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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: garrettg84 on June 16, 2011, 06:40:12 AM

Title: LulzSec
Post by: garrettg84 on June 16, 2011, 06:40:12 AM
http://linearfix.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/lulzsec-takes-down-cia/ (http://linearfix.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/lulzsec-takes-down-cia/)

So, anybody following the LulzSec news? It is interesting that they seem to have gotten into it with another hacker th3j3st3r (the jester). While I know it does look like a bit of chest puffing and childish antics, they have hit some pretty high profile sites. Just to name a few...

PBS
CIA
FBI
FOX
Sony
The US Senate

There are others. This crew seems to be pretty skilled. Among their other attacks, they set up phone lines receiving phone calls and harassed the callers as well as forwarded thousands of calls on in a phone bombing attack. It doesn't seem that any of the US intelligence agencies have their finger on these guys yet. I think that is a little scary.


Anyone else seen anything interesting about this stuff going on I haven't listed?
Title: Re: LulzSec
Post by: Admin on June 16, 2011, 07:24:44 AM
Yea, I've been seeing it in the news too.

After hitting the CIA, FBI, a lawyers office, and many very rich/powerful companies, who thinks these hackers aren't going to find themselves in prison for a very *long* time? They are kicking hornets nests as if they are immune, and for seemingly no good reason other than to get 'lulz'.

That's my 2 cents. Plus, I'm bitter about all the daily spam attacks on SoR :P
Title: Re: LulzSec
Post by: voyager2 on June 23, 2011, 04:53:56 AM
Yea, I've been seeing it in the news too.

After hitting the CIA, FBI, a lawyers office, and many very rich/powerful companies, who thinks these hackers aren't going to find themselves in prison for a very *long* time? They are kicking hornets nests as if they are immune, and for seemingly no good reason other than to get 'lulz'.

That's my 2 cents. Plus, I'm bitter about all the daily spam attacks on SoR :P
The best and most rewarding way to kill spammers is to send the spam back, then complain to their email provider.
Works every time  ;)
If 'LulzSec' or some other disruptive group, attacked me with a DoS , I would set up a redirect and send all traffic/DoS to their website, and DoS them (Probably wouldn't work though  :P )
Title: Re: LulzSec
Post by: garrettg84 on June 23, 2011, 05:27:07 AM
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062211-lulzsec.html (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062211-lulzsec.html)

Based on that article, the only thing 'the authorities' could pick up was a kid that was running one (of many) of LulzSec's IRC servers. They touted it as arresting a member of LulzSec. Amusing some of the best 'intelligence' agencies in the world haven't made a move yet. I wonder what their angle is.
Title: Re: LulzSec
Post by: madsci1016 on June 23, 2011, 06:36:31 AM
The best and most rewarding way to kill spammers is to send the spam back, then complain to their email provider.
Works every time  ;)

No it doesn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog)
Title: Re: LulzSec
Post by: voyager2 on June 23, 2011, 08:29:52 PM
The best and most rewarding way to kill spammers is to send the spam back, then complain to their email provider.
Works every time  ;)
No it doesn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog)
Well its always worked for me, mind you , I don't get 100 emails a day or anything...