Another Hacker attack: Eve Online taken down

I think these whole cyber attacks on major game companies recently have gotten out of hand.. I mean seriously.. another one? I really hope they do something about it.

Eve Online Taken Down by Hackers - PC News at IGN

Update 6/16: Lulzsec takes down CIA website

 

What I wrote in a different thread

 

Their theme song
YouTube - ‪2011 Lulz Boat Odyssey - Final Cut‬‏
You can even call them and request them to hack a target. Here is their voicemail http://boingboing.net/assets/lulzline.mp3

 

and I actually thought that i was first to see this xD

 

It`s all good. +rep to cheer you up

 

Yep. it's all good now

 

lol, that would be a sight to see

 

They keep going for the "soft" targets and those which openly asked to be attacked (security company), I doubt they have the guts to take on one of the major state institutions since personal threat to health and safety seems to put them off (even if they have the skills to do it).

 

You should watch more 60 Minutes on CBS [I'm an avid watcher]; it's been done. I think it was Virginia (or some state) that had a database hacked and held for ransom; which they paid :/

 

You might wanna check out their website. The senate, Infraguard (FBI), PBS, Sony etc. Not exactly the little league

Lulz Security® (LulzSec) releases

 

I stand corrected, I haven't been following the news on their attacks that closely. However, they seem to have focused purely on institutions in the English-speaking world. I would be very curious to see if they had the guts to take on one of the Russian or Chinese state institutions, they might succeed but if they get traced they might find themselves the target of a contract hit in the former's case or full-blown retaliation from the latter.

This is a very nice summary of recent hacker activity over 2011, the international focus is all over areas that feature prominently on the news. The article also emphasises that organizations with very poor IT security lost most of their crucial, classified information to the attacks. It also appears that the publicity-seekers are doing a favour to more serious organizations working behind the scenes.

 

I can somewhat sympathize with hackers who are trying to make a social/political statement. But hacking for "lulz" is about as stupid as stupