeaks, comes as Anonymous has been in the middle of what it calls “Operation Orlando.” Since early Tuesday hackers have been launching attacks on Orlando-based targets including OrlandoFloridaGuide.com and the websites of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and Universal Studios in retaliation for arrests of Orlando workers for the non-profit Food Not Bombs who lacked permits.

“These are the folks that wrote and are enforcing a very brutal law against very poor people,” Commander X, who says he is serving as the current “editor in chief” of the two sites, wrote to me over instant message. ”They themselves appear to be very very rich, so we thought we would point that out.”

And why is a leaking site necessary for hackers, who have lately used sites like Pastebin to publish information on their own? Commander X argues that Anonymous and the PLF already have connections to press that can help better expose important data, and that they hope to also provide “unique and enlightening analysis.”

“We just wanted to make our own offering, compete in the disclosure marketplace and maybe fill a unique role if we can,” writes Commander X. He argues that part of that unique role is that HackerLeaks will be legal, despite publishing hacked materials. “We don’t obtain this material. We merely publish it. This violates no sane law anywhere.”

That’s an argument that sound much like the one used by WikiLeaks, which has also published hacked data including Sarah Palin’s emails and East Anglia University’s stolen emails related to climate change.

But that legal stance may be a tough sell for Commander X of all people. Although he refused to comment on whether he had engaged directly in illegal hacking, he describes himself as “field commander of a global cyber militia” and says that he has had some part in Anonymous operations that have involved attacks on Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal in retaliation for their severing ties with WikiLeaks, as well as attacks on the governments of Tunisia, Iran, and Egypt.

Commander X was also named by HBGary Federal chief executive Aaron Barr in a planned presentation to out Anonymous’ leaders. But Barr misidentified Commander X, who tells me is a “50ish” American hacker, as Ben De Vries, the founder of a Facebook group called Global Strike 2011. Barr’s digging incited Anonymous to attack HBGary Federal, dumping thousands of its emails in February on a site called AnonLeaks, Anonymous’ first experimentation with a WikiLeaks-like interface. Barr resigned later that month. Commander X says he wasn’t involved in the HBGary hack.

Commander X’s subgroup of Anonymous isn’t the only one that’s getting into the leaking game. The last release from the hacker group LulzSec included half a gigabyte of data from AT&T that has been reported to have come from an insider source at the company.

As part of its ongoing campaign known as AntiSec, aimed at exposing corporate and government data and humiliating security firms, one Anonymous twitter feed suggested earlier this week that leakers contact the group over IRC to spill insider secrets: “If you are working for a corrupt government/company: Leak the data.”

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Report: FBI Raids Home of Woman With LulzSec, Anonymous Ties

When LulzSec closed up shop over the weekend, there were questions as to whether they were running from the authorities. Though no LulzSec-specific arrests have been made, it appears that U.S. authorities are actively pursuing those carrying out these types of hacks.

In an interview with Gawker, 29-year-old Laurelai Bailey said her Iowa home was raided last week by FBI agents looking for dirt on hackers with whom Bailey had been associating. The agents were reportedly looking into the February cyber attack on HBGary Federal carried out by Anonymous.

Bailey said the FBI was there for five hours, and took hard drives, a camera, and other equipment. The agents also asked her if she could infiltrate the hacking community, indicating a particular interest in a hacker known as "Kayla." As far as LulzSec goes, however, Bailey is not exactly their favorite person because she leaked the IRC logs detailing the HBGary Federal attack.

The reported Twitter account for "Kayla" includes a message that says users reaching the feed via Gawker "just got trolled." The LulzSec Exposed blog also claims the raid never happened.

Bailey denied being involved in any illegal hacking activity.

Among one of LulzSec's final targets, meanwhile, was the Arizona Department of Public Safety. In a Monday statement, the agency said LulzSec's demise does not mean it will stop its investigation.

"While the department noted that LulzSec has decided to disband, it does not diminish the intrusion into the privacy of our officers and the release of sensitive information. Nor does this relieve them of their criminal responsibility which may include both federal and state charges," the department said.

The department's email system was compromised during the week of June 20, and data from that system was posted online. "There is no evidence the attack has breached the servers or computer systems of DPS, nor the larger state network. Likewise, there is no evidence that DPS records related to ongoing investigations or other sensitive matters have been compromised," officials said.

At this point, remote access to DPS email remains frozen and the agency now has 24-7 monitoring of its Internet gateway.

For more, see PCMag's Guide to Knowing Your Hackers, as well as 50 Days of Mayhem: How LulzSec Changed Hacktivism Forever, and Did LulzSec Change the Hacking Game, or Just Get Lucky?

Update: The Anonymous collective on Wednesday released a new batch of data stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, which includes everything from Social Security numbers to voicemails.

For more from Chloe, follow her on Twitter @ChloeAlbanesius.

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Google is Your Friend - If You're a Lulzer

While the digital paparazzi were lined up waiting to snap photos of the Lulzboat crew getting vanned, some of us focused on how this collection of low tech script kiddies were able to knock over SONY, AT&T, the CIA, Arizona's DPS and numerous other sites and make off with highly confidential contents again and again.

It turns out that they had an accomplice, Google. Now before the good townspeople grab their torches and pitchforks and beat a hasty path to Mountain View, let it be known that Google's part in these massive hacks isn't actually Google's fault.

Or perhaps it can be if the public still wants to blame them anyway and question why this information is there on Google for the taking in the first place. But that's not really the issue at all.

The blame in my opinion lies once again with the administrators of the sites which were attacked. Google merely indexed the available booty for the lulzers and others and left the cardboard box on the curb where it could be picked up by anyone who drove by.

