Lulz & Anonymous attack Paypal

LulzSec and Anonymous have given alot to talk about this year. They were very passive lately, but have drawn attention to them once again...

They stressed in a statement that it is best that users close their Paypal accounts, and the reason is that they freeze the money to their users for no apparent reason, only when they want, plus they also have blocked funding for Wikileaks.

On Twitter and are speaking through the hashtag #OpPayPal, asking people to upload images from their accounts blocked and thus raise awareness of the initiative, and to complement, LulzSec has put in his Twitter account a few alternatives to PayPal.

So far no official figures on how many accounts have been blocked, however, suspect they have been over 20 thousand, and in this respect there is still no official statement from PayPal.

Anonymous wants to go straight to harm the company's eBay listing on the stock for now are only looking at how you're doing on the Nasdaq, it ensures that they will begin to prosecute some of its members worse attacks.

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Sega corp Hacked - Cyber attack

 Sega Corp. said hackers have accessed personal information of 1.3 million users, although it appears no payment information was obtained.

The names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of members of a service called Sega Pass, which provides information regarding the video game developer's new products, were collected in the cyber attack Thursday, the company said.
Sega took the service offline, reset the passwords of affected users and sent a letter advising the users to change their passwords on other sites, a company spokeswoman said.
After being alerted by a customer, Sega discovered the intrusion when it investigated its databases. The company is conducting an internal investigation and "taking action against this."
Sega said that to guard against future breaches, it will increase the frequency of its security checks and implement more security measures.
"We deeply regret that such unauthorized access occurred," the game developer said Sunday in a statement. "We will go on to further strengthen our network security as a priority issue and strive to prevent any potential recurrence."
Other video game companies that have recently fallen victim to cyber attacks include Sony and Nintendo.

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Hacker groups such as Anonymous has attacked many different targets

The hacker group known as Lulz Security has leapt to prominence by carrying out a series of attacks on Sony, Nintendo, and broadcasters Fox and PBS.

What is Lulz Security? Like many hacker groups, LulzSec appears to be a loosely organized collective in which no-one is really in charge.
It claims to specialize in finding poorly protected websites to attack. Information they steal is sometimes posted to the web.
Sony has been prominent among its victims. In early June Lulz Security broke into the servers behind the sonypictures.com, sonybmg.nl and sonybmg.be websites.
The group gained access to around one million user accounts and published details of several thousand online.
Why Lulz? Lulz is a corruption of the famous web abbreviation

The logo of Lulz Security suggests the group does not take what it does too seriously

LOL which stands for "Laugh Out Loud".
Humour forms part of the group's agenda, as outlined on its website.
"Considering fun is now restricted to Friday, where we look forward to the weekend, weekend, we have now taken it upon ourselves to spread fun, fun, fun, throughout the entire calendar year," declares a message on the front page.
The humour references seem to be intended to separate the group from others that hack for money.
But not everything LulzSec does is for the fun of it.
The group also hacked the website of America's Public Broadcasting Service because it made a documentary critical of Wiki-leaks.
Who are they? No-one knows.
The internet and the web make it easy to be superficially anonymous and LulzSec has done a good job of hiding its tracks.
We do not even know if it is a group or just an individual with lots of time on their hands.
How long has LulzSec been active? Since early May.
One of the first documents the group posted was a list of US X Factor contestants complete with names, date of birth, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
However, it is impossible to know whether members of Lulz Security were active in other groups before they joined this one.
It is possible that LulzSec was formed by people who were disillusioned with other groups and wanted to cause a stir on their own. Members of LulzSec may also still be part of other hacking groups.
Can't they be tracked down? Not really.
Net analysis suggests that the computers handling their website are located in Palo Alto, California. However, it is easy to administer a website from far away, so that is no guide to their location.
Some have tried to look at the group's Twitter stream to see when they post messages and to work out their time zone.
Even that could be misleading because the Tweets could be posted automatically or by a member of the group in that part of the world.
Any reasonably competent hacker group will pipe what they do through a series of machines that sit in different jurisdictions to complicate any attempt to track them down.
LulzSec are likely to find themselves getting more attention from law enforcement following their recent attack on Unveillance, a non-profit organization affiliated to the FBI.
How good are they at what they do? Hard to say.
The tricks they have used to winkle out information from websites are well-known and tools to carry them out are available for free all over the net.
In the case of the recent Sonypictures.com hack, the group used an SQL injection - a relatively straightforward attack on the website's log on system.
Their success may have more to do with the security failings of their targets than it does with their command of computer code.
Are there lots of hacking groups? Hundreds.
They range from disinterested academics and professionals through teenage trouble-makers to out-and-out criminals.
At one end of the scale are "white hat" hackers who find vulnerabilities and inform website owners so they can fix them
"Black hat" hackers represent the other extreme - they are typically criminals or hackers working for criminals looking to access information for profit.
In the middle are "Grey hat" hackers who are generally intent on mischief making. At the moment, LulzSec seems to fall into this category.

