lulzsec strikes again: attack on Arizona and SB1070

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Technology News: Network Intrusion: LulzSec's Latest Lark Targets Ariz. Cops

Hacker community LulzSec has revealed it's broken into the Arizona law enforcement agency's servers and released hundreds of sensitive documents on the Internet.

"We are targeting AZDPS [the Arizona Department of Public Safety] specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona," LulzSec stated.

This is the same group that allegedly recently managed to hack Sony and the CIA.

Laughed at this part:

"Stop paying attention to them," recommended Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos.

"These people seek attention because there isn't any lulz when you're all alone," Wisniewski told TechNewsWorld.
 
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all of these recent hacker attacks make me think that perhaps Julian Assange wasn't joking when he said bringing him down will only make things worse (a paraphrase).
 
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"We are targeting AZDPS [the Arizona Department of Public Safety] specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona," LulzSec stated.
Looks like they're combating the horrors of racial profiling with terrorism.
 
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Names, addresses, phone numbers of Arizona police, border patrol and immigration officials, many many classified docs on intel, procedure, etc.
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That's the tip of the iceberg. The folder is ~450mb of mostly text-only files if that gives you any idea of the scale (enormous)
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Names, addresses, phone numbers of Arizona police, border patrol and immigration officials, many many classified docs on intel, procedure, etc.
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This is nuff. Find lulz and kill him. JMO. And I hate the zona law.
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"These people seek attention because there isn't any lulz when you're all alone," Wisniewski told TechNewsWorld.

I have found evidence to the contrary:

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This is nuff. Find lulz and kill him. JMO. And I hate the zona law.
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It's not a person, it's a fluid worldwide group, and they base their attacks off of moral motivations. i.e. they were threatening to bring Microsoft down for trying to sue people over modding the Kinect, so Microsoft backed off.

I think the thing that gets to the hacker mindset is 1) bigotry or perceived bigotry, and 2) secrecy of information. There's kind of a god complex when looking at the community as a whole, take 4chan raids for example.

What MG mentioned about Assange is probably the truth though. LulzSec is undoubtedly going to get away with this, and if one can use the Arizona law as its moral compass, then any state adopting laws like it should be fearful.
 
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It's not a person, it's a fluid worldwide group, and they base their attacks off of moral motivations. i.e. they were threatening to bring Microsoft down for trying to sue people over modding the Kinect, so Microsoft backed off.

I think the thing that gets to the hacker mindset is 1) bigotry or perceived bigotry, and 2) secrecy of information. There's kind of a god complex when looking at the community as a whole, take 4chan raids for example.

What MG mentioned about Assange is probably the truth though. LulzSec is undoubtedly going to get away with this, and if one can use the Arizona law as its moral compass, then any state adopting laws like it should be fearful.

They have endangered the lives of Americans. It may be that some will die due to released info. I cannot stand the immigration laws that are popping up. I happen to teach many undocumented kids or documented with parents who are undocumented. I cannot see how any person that categorizes themselves as moral agrees with the practices these laws put in place.


I still strongly believe the FBI and Military should be used to hunt these individuals. If citizens of this country there acts are treason punishable by death. If they are foreign born it is an act of war. We can handle our own laws through legal routes as flawed as they may be. I imagine they think they are real cute. However, a drug cartel could use the info and do some serious harm. I am dead serious when I say we should hunt them and deal harshly with them to make a statement. This will not end unless we do. If there is no consequence then there will be no end.
 
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They've supposedly arrested one guy in the UK, and they're not even sure if he's connected to it or not. These guys broke into Lockheed Martin and the CIA, and neither have any idea what hit them, what was compromised or who did it. Does that put it in perspective? How does one go about stopping that?
 
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Like I said with Wikileaks... If they weren't doing **** like this then there'd be nothing to for LulzSec to uncover and release.
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Like I said with Wikileaks... If they weren't doing **** like this then there'd be nothing to for LulzSec to uncover and release.
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poor justification for endangering the lives of border patrol and other agents who have nothing to do with actually crafting the legislation
 
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They've supposedly arrested one guy in the UK, and they're not even sure if he's connected to it or not. These guys broke into Lockheed Martin and the CIA, and neither have any idea what hit them, what was compromised or who did it. Does that put it in perspective? How does one go about stopping that?