After all, page crawls weren't considered privileged information - they're all part of the "public internet" available to anyone who drops by.

How could this be? How could Google allow these kids to troll the internet and easily locate SQLi vulnerabilities or remote logins, passwords or even entire databases for the taking without any real effort at all? Simple.

A little thing known as SEO, sitemaps and the little spiders that go bump in the night. Let's look at the problem, along with a few specifics since the bad guys have been doing this for years and years and it's not a secret at all. Then I will explain what site admins can do to see to it that this information is not left at the curb any longer.

The problem:

Copy and paste the following into a Google searches in a new window. I'll wait:

filetype:sql hotmail gmail password

or

inurl:"login.(asp|php) inurl:"id=1"

You can try the above and substitute any of these too:

* userid=
* index=
* form=
* username=

You might even see some major security companies and governments turn up in there. For extra credit, use the "site:your website url here" and see what comes up on yours!

THIS is what the script kiddies do when they do their Google drive-bys. The victims of lulzsec and others fell because of such simple Google searches, and they're made even easier when you have a target URL in mind to play "anybody home?"

As long as Google has it in their indexes, and you know the keywords to search for sites, then it certainly isn't "nuclear brain science" when an injectable site is found.

There's plenty of tools to automate the attacks on the database behind the site once you know how to POST or GET to it. I've seen apologists claim "we don't use MYSQL."

Rest assured that there are exploit GUI's readily available for PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle as well as lesser and older databases. If it's there, and they can find it, and they can talk to it, and you're not properly filtering what can get to it, your site could very well be the next breaking news story.

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Anonymous, Food Not Bombs to test Orlando police Monday by feeding homeless

Hacker activists with the protest group "Anonymous" have in recent weeks taken down over a half-dozen major Orlando, Florida-based websites and spammed tens of thousands of unsolicited faxes all over the city as a response to an ordinance that prohibits feeding homeless people in public parks.

In a release Friday on the progress of what they called "Operation Orlando," the group insisted that its efforts were in no way connected to the activists with Food Not Bombs (FNB), who've been arrested for feeding the homeless in a city park.

Keith McHenry, who helped found the group 30 years ago, was arrested last week and is still imprisoned. McHenry's view is that food is a right, not a privilege, so he and the group refused to abide by the law.

In response to the arrests, Anonymous toppled the websites of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, the Orlando International Airport, Orlando's fraternal Order of Police, the mayor's reelection site and two popular tourist and events websites featuring the city's attractions.

They have also sent an image (pictured) of Walt Disney mascot Mickey Mouse, face covered by a Guy Fawkes mask, to tens of thousands of fax machines and Orlando-based email addresses, in an effort to drum up support for feeding the homeless.

"[The] Mayor has called us criminals and terrorists," the hackers wrote, in an advisory. "We'll own the criminal label. All revolutionaries are by definition criminals."

They added that they hoped to "follow in the footsteps" of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by creating "a way to wage war peacefully," which they believe to have accomplished. They also demanded that McHenry be released and the city's ordinance be repealed, or they would continue their hacking campaign.

Anonymous's release also noted that FNB plans to be out in Orlando at 9 a.m. on Monday, July 4, to continue their work by feeding homeless people in the park -- publicly flouting the city's law, which could cause officers to swoop in and make arrests.

"Come to protest, or to serve food with FNB," Anonymous urged. "Or bring your own tables and food and serve beside them. [We] call upon all our brother and sister Anons in Florida to don your masks and do the same."

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http://paste2.org/p/1499524

So, this is a little ironic. Here is inside details of florida voting systems. Now.. who still believes voting isn't rigged? If the United States Government can't even keep their ballot systems secure, why trust them at all? FAIL!

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Florida voting database leaked, can they keep anything safe?

Florida has seen its 2nd leak today, 1st being here with both leaks being done by @Abhaxas via twitter.

This one is from the voting system and consist of candidates , races , poll worker users details, voter stats and is dated upto 2010. Although it may not be totally vital now, it gives an insight to the operations that go on behind the scenes and the people involved.


This just goes to show how unsecure so many government office’s are and they need to learn a big lesson and start protecting the clients information and data about the companys and its business actions.

Orginal post here:

http://pastebin.com/CCN3u7CV

or

http://paste2.org/followup/1499524

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#OPesr; Anonymous files Lawsuit against the FED

#OPesr; Anonymous files Lawsuite against the FED

This is a message from Anonymous to you.

We cordially invite any and all, Anonymous and non-anons, to join OpESR in demanding Federal Reserve accountability.

We are crafting a class action lawsuit against the Fed.

Can you provide legal and research support?

Please respond by submitting a http://typewith.me pad to one of our *connectors in Anonymous.

If you can help us, get in contact with one of our *connectors by logging into our public chat area at: http://A99.FSS34.COM

This is a class action lawsuit against the private Federal Reserve Bank and it's shareholders.

It falls under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970 for criminal acts of Fraud, Usury, Conspiracy to commit Grand Larceny and Theft by Deception, and for systematically looting the Treasury of The United States of America for a total that has yet to be determined.

For nearly 100 years, The Federal Reserve Bank has debased and debauched our currency by illegally authorizing an ODIOUS DEBT to be encumbered by our citizens without their knowledge, or in any way for their collective benefit.

The Fed, allowed Banks to defraud the American public, so as to leave them living like refugees in their own land. This ruthless cabal now has the temerity to pass off this ODIOUS DEBT to the American people, thereby destroying not only our future, but Americas' ability to be a free, sovereign nation.

The US Constitution says we have to go against domestic enemies.

