Probably Switzerland, the hacker capital of the world…
Anonymous is taking on the Mexican Drug Cartels, after one of their own was kidnapped by the Zeta Cartel.
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Well, he’s dead. I’m sure he’s relieved that his boys have shit well in hand going “We’ll tell on you!” instead of either getting some guns themselves, or getting together with authorities (what the fuck am I saying, Mexico in general is corrupt as fuck…they better just get some guns and break out their wayward nerd)
the victim is dead or a sex slave now. All hope for the victim is lost.
nah these nerds know they aignt got no way to fight a cartel but tattle on an epic scale. note to self…dont fuckin visit mexico…ever.
Either that or put in the pit (the cartels like to kidnap people and make them fight each other). I hope Anon follows through.
I hope they release that information regardless of release or not. This specific cartel needs to be fucking exterminated with no thought
November 5th is when the info gets released from what I’ve heard.
I doubt the kid is still alive, to be honest, but whatever. This info COULD easily fuck up the Zeta’s though…it would give the other cartels a list of who they can kill to severely fuck up the cartels, not to mention any corrupt politicians or police won’t want people to know they’re corrupt, and will thus want to keep the info from being released.
And it’s not like the Cartels can take out some random unknown kid in the UK or Idaho…
I’m curious to see how this one turns out
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/hector-xavier-monsegur-lulzsec-hackers_n_1323832.html
So they caught a member of Lulzsec, who ratted out 5 other guys he knew in Anon and Lulzsec. What makes this oh so delicious, is the following info:
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just let that sink in. The FBI, CIA, and so many other groups have been hunting for somebody who taught THEMSELVES to hack, and lives off of welfare. This is who the government is fighting against. Welfare recipients.
lol… yea but they spent X amount of years reading and hacking.
you know all that money goes into PC n Ramon
its only a matter of time before a whole system crash happens. Lucky I’ll still be using my mac
So how accurate was that report about lulz from back then to the guy they caught?
“legendary hacker” lulz. i heard that guy was a script kiddie. in other words, he runs canned exploits that other people write. any idiot can run a program. he also took down websites running basic SQL script injection attacks. no web app past 2001 should ever fall for that shit. it literally is that easy to protect against if your developers aren’t complete idiots. the fact that he’s an unemployed “computer programmer” lends credence to the fact that he’s a script kiddie. everybody is hiring programmers these days. its not that hard to find a job. a script kiddie is not a programmer though.
here’s a chat log from a while ago of virus calling sabu out and correctly guessing he’s a mole
http://foojutsu.org/pipermail/wikileaks/2011-August/000270.html
Self-taught hackers can be better in some respect to those formally taught. you’re more likely to come up with an “elegant” solution as opposed to simply going with some well-known solution that is prone to flaws or simply doesn’t fine-tune as sharply as is should. Case in point, forensics tools. There are a TON of closed commercial forensics tools that do not do a good enough job. A simple hex editor can catch the real subtle changes that can be made to data that all of those expensive tools will miss. It’s security through obscurity at it’s finest.
These days EVERYONE’S a script kiddie. There are very few out there building and using their own tools from scratch. And why should this surprise anyone? The commercial tools out there are adequate for most, the open source tools are even better, and there’s just no real need to do low level programming anymore. At least not at the API level. Which is why BIG SURPRISE the leetest of the leet are the hardware hackers (AKA REAL hackers) who do everything in assembly and only mess around with a compiler to finish breaking (AKA “fix”) some nit-wit formally trained programmer’s code that he imagined was secure. Those are the guys that are able to pwn devices at a low level over power lines. They’re the same guys that can train a laptop battery to pwn your system without you knowing it (still buying those cheap parts from China? hur hur hur!), but they’re also usually the same guys who are out there trying to save us from all the script kiddies out there who only know enough to be dangerous, which frankly is more than enough these days.
Forget niggas. All you need is for a pissed-off redneck to summon Pumpkinhead.
Keep away from Pumpkinhead, unless you’re tired of living
His enemies are mostly dead, he’s mean and unforgiving
Laugh at him and you’re undone, but in some dreadful fashion
Vengeance, he considers fun, and plans it with a passion
Time will not erase or blot a plot that he has brewing
It’s when you think that he’s forgot, he’ll conjure your undoing
Bolted doors and windows barred, guard dogs prowling in the yard
Won’t protect you in your bed. Nothing will, from Pumpkinhead.
Not like colleges teach much anyway, even at MIT (their security lectures are online for free if anyone is curious).
Anyway, I don’t think there’s any organization that’s really secure, it’s amazing how many save money by skipping necessary vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc. Some organizations don’t even know what a vulnerability scanner even is…
Isn’t that why it’s lulz cause of how stupid easy it was to expose their security? Or am I just reading into this too simply.
yes. SQL injections can usually be prevented just by updating your damn software. Most companies either have no IT department, or have like 1 guy they hope will prevent everything. Since management has zero idea about the technology, when shit goes bad, they either move on to the next guy, or hire one in the first place, rather than having a dedicated team. Not much you can do against DDoS though, if enough people hit you.
I still would have liked Anonymous and Lulzsec to carry on, as they make companies WANT an IT dept.
no and statement shows you have no idea what it is. updating software will do nothing since the problem lies in the code and allowing people to run statements they shouldn’t