It is doable it just takes effort and money. If they want to track these people they will. They have to use techniques they did with Al Queda. I would treat them no differently. I would classify them as enemy combatants and proceed with brutal interrogation techniques. The geeks would crack real quick.
 
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poor justification for endangering the lives of border patrol and other agents who have nothing to do with actually crafting the legislation
It is, and it's personally reprehensible, but if you're never going to find out who did it, what do you do?

It is doable it just takes effort and money. If they want to track these people they will. They have to use techniques they did with Al Queda. I would treat them no differently. I would classify them as enemy combatants and proceed with brutal interrogation techniques. The geeks would crack real quick.
How is it doable? Hackers at home on their own time have been and always will be steps ahead of the best the corporate sector and the government have to offer. It's literally like having thousands of John Dillingers on the internet.
 
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poor justification for endangering the lives of border patrol and other agents who have nothing to do with actually crafting the legislation

I don't think their lives have been endangered any more than normal. And again, quit the BS and there would be no issue. Transparency.
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I don't think their lives have been endangered any more than normal. And again, quit the BS and there would be no issue. Transparency.
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you don't think revealing the names and home addresses of agents who work undercover isn't dangerous?

pardon me while I jump off your train to Utopiaville.
 
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It is, and it's personally reprehensible, but if you're never going to find out who did it, what do you do?


How is it doable? Hackers at home on their own time have been and always will be steps ahead of the best the corporate sector and the government have to offer. It's literally like having thousands of John Dillingers on the internet.

It is not that hard. You can track to general regions. Individuals like that are known im the area. It is called an investigation using our best tech and human resources. They are not magical gnomes or leprechans.
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I don't think their lives have been endangered any more than normal. And again, quit the BS and there would be no issue. Transparency.
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They potentially have. Names and contact information were released, as well as all sorts of documents explaining the inner workings of customs, immigration and security. If it were a targeted effort to expose some sort of institutional racism and profiling practice, then I could understand, but how has the info dump not placed anybody in danger?
 
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It is not that hard. You can track to general regions. Individuals like that are known im the area. It is called an investigation using our best tech and human resources. They are not magical gnomes or leprechans.
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I'm pretty sure if hackers had no avenue to operate in a way to be impossible to locate (which they do), then they would. Some might slip up here and there, but by and large they don't.

Beyond that, the group is amorphous, so even in the off chance a key player does get found out, there are hundreds more.
 
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I'm pretty sure if hackers had no avenue to operate in a way to be impossible to locate (which they do), then they would. Some might slip up here and there, but by and large they don't.

Beyond that, the group is amorphous, so even in the off chance a key player does get found out, there are hundreds more.

They are not jihadist. You catch a few essentially kill them after trial of course others will Piss themselves.
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For some reason I trust the hackers more than the security personnel. Most of the time, the people these guys go after seem pretty slimy. I have a slight doubt about the actual information released. But my give a **** meter is not high enough for me to go hunting down more information.

Usually I agree with what these people are doing, this time, if the information is true, it's borderline. However, they've clearly gotten under the skin of the gov't and security firms, and I don't know if I can take an article at face value.
 
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They are not jihadist. You catch a few essentially kill them after trial of course others will Piss themselves.
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Yeah, not so much. I suppose it's analogous to terrorism in that it's an amorphous group operating on ideals and skills that can't ever really be put down or controlled, but the comparison ends there.
 
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For some reason I trust the hackers more than the security personnel. Most of the time, the people these guys go after seem pretty slimy. I have a slight doubt about the actual information released. But my give a **** meter is not high enough for me to go hunting down more information.

Usually I agree with what these people are doing, this time, if the information is true, it's borderline. However, they've clearly gotten under the skin of the gov't and security firms, and I don't know if I can take an article at face value.

True, most of them do not go after Joe Schmoe. FWIW I torrented the folder in question and paroozed... There are definitely some compromising files in there.
 

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