The Fed, allowed this crisis to happen, they allowed banks to kick you out of your homes to pay their bills.

The Fed, allowed people to live on the streets, hungry.

And the Fed, got paid for it.

Something is very wrong, don't you think.

So, are you going to stay seated in front of your TV, PC or whatever and let them do whatever they want?

COME ON! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

DO SOMETHING, NOT JUST FOR YOU, BUT FOR YOUR SOCIETY!

For your children, for your children's children!

Or they are destined to be enslaved by a fraudulent national debt created by the greed of the 1.

So, Anonymous or not, it doesn't matter.

What we ask is that you spread the Truth and take ACTION!

WE ARE ANONYMOUS.

WE DO NOT FORGIVE.

WE DO NOT FORGET.

EXPECT US."

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On More Effective Doxing

N.B. This is largely in response to LulzSec Exposed (Team Web Ninjas) post about Gawker’s Adrian Chen getting information wrong.

I dislike writing tl;dr sorts of things, but I felt that it was necessary to say something. I realize that there are many people out there who are currently engaged in the hunt for LulzSec/#antisec/Anonymous and are publishing various dox in the hopes of outing members so that they will stop their activities and/or are arrested. However, there has been a plethora of both misinformation and disinformation spread regarding the identities of these people. While I understand the desire to uncover some truly useful information and reveal it in the showiest way possible, there is an important consideration to be made: whether or not those dox are actually correct. There are a number of people who have, for whatever reason, been incorrectly doxed as members of LulzSec/Anonymous/whatever else and have been harassed as a consequence. I believe that the continued spread of incorrect dox will only contribute to additional collateral damage. There are some simple things that any researcher can do to help stem the flow of misinformation and make the doxing process more effective for everyone.

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AnonymousIRC AnonymousIRC
We've been sitting on pepper.nl database for a while. Didn't want to abuse it but if we have it, someone worse has, too. Better tell you.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 15:59 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Nu zal er vast een zeker een onderzoek komen naar wie de hackers zijn etc etc. Maar zullen ze nu ook onderzoek gaan doen naar pepper.nl die gewoon zeer slecht zijn omgegaan met de persoonlijke gegevens van hun users?

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http://webwereld.nl/nieuw(...)te-rtl---update.html
De wachtwoorden zijn wel gehashed, maar volgens kenners zijn de wachtwoorden redelijk eenvoudig te achterhalen. Wie kan inloggen, kan vervolgens de zeer privacygevoelige en persoonlijke berichten van de gebruikers lezen.

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RedHack Press Release 03/07/11

Our people from all nationalities and Revolutionary,
Democrat, Patriotic and Opposition Comrades,

Since 1997 our objective is, to be the “common voice” of revolutionaries in digital arena and have carried out our actions according to this strategy. On the anniversary of Sivas Massacre which took place on 2nd July 1993 and resulted in death of thirty-five intellectuals, singer, authors and poets; we have hacked hundreds of websites belongs to Adnan Oktar also known as Harun Yahya bigot and collaborating fascist websites in order to announce that we have not forgotten this massacre and will not let it be forgotten. We have also taken opportunity to highlight the censorship laws due to take effect in Turkey and strongly protest this. We deface 1000+ domain for anti-censorship

Adnan Oktar is responsible of forced shutdown of lots of sites in Turkey. He has send a police to the addresses of online dictionary writers and got them arrested just because they have criticised him. While we are engaged in the activities of AntiSec, it has been our honour to show our reaction in the name of our people, to stop this vile bigoted man who uses his estate and his money for his paranoid and fascist ideas. (WordPress.com has been blocked by Turkey 2007.) It has been our honour to show our reaction in the name of our people, to stop this vile bigoted man who uses his estate and his money for his paranoid and fascist ideas, while we are engaged in the activities of AntiSec.

These attacks have taken place to send a clear message to the authorities and the canines of the system that we are still strong and will do everything in our power to raise our voice against the censorship laws which are an attack to our human rights. We will act together with AntiSec and Anons to continue our fight against the hands that are reaching to silence our internet.
We will also announce the server data and the details of this hacking operation in the future.

Acronym of the defacement (hacking) text:

The Perpetrators of the Sivas Massacre are still amongst us!
We have not forgotten! We will ask for the account of this massacre!

It’s been 16 years since this massacre took place and the perpetrators are not far away from us, they are the ones who governs us.

Who are the murderers?
The President of Turkey Abdullah Gul; defender of 6th Navy Fleet of USA while they were poured out to the sea in 1969 by the revolutionaries.

Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the servant of USA under oath, the loyal guard of Imperialism, the enemy of the working class of Turkey, ruler of Greater Middle East Initiative.

The murderers are the defenders of military coups, spokesperson of USA’s Moderate Islam project such as Feytullah Gulen and Adnan Oktar whose brains are full of pornography.
(Addressed to Adnan Oktar)

You believe you are a man by operating hundreds of websites that spreads groundless articles and claim that they are an “opinion” through stealing from ordinary people by using the religion. You act instantly to shut down the sites which are opposing you. We heard that you were so proud that your sites never been hacked. You have chosen a duty of silencing the opposition by hiding behind those in power and even send the security forces to addresses that criticise you. We have a duty to be against this and used our legitimate right of defence. You attack the common values of intellectuals by swearing at Darwin theory and Che Guevera, do you know who they are? Answer is clear, no you don’t you bigoted man. Put this in your mind Adnan Oktar, you have gone a step too far. The internet and this world are not unclaimed. Neither your people in power nor any of your forces are capable of stopping us. It is legitimate to resist against oppression and censorship.