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Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend

According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend.  Yes, another one.

An outsider of  IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony's website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted customers a full week after the initial network hack, though it should have been much sooner.
To lay it on thick, the hackers also want to go a step beyond infiltrating the site. CNET says that they “plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.”




Sony recently admitted that the hackers stole personal information from “all of the approximately 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts" in a response to U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the matter. Gee whiz, dudes. Like that's not bad enough compared with all of the credit card information exposed.
Weeks before ago, several Sony websites were forced down by what some people believe is the work of hacker group Anonymous. They group is believed to be responsible for the PlayStation network breach, though Anonymous has said they do not “condone credit card theft.”
Regardless whether the planned attack is hearsay or not, Sony should step up their game to ensure nothing close happens. It's the last thing that the company really needs and would be, let's just say, less than ideal given what it's been through in the recent weeks.

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Here's a quote from the letter Anonymous sent to Sony a week before the Hack Attacks .

“Congratulations, Sony. You now have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal action against our follow hackers, Geohot and Graf_Chokolo, has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable.

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The PlayStation Network ( PSN ) is Still Down -Anonymous Claims Innocence -

When Will the PlayStation Network be back up and running in at all. What group could have done this?
Sony's PlayStation Network being down, entered into a fourth-day. Alot of reports indicate a Cyber attack may be at fault by a group called Anonymous.
It's been recently released, Anonymous. Claims they are not responsible for this act.

Anonymous claims they are NOT responsible for the recent hack into the PlayStation Network some four days ago.
Patrick Seybold, Sony's senior director of corporate communications and social media, released an online post apologizing for the outage, and admitting the breach of security.
He said: 'An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network.
'We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience.'

PCWorld's Keir Thomas said the phrasing Sony used - talking of an 'external intrusion' - indicated that the attack wasn't a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which is one of Anonymous's most popular weapons.
He wrote: 'Instead, this seems to be an individual breaking into the network and this is probably why it's taking so long to clean-up - Sony has to trace every corner of their systems affected by the hacker and repair it or restore files.'

The group said that the mishap was due to internal issues with Sony's own servers, and those fingering Anonymous were "taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company." A message to the company's PlayStation blog in Europe had said that Sony was investigating "the possibility of targeted behavior by an outside party," but since had been removed.

"Sony is incompetent... While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it," Anonymous wrote in a public statement.

Sony has provided little information on what may have caused the outage other than acknowledging issues beginning on Wednesday evening, and saying in a status update on Thursday that the issue could extend through the weekend. Either way, the complication cripples the gaming console for many.

Console applications like Netflix, MLB.tv, and others require a PSN login in order to function, and now are inoperable. This week also saw several highly anticipated games, with online play, released -- Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4 to name two -- and the latter heavily leans on the PSN and online game play.

+ leukoplast on April 22nd, 2011 at 12:13 am said:
I just hope Sony doesn’t use this as an excuse to start charging for PSN access.


Obviously, PS3 owners are not happy, criticizing the company's silence on the cause, and slowness in getting it fixed. "SONY needs better engineers to secure the PSN,"user 'Moeeed' wrote in the PlayStation Blog.