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The Lulz Are Done…. FBI Takes Down LulzSec

Posted in Commentary with tags on September 24, 2011 by itnerd

The FBI has managed to arrest two members of the notorious hacker group LulzSec, and to add insult to injury a third person is facing charges:

Cody Kretsinger, a 23-year-old from Phoenix, was charged with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday morning.

In another indictment, Christopher Doyon, 47, of Mountain View, Calif., and Joshua Covelli, 26, of Fairborn, Ohio, were charged with conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer and aiding and abetting.

The indictment says both men participated in a “distributed denial of service” attack on Santa Cruz County, Calif.’s computer servers in 2010, causing them to go offline. It alleges that the attack was carried out by the People’s Liberation Front, which is associated with hacking groups such as Anonymous.

These arrests add to the 16 arrests that happened in July. I think it’s a safe bet that the Lulz are done.

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Apple Hacked By Anonymous (And LulzSec)

Posted in Commentary with tags , , , on July 5, 2011 by itnerd

As if Apple doesn’t have enough issues, comes the news that they have been hacked by Anonymous which includes members from the supposedly defunct group known as LulzSec:

Anonymous and LulzSec, two amorphous groups of computer hackers, released on Monday a short list of usernames and passwords allegedly stolen from one of Apple Inc. servers. The groups appear to have obtained the data from another hacker, who did not intend to release the information publicly. Although Apple has neither commented on nor confirmed the breach, the data appears to be of little strategic value as it doesn’t directly relate to customer information such as credit card numbers.

But the damage is in not what they got, but the fact that they got in at all. If the server in question was running OS X Server, then that is a big issue as security is one of the things that they claim to have in their favor… Though I’ve debunked that previously. Now Apple doesn’t seem to have been the only victim here. Fox News had their Twitter account hacked. I personally won’t be losing sleep over that as it’s Fox News we’re talking about here, not a real news agency. But I digress.

The more these hacks take place, the more likely that law enforcement is going to seriously go after these guys. Or at least, one would hope that were the case.

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Rival Hacker Group Posts Real Names Of LulzSec Members

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 26, 2011 by itnerd

A group calling itself “The A-Team” has posted what it claims are the real identities of the members of the notorious hacker group LulzSec. From the sounds of it, they aren’t impressed with the groups antics:

The problem with Lulzsec/gn0sis’s “Hacktivist” mantra 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”. Whether or not this was an attempt at bring other groups out of the shadows (el8, h0no, zf0, etc), you can only speculate. But as of this writing: 6/24/2011 Sabu and Topiary are the only two people updating the twitter and releasing shit. Kayla is MIA. The gn0sis kids are gone in hiding somewhere.

From what we’ve seen these lulzsec/gn0sis kids aren’t really that good at hacking. They troll the internet and search for sqlinjection vulnerabilities as well as Remote File Include/Local File Include bugs. Once found they try to download databases or pull down usernames and passwords. Their releases have nothing to do with their goals or their lulz. It’s purely based on whatever they find with their “google hacking” queries and then release it.

Perhaps this is the real reason why they pulled the plug on themselves this weekend? We’ll never know because I doubt the world will ever get a straight answer from them. But I suspect that given the nature of the hacks they’ve done, The A-Team are going to be the least of their problems.

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LulzSec Pulling The Plug On Itself?

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 26, 2011 by itnerd

It seems that LulzSec has decided quit hacking. A Tweet appeared with a link to a document on Pastebin declaring that the group’s run of cybermischief was coming to an end. So is this a joke? Is it because that they know that the heat is on them from law enforcement? We’ll have to see.

Any thoughts?

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LulzSec Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement….Leaks Classified Data

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 23, 2011 by itnerd

Those guys or girls from LulzSec are at it again. This time using the Pirate Bay, they’ve leaked “hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement” which they call “Chinga La Migra” (F**k the Border Patrol). Clearly a political move. Here’s what they had to say:

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

Well, this really ups the stakes. You can bet that some serious law enforcement time and effort is going to be spent to shut these dudes down. That’s because there’s no way that law enforcement is going to let this slide. I wouldn’t want to be LulzSec right about now.

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LulzSec Hacker Busted… Or Not…

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 21, 2011 by itnerd

There’s a report floating around that a member of LulzSec has been arrested over the Sony hacks:

The 19-year-old is suspected of hacking into systems and mounting denial of service attacks against “a number of international businesses and intelligence agencies,” police said.

Naming suspects who have been arrested is illegal in Britain.

Apparently they took his computer to prove he was linked to LulzSec:

The suspect’s computer will also be examined for links to LulzSec, another police spokesman told CNN, who also declined to be named in line with custom.

But LulzSec denied the arrest on their Twitter feed in typical LulzSec fashion. So the question is, did U.K. Cops get a member of LulzSec or not? Time will tell. But you can fully expect LulzSec to do something in revenge shortly.

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Hey IT Nerd – Who Is LulzSec? Should I Be Worried?

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 19, 2011 by itnerd

If you haven’t heard of this hacker group before, you’ve likely heard of their exploits. They’ve hacked Sony, the CIA, and posted account info of various companies online. So who are LulzSec? Lulz Security (LulzSec for short) are a group of hackers with a very interesting sense of humor. The name comes from LOL or laugh out loud because according to them, they do hacks “for the lulz.” They seem to be into pranks and exposing weak security rather than being any sort of serious cyberterrorist group. They announce their hacks and taunt their targets via their Twitter feed.

Should you be worried about this group? Only if you’re a government agency or a major company. The average person likely has nothing to worry about, although they did release that account info recently that likely has a lot of average people very concerned. The only thing that I have to say about them is that their exploits are gaining them a lot of attention. Sooner or later it’s going to get the attention of law enforcement who will be arresting them “for the lulz.” Until that happens, you should expect to be hearing from them a lot.

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