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Anonymous OperationGreenRights Pressrelease: Bayer

To The Bayer AG Corporation:

Anonymous sees your crimes and will not let them go unpunished. You have won our attention after decades of greedy abuses of humanity and nature. Bayer‐ we see you profiting off of death and destruction! We see you escape unscathed from justice! Bayer AG pharmaceutical (formerly known as IG Farben) has been involved in countless corporate abuses, which have resulted in the death of thousands in the last century. These abuses have been consistently ignored, and cannot be ignored further. Bayer’s victims are diverse and widespread, however all these deaths have been as a direct result of Bayer’s exploitive nature. These abuses include: disregard to proper and thorough investigation of chemicals, vaccines and substances; the employment of Nazi war criminals; the destruction of the environment,

and much more. Anonymous places the following crimes and accusations at the feet of Bayer. We at Anonymous are here to make you more famous, Bayer; We want your name on the lips of lads and Lords.

The grim history of Bayer:

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Music Rights Groups Raided By Police, Bosses Arrested For Fraud

In a massive operation, Spanish music rights and anti-piracy groups SGAE and SDAE have been raided by more than 50 police officers and tax officials. Operation Saga is the culmination of a two-year investigation into embezzlement, fraud, and misappropriation of funds, the latter connected to SGAE and SDAE collecting money on behalf of artists and spending it with companies they have interests in. The president of SGAE was among 9 people arrested.

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Fox News's hacked Twitter feed declares Obama dead

Rogue 4 July tweets on TV news channel's politics service go viral but Fox News is apparently back in control

Fox News has apparently fallen victim to hacking, with its politics Twitter feed repeatedly announcing President Barack Obama had been shot dead.

@foxnewspolitics began tweeting the information to its 33,000 followers at about 2am local time, with the posts rapidly being shared around the internet.

The rogue tweets appeared to begin after the account sent a message saying Fox had just "regained full access to our Twitter account".

The following tweets all related to the supposed death of Obama, with some posts being very specific about the president's injuries.

"@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead," came the first tweet. The string of messages continued:

"@BarackObama has just passed. Nearly 45 minutes ago, he was shot twice in the lower pelvic area and in the neck; shooter unknown. Bled out", and then: "@BarackObama shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa while campaigning. RIP Obama, best regards to the Obama family."

Whatever the hoaxer's identity, they do not appear to have been entirely web-savvy. The first three posts revealing the president's death were directed to the @BarackObama Twitter feed, meaning only those following both accounts would have seen the messages.

The unknown tweeter appeared to realise the error of their ways, switching tack to post three more tweets that would have been seen by all followers:

"#ObamaDead, it's a sad 4th of July. RT to support the late president's family, and RIP. The shooter will be found;

"BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP;

"We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there's light at the end of tunnel."

Fox News was not immediately available for comment.

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Op maandag 4 juli 2011 10:51 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Ik vind het kwalijkste eigenlijk dat die hackers die e-mailadressen gewoon online hebben gegooid.

Unethic hacking is zo not done.

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Op maandag 4 juli 2011 14:11 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Normaal worden je gegevens gestolen en kom je er zelf waarschijnlijk nooit achter dat iemand anders jou gegevens heeft. Dankzij deze kids die de laatste alles hacken wat maar te hacken valt, en vervolgens alle gestolen data gewoon online zetten ziet de grote massa wel dat het slecht gesteld is met de beveiliging van de gemiddelde internetsite.

Dit alles zal denk ik alleen maar positieve invloed hebben op de beveiliging van internet sites, het is natuurlijk zeer slechte reclame voor je site als je database leeg getrokken wordt en vervolgens online wordt gezet. Verder zal de gemiddelde gebruiker ook wel even beter nadenken wat voor persoonlijke gegevens hij plaatst op welke sites.

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Ook jij staat in superdatabase van Brits bedrijf

Het Britse conglomeraat WPP heeft een database gemaakt met daarin de profielen van 500 miljoen internetters. De superdatabase, naar eigen zeggen de grootste ter wereld, heeft een dekking van bijna 100 procent van de Nederlanders die online zijn. Kom je op internet, dan weet dit bedrijf wat je doet en wie je bent.

WPP bestaat uit een groot aantal reclame- en communicatiebedrijven, die op hun beurt weer samenwerken met derden, waaronder internetgiganten als Google. Het verzamelt informatie over internetters bij bezoek aan bepaalde websites. Leeftijd, geslacht, interesses, koopgedrag, soms zelfs huisadressen, zijn enkele zaken die WPP registreert en doorverkoopt aan veel grote adverteerders.

Of in de toekomst 100 procent van de Nederlandse internetters geregistreerd blijven in de gigantische database, is nog maar de vraag. De Tweede Kamer ging onlangs akkoord met de nieuwe Telecomwet. Daardoor is ook formeel vastgelegd dat er strengere eisen worden gesteld aan websites voor het plaatsen van cookies op de computer van de internetgebruiker. Met cookies, kleine tekstbestanden, worden gegevens over het surfgedrag en persoonlijke voorkeuren van internetgebruikers geregistreerd. Ook kan zo worden bijgehouden welke producten door internetters in een winkelwagentje zijn gedaan. WPP werkt met cookies, maar ook met andere technieken om aan data over internetters te komen.

'Op internet zijn veel websites gratis, omdat adverteerders hun boodschap willen communiceren', zegt directeur Brian Lesser van Xasis, het bedrijf dat voor WPP de database beheert, in The Independent. 'Wij ondersteunen deze interneteconomie om deze bedrijven hun doelgroep te geven.' Volgens Lesser zijn alle gegevens geanonimiseerd.

