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The
6/14/2011, 08:06 AM
So, some of you people know that Sony got hacked and their internets got turned off, right? Well, the group behind the attacks is called LulzSec. And they apparently just hacked the FBI. (Copy paste because of profanity filter accidentilys the whole link.)


Dear Internets, It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hacking as an act of war. So, we just hacked an FBI affiliated website (Infragard, specifically the Atlanta chapter) and leaked its user base. We also took complete control over the site and defaced it, check it out if it's still up: http://infragardatlanta.org/ While not very many logins (around 180), we'd like to take the time to point out that all of them are affiliated with the FBI in some way. Most of them reuse their passwords in other places, which is heavily frowned upon in the FBI/Infragard handbook and generally everywhere else too. One of them, Karim Hijazi, used his Infragard password for his personal gmail, and the gmail of the company he owns. "Unveillance", a whitehat company that specializes in data breaches and botnets, was compromised because of Karim's incompetence. We stole all of his personal emails and his company emails. We also briefly took over, among other things, their servers and their botnet control panel. After doing so, we contacted Karim and told him what we did. After a few discussions, he offered to pay us to eliminate his competitors through illegal hacking means in return for our silence. Karim, a member of an FBI-related website, was willing to give us money and inside info in order to destroy his opponents in the whitehat world. We even discussed plans for him to give us insider botnet information. Naturally we were just stringing him along to further expose the corruption of whitehats. Please find enclosed Karim's full contact details and a log of him talking to us through IRC. Also, enjoy 924 of his internal company emails - we have his personal gmail too, unreleased. We call upon journalists and other writers to delve through the emails carefully, as we have uncovered an operation orchestrated by Unveillance and others to control and assess Libyan cyberspace through malicious means: the U.S. government is funding the CSFI to attack Libya's cyber infrastructure. You will find the emails of all 23 people involved in the emails. Unveillance was also involved in a scheme where they paid an Indian registrar $2000 to receive 100 domains a month that may be deemed as botnet C&Cs. Shameful ploys by supposed "whitehats". We accept your threats, NATO. Game on, losers. Now we are all sons of bitches, Lulz Security

sappstuf
6/14/2011, 08:20 AM
Now the FBI won't be able to play games for months....

Should have went with CIA like I did.. As long as you don't get the RRoD&T (Red Ring of Death and Torture) their network is allsome!

Partial Qualifier
6/14/2011, 08:23 AM
Wow. And 'lulzSec' .. that's funny

OUDoc
6/14/2011, 08:44 AM
No matter how good you are at hacking, I'm thinking pushing the FBI is a bad idea.

Unless these people aren't US citizens. Maybe that would make them a little safer.

Midtowner
6/14/2011, 09:06 AM
Karim... typical government contractor. Outsourcing isn't always as cheap as it's made out to be.

yermom
6/14/2011, 09:27 AM
i'm guessing they aren't

they might have a tough time getting through security to get to Vegas this year though :eek:

NormanPride
6/14/2011, 11:03 AM
Crazy. I hope this happens more, though. Governments need something to fear.

RacerX
6/14/2011, 01:59 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

Penguin
6/14/2011, 02:06 PM
What is a whitehat? What is a botnet? Please explain.

NormanPride
6/14/2011, 02:12 PM
whitehat = hacker that wants to help

botnet = group of computers infected with a virus that lets someone control them into doing bad things. The most frequent use of a botnet that I know about is doing a DDOS (distributed denial of service) where multiple (in the tens of thousands) of computers flood a website with so many requests that the servers cannot handle them and fail.

So the implication here is that a supposedly "good" guy who was working for the FBI was secretly doing bad things on the side, like trying to control Libya's net functionality. He then tried to buy off LulzSec by giving them insider info to crush his competitors.

A really bad dude indeed.

yermom
6/14/2011, 02:26 PM
whitehats do things like find exploits and give them to vendors so they can fix them, or get paid to find vulnerabilities in a client's network so they can be fixed

it's not that crazy to think he was messing with Libya's network for the US government...

NormanPride
6/14/2011, 02:28 PM
Yup, but LulzSec would have told everyone if they found anything related to that in his emails.

yermom
6/14/2011, 02:31 PM
oh yeah, in the OP that's exactly what they said

NormanPride
6/14/2011, 02:39 PM
How did I gloss over that? And I actually approve of it. It's about time our military operations included net sabotage.

Position Limit
6/14/2011, 02:53 PM
is it possible to jam up all internet and phone networks?

The
6/14/2011, 02:54 PM
is it possible to jam up all internet and phone networks?

For most people, yah.

Then you've got us fools that know how to use Tor....

yermom
6/14/2011, 03:09 PM
Tor: the best way to tell the network admins that you are doing things that might be interesting :D

The
6/14/2011, 03:12 PM
Tor: the best way to tell the network admins that you are doing things that might be interesting :D
http://www.overclock.net/attachments/hardware-news/125404d1255011280-fud-intel-worried-about-gpu-viruses-good_luck_im_behind_7_proxies.jpg