Privacy-belangenorganisatie Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is toch ongerust. 'Als je weet welke websites iemand bezoekt is het vrij eenvoudig om achter de identiteit van die persoon te komen', zegt John Buckman van EFF. Volgens de organisatie zou de superdatabase ook zeer interessant zijn voor hackers.

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NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked !

Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.

They Leak a Backup of Random 2,646 files from Server as Proof of Hack . The archive uploaded by hackers is available at http://www.mediafire.com/?s2chp1v2jqsf52z .

We talk to Team Inj3ct0r about this hack They said :1.) The Reason of Hacking is “Nuclear weapons. its development and financing”2.) They hack Tomcat 5.5 Server using 1337day privat exploit (0day) .3.) They get the root privilege to the Server.4.) They are able to Deface the website of NATO also, but they will not do this. They have just take the backup of server and trying to distribute that on Internet.

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 12:31 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Als je een beetje een leek bent zou je denken dat ze een Apache helikopter hebben gehackt

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Valt trouwens wel op dat die geuploade bestanden met daarin de gestolen data altijd behoorlijk lang nog op die file hosting sites blijft hangen...

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Amerikaanse Secret Service jaagt op hacker Fox News

De Amerikaanse Secret Service, belast met de bewaking van president Barack Obama, onderzoekt de zes valse tweets over een moord op Obama. Een woordvoerder van de Secret Service heeft dat gisteren (lokale tijd) gezegd.

Hackers verstuurden de tweets gisteren, nadat ze de Twitteraccount van de populaire tv-zender Fox News hadden gekraakt. Een zekere 'Script Kiddie' schreef dat Obama was gestorven door twee kogels. Fox News kon de valse mails pas 10 uur later verwijderen.

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 16:23 schreef joepie91 het volgende:
http://thenextweb.com/eu/(...)talian-police-raids/

[..]

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 17:29 schreef joepie91 het volgende:

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Mja, je moet toch wat als je als landelijke politiemacht niet voor lul wilt staan omdat je een organisatie die geen organisatie is niet aankunt?

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 17:32 schreef joepie91 het volgende:

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Mja goed, het werd eens tijd dat dat het geval was...

YouTube- Yoda YOU WILL BE.wmv

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PyroBatNL
De gegevens van de politiebond: phttp://pastebin.com/y0VVMkPv politiebond.nl is gehackt door leden #AnonOps
19 minutes ago

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lysgu Lsygu Ntpfor
look who's back RT “@_TeaMp0isoN_ As I previously tweeted: Retweet this for #anonops IRC, proof we're not dead - pastie.org/private/h6zibm…”

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FBI Raids Home of Ohio Man Linked to Hacker Group

U.S. authorities raided the home of a Hamilton, Ohio, man who appeared to have links to the hacker group LulzSec, as a probe into recent high-profile computer attacks gained momentum.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the home Monday, an FBI spokesman confirmed without providing any further detail. A person close to the matter said the arrested man is an alleged LulzSec member.

U.S. authorities in recent months have conducted dozens of searches as part of investigations into Anonymous, a loosely knit group of cyber activists, and splinter group LulzSec.

The groups have claimed responsibility for a number of attacks against companies and government organizations. That has prompted a global law-enforcement crackdown on the groups that has included waves of arrests across Europe and in Turkey.

British police, who are cooperating with the FBI, have made seven arrests this year as part of their probe. That includes 19-year old Ryan Cleary who had been a prominent figure in Anonymous and then LulzSec. U.K. prosecutors last week charged him with five computer-related offenses. Authorities allege he infected computers in order to form a computer network, called a botnet, that he then used to launch online attacks against websites including that of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, a U.K. equivalent of the FBI.

Essex-based Mr. Cleary, who is out on bail, is co-operating with police, his lawyer said. The lawyer added that Mr. Cleary has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a form of autism. The other six individuals arrested in the U.K. have been released on bail and haven't been charged.

LulzSec recently claimed to identify a couple of individuals it said had "tried to snitch" on the group. LulzSec appeared to reveal the full names, addresses and other contact information of two U.S. men it said were involved in criminal hacks. That included details of a person going by the nickname "m_nerva" who LulzSec claimed came from Hamilton, Ohio.

The individual identified by LulzSec, who apparently had a falling out with the group, couldn't be reached for comment.

LulzSec recently said it was ending its campaigns under that banner, but members have since joined a group within Anonymous called "AntiSec," short for "antisecurity."

Anonymous is well-known to U.S. law enforcement. By late last year, the FBI was investigating attacks by Anonymous members against the movie and recording-industry when the group also started targeting individuals and organizations that had tangled with document-sharing website WikiLeaks.

In January, FBI agents conducted searches of more than 40 residences across the U.S. No arrests were announced following those searches. The bureau is also probing subsequent hacks, including of Sony Corp. and HBGary Federal LLC, and an attack on FBI-affiliated organization InfraGuard. The FBI spokesman declined to comment on the probe.

In April, the FBI raided the home of Darrin Lantz in Gig Harbor, Wash., according to court filings. Authorities suspect Mr. Lantz was involved in an Anonymous campaign against websites belonging to Gene Simmons, of rock band Kiss, in retaliation for anti-piracy comments he made, court filings say.

Authorities say the attacks knocked Mr. Simmons's websites offline for 36 hours, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage as a result of downtime and costs associated with changing computer servers and website hosts. During one strike, Mr. Lantz's computer attacked a website 48,471 times during a 47-minute period, authorities said.

Mr. Lantz, who hasn't been charged, didn't respond to a request for comment.

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 18:40 schreef joepie91 het volgende:

Veel geblaat, weinig wol. Ryan had vrijwel niets met Lulzsec te maken en was zeker geen "prominent lid", en de raid op Laurelai was waarschijnlijk een onzinverhaal (oftewel misinfo).

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Leaked proposals reveal UK web censorship plans
Result of closed-door discussions

Ed Vaizey, the UK's Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has been taking part in closed meetings with copyright lobbyists, apparently working on a proposal that could amount to internet censorship.

Leaked online, the proposed "voluntary website blocking" scheme would "inhibit access to specific sites" based on the opinions of "expert bodies" and through shotgun court hearings.

Ed Vaizey has already admitted in parliament that he has held a number of roundtables with ISPs but public interest organisations like the Open Rights Group who asked to attend the meetings were denied access.

Industry bias

The document relates to copyright infringement, but has also been linked to online child safety and there are fears that it could become a one-stop-censorship-shop for anything this "expert body" deems inappropriate.

Other rights-holding organisations involved in the talks include the Football Association, the Publishers Associations, the Motion Picture Association and music industry execs.

While these organisations are keen to protect their own content and stamp out online piracy, rights infringement and plagiarism, the fact that only one group with the interests of the average consumer have been invited to participate in just one session poses a real concern.

Access to the open internet is gradually becoming a human rights issue, and taking on only the views of a biased few when discussing actively blocking websites could have longterm repercussions for Brits.

Human rights

The Digital Economy Act has already proposed blocking sites for copyright infringement, but it's an act that has been the subject of much debate and concern among web-users and some ISPs.

As the Open Rights Group says, "Open policy making that takes on board the broadest range of views is not something within the gift of politicians but a responsibility they bear."

"It is critical that policy making happens through a broad and open public debate, especially on matters that so tangibly affect rights such as access to information and freedom of expression.

"This is not simply about the rights of 'sites that facilitate infringement' or those running them. It is about the processes through which decisions are made about what you are allowed to see and do. Clumsy, quasi-judicial and unaccountable website blocking is dangerous for exactly that reason."

Via BoingBoing

Read more: http://www.techradar.com/(...)969390#ixzz1RFa6X5uT

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Op dinsdag 5 juli 2011 18:45 schreef joepie91 het volgende:

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Wacht, kan zijn dat die in Ohio m_nerva was, en niet Laurelai... m_nerva was inderdaad gedoxt door Lulzsec voor zover ik weet, en heeft idd een bezoekje van de FBI gehad. Laurelai was al eerder aangewezen door Anonymous (ivm de puinzooi die hij/zij aangericht had met Anonleaks), maar die is dus niet geraid, en heeft zelf waarschijnlijk misinfo lopen verspreiden.

Ik ben even kwijt welke van de twee in Ohio woonde

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Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker

[quote]It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting laughter at the victim of a prank. For 50 days until it disbanded, the group's unique blend of humour, taunting and unapologetic data theft made it notorious. But knowing whether LulzSec was all about the "lulz" or if it owed more to its roots as part of Anonymous – the umbrella group of internet subculture and digital activism – was pure speculation. Until now.

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http://pastebin.com/TvSxycCf

To all friendly and enemy vessels,

Today we want to introduce you to Nimbuzz, a Dutch company providing a free
mobile messaging application carrying the same name. This company is not
situated in just the Netherlands as they have offices in Argentina, India,
Indonesia and all over Europe. So why does this company interest us? Well,
simply put, they are capable and self-admittingly willing to co-operate with
governments to help censor the public's use of the very service they offer.

Now it should be noted that some of our blackhat friends who are extensively
involved in the AntiSec movement have had access to this company's networks for
some time. Their access to this network is best described as complete access to
everything in their network including all of their source code on Nimbuzz's svn
server. The gross incompetence of the security model put in place for this
server astounded even us.

We have access to many many networks and because of this we have to prioritize
what is of interest or use to us (or you, the public that we love so much).
However, we had some friends bring it to our attention that this Nimbuzz
company is actually enacting policies that directly go against everything
Antisec stands for. Thus, here we are.

To prove that we aren't making this up here is a document in their CMS
displaying the procedure of how, if requested, they can switch off VOIP
services BY GOVERNMENT REQUEST. A quote from the document:

"In some countries governments and/or operators have reasons for not allowing
VoIP over (mobile) data networks. They may use technical means to active
block and / or throttle the Nimbuzz traffic over their network. This results
in total, partial or severe Nimbuzz service degradation towards the end-user.

When these cases are known, Nimbuzz will open dialogue with the
government/operator. Aim is to resolve the service degradation and restore
quality of service. In return for allowing Nimbuzz service to run properly,
we can offer to switch of VoIP calls on this operator network."

The document goes further to state that Nimbuzz currently blocks all VOIP
traffic in Syria and Egypt and even includes specific data such as IP ranges
given by providers.

This is entirely unacceptable and let's make this perfectly clear:

We DO NOT tolerate any kind of censorship of communication.

We DO NOT tolerate companies working in collusion with governments to stop the
free flow of information

We WILL expose these companies to the public to show how their information can
be manipulated and censored by the governments and corporations that work with
them

Thus, we release the document mentioned above in full as well as some other
information from their CMS. As a bonus we have also acquired some code from the
/trunk directory on their svn. In total we downloaded over 120 Gigabyte of
source code but will not release it..yet.

Take heed, governments that seek to oppose the people who elect them and the
corporations who the people work for - We will not stand idly by while you take
away our electronic and physical freedom.

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid
of their people."

FILE VIEW/DOWNLOAD:

VOIP Block CMS Site: http://pastehtml.com/view/azgwu5ol2.html
AntiBuzz.rar (4.25 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?zj9q7gng34ptais

Mirrors available soon, also to be included in next torrent release. Let it flow!

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2011-07-05 LocalLeaks and HackerLeaks Press Release

First we would like to thank the global media for being so attentive to the launch of our two new disclosure platforms. We would also like to thank the several dozen people who already trusted us with their sensitive leaks. It has been a remarkable week for those of us who staff these two important projects. None of us ever expected in our wildest dreams the enormity of the reaction to these two ideas.

However we have some sobering news to report. Today, Independence Day in the USA no less - our registrar has suspended our Top Level Domains and shut down both sites. Having failed to explain their reasoning we are left to assume that it was our content they didn't like, and so both HackerLeaks and LocalLeaks have been effectively silenced - censored - and shut down.

ImageThe company responsible is located at www.dot.tk and we encourage all free speech and free information advocates to contact this company and let them know exactly how you feel about censorship. We are seeking legal assistance to help us, and if you're a lawyer and can volunteer your time please contact us at PLF@cyber rights.net

We are in process of registering new Top Level Domains for HackerLeaks and LocalLeaks. The sites and the platforms themselves are fine, and anyway we have back-up copies of both sites as well as mirror servers. Both of these important offerings will be back online within 48 hours and this will not stop our project. This censorship has cost nothing other than it has prevented the world from seeing our disclosures and the people from having a safe place to disclose, and that for only a short time. We will return shortly, expect us.

SIGNED -- LocalLeaks & HackerLeaks Team

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Raymond DeRoo
@rderoo
Hi, I am Raymond and due to my gross incompetence I handed our company Nimbuzz to the #antisec movement. They have all of our CMS and SVN content. Yay!

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rderoo Raymond DeRoo
Hello @Nimbuzz, am I gonna keep my job? Just wondering.
15 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

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Anonymous: Bigger, More Contentious, More Chaotic… but Better?

Much has been made about conflicts that have arisen within the hacker community; the main stream media has made sure of that. Stories of rogue programmers sabotaging parts of networks, or supposed splinter groups pursuing alternative agendas have proliferated. Focus has been put on isolated cases, and rumors of questionable provenance, in order to present a negative opinion of Anonymous with the intent of eroding their overwhelming global support and participation.

Differences of opinion about how to achieve shared goals are the lifeblood of progress, even as they appear to be barriers. Any relationship without debate is stagnant. Any opinions discussed without dissension lack foundation. Any operation carried out without the vetting of competing strategies is poorly planned. Conflict and struggle are often necessary for progress, particularly with group dynamics, and the presence of any element of contention proves the growing strength of the Anonymous movement. The media has simply misrepresented positive group dynamics and presented them in a way that supports their anti-Anonymous narrative.

Conflict can be the harbinger of discovery when welcomed by, and dealt with as, a community of peers. The push-and-pull of passionate participants is often chaotic despite the beauty of the resolutions achieved. Democracy, in all its glory, can be a wonderfully messy and disorganized experience.

The influence of any negative elements, or destructive agendas, such as those present in any large community, can find fertile ground in a community that encourages equal participation within a decentralized and non-hierarchical structure. The process of dealing with these issues through inclusion, transparency, and informed debate may have the appearance of vulgarity but results in the sophisticated inclusion of all while identifying negative forces that will be expelled by the group as a whole. It’s quite democratic. Exclusion of dissension, or minority opinion, may have the appearance of efficient deliberation, but the consensus is false and the issues have been left unresolved and ignored. Sometimes you gotta get in and mix it up a little in order to solve a problem and make some progress. This is the nature of an inclusive and egalitarian community.

Anonymous has grown. It is growing exponentially. It is no longer a semi-closed, elite community of anti-Scientology activists or digital pranksters… well, not only (lulz:). The massive increase in the size of the community has brought development and maturity in the community’s sense of purpose and level of effectiveness. It is truly becoming a global community, as dynamic and multifaceted as any, but much more democratic, and far more threatening to the status quo, than others.

Thus, Anonymous is the target of main stream media assaults and the victim of repeated smear campaigns. It is the subject of disdain for politicians and CEOs, and the identified enemy of governments. It is the thorn in the side of corporations and predatory global capitalist. Anonymous unites heads of state from North America and Europe with dictators and tyrants around the world in a common goal of subversion, and censorship, against this entity that threatens their power and control.

The funny thing is, Anonymous is you. Anonymous is all of us. Anonymous is nothing more than a democratic movement of the people of the planet. Decentralized, and non-hierarchical, this movement represents the collective will of the people of this planet. However, as we are discovering, the will of the people is not the same as the will of the power-that-be. Polls of the people say one thing, but our governments always seem to vote with the corporations. People want to end the wars but our governments keep sending our young to be canon fodder for corporate expansion and resource acquisition. The divide between the people of this planet, and those that lord over them, is becoming increasingly apparent, and increasingly unacceptable.

The corporate controlled media will shine a light on those that disagree with, and seek to do harm to, Anonymous, or even those that try to undermine the credibility of Anonymous by assuming that mantle. Every large community has miscreants. The success and progress of Anonymous has not been effected by minor internal strife, quite the contrary, nor has the relentless media campaign achieved its goal. Anonymous has become a global force to be reckoned with, and this is making a lot of very powerful people very anxious.

Those that hold the power, and control the resources, do not want democracy, transparency, equality or emancipation for the people of this planet. This system is working very well for their interests. Anonymous, all of us, you and me, the people of this planet, informed, enlightened, and communicating, is their worst nightmare. We are Anonymous. We are those whom they are using all of their resources, technologies, law enforcement, and political institutions to stop, censor, and silence. We, the people of this planet, have become a serious threat to those that would own each and every one of us (as they do through imposed financial indebtedness to them) as well as our food, our water, and our planet itself.

So, before you buy into the media spin on the supposed problems within Anonymous, or conflict among hackers, take a look at the following videos. These videos are just a sampling of very current Anonymous and AnonOps operations and activities. Anonymous is now able to fight wars on multiple fronts. Anonymous is now able to directly confront some of the largest and most powerful governments and corporations on the planet. Anonymous is so big it can no longer be hidden like a digital light under a proverbial bushel, nor should it be.

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Visit us on IRC, server irc.anonops.li channel #antisec

We also would like to deliver the following message from Anonymous:

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AnonymousIRC AnonymousIRC
So the word is that admins have been locked out from government servers. http://icdh.gov.tr/

| Let's see when they pull the plug. #AntiSec

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Anonymous eyes political role, but won't go legit

Hacker group Anonymous plans to promote an affiliated political party to attract people who share its civil liberties goals, but do not agree with its methods.

The move appears similar to those by many protest movements that floated legal organizations and parties to represent their case in political, social and legal forums. But the decentralized nature of Anonymous, which claims no central leaders or control structure, will likely make it difficult to get support from all members.

There's some evidence of that already.

Anonymous had earlier said in a video that it will stop hacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, and will restructure the system from the inside. "Although these methods were effective in turning the media's attention to civil rights violations when our numbers were small, and we had limited options, we now have the numbers to make a difference legally," it said.

Message From TheAnonParty

The video posted on July 4 on YouTube did not go down well with some group members. It also did not prevent Antisec, a movement led by Anonymous, from hacking and defacing websites in Turkey on Wednesday.

"This (party) is just another group that wants to support the goals of Anonymous. It isn't going to replace it," said Testudo Smith, a spokesman for the group behind the push to form a political party.

Smith said the group's mission at this point is to set up an advocacy group to provide Anonymous with legal channels with which it can fight for its goals of Internet freedom and civil rights. These legal channels are what Anonymous is most lacking at the moment, he added.

A website set up for the Anonymous Party of America sets out a broad agenda for a political party that is largely focused on U.S. politics, and will work towards transparency and accountability in government, individual rights, and common sense. It calls on "any Congressman or Senator that has any honor left, to resign from their corrupted parties and join our call for and end to the present system".

The group might find it difficult to gain legitimacy if other hackers, under the banner of Anonymous, continue to carry out attacks on the websites and networks of companies and organizations.

Smith admitted that getting all hackers to support his group's goals would be difficult.

"We have no control over Anonymous as a whole. There aren't any leaders, and it would be futile to attempt to control Anonymous," Smith said.

But should the political pressure group gain widespread support, the group has grander plans.

"Eventually, when we have enough support, and if we think that it is the best way to make a political impact, then we will register ourselves," Smith said. That's in the very long term though, he added.

Anonymous has been the target of police actions in some countries, including Turkey, Spain, Italy, and the U.K. It also found itself alienated from the mainstream population that supports Internet freedom and individual rights, but were not in favor of the group's methods.

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http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6525567

Today we release the ownage of another government-contracted IT company, IRC
Federal. They brag about their multi-million dollar partnership with the FBI,
Army, Navy, NASA, and the Department of Justice, selling out their "skills" to
the US empire. So we laid nuclear waste to their systems, owning their pathetic
windows box, dropping their databases and private emails, and defaced their
professional looking website.

In their emails we found various contracts, development schematics, and internal
documents for various government institutions including a proposal for the FBI
to develop a "Special Identities Modernization (SIM) Project" to "reduce
terrorist and criminal activity by protecting all records associated with
trusted individuals and revealing the identities of those individuals who may
pose serious risk to the United States and its allies". We also found
fingerprinting contracts for the DOJ, biometrics development for the military,
and strategy contracts for the "National Nuclear Security Administration
Nuclear Weapons Complex".

Additionally we found login info to various VPNs and several Department of
Energy login access panels that we are dumping *live* complete with some URLs
to live ASP file browser and upload backdoors - let's see how long it takes for
them to remove it (don't worry we'll keep putting it back up until they pull
the box ;D)

Before we begin the drop, a personal message to the employees of IRC Federal:

If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy
and start working against it. Stop aiding the corporations and a government
which uses unethical means to corner vast amounts of wealth and proceed
to flagrantly abuse their power. Together, we have the power to change
this world for the better.

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps
to perpetuate it.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

Props to our black hat and antisec comrades: bantown, dikline,
h0no, phrack high council, ~el8 and all you kick-ass motherfuckers
we've never even heard of. Thank you.


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ello ej33t hax0urz! We decided to throw in a little bonus for those of you that
sojourned through this boring-ass document to give you a little taste (and
hopefully some ideas!) of how this went down.

Before you Adrian Lamo-type el33t (lololol !!!) hackers get sticks up your
asses, just keep the previous doc in mind and remember: even if all you can do
is sql injection, you're still ~300% more talented than most grandmas!
h0h00h0h0!!! (srsly tho)

http://www.ircfederal.com(...)0select%201,username,
mynumber,1%20FROM%20logins%20WHERE%20username%20%3C%3E%20%27bhunt%27

# admin login!

Once we had the admin login, there was a script to upload images. They had
blacklisted extensions (note to self: a whitelist would be more appropriate
here!), that disallowed ASP among others. What they didn't check for was .cfm

There were a few others as well. There was an internal phpbb database that we
downloaded and cracked and got some email passwords.

So now you know! Protect your shit and keepz it realz!

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2011 00:24 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Bestond Anon al in 2008?

Message to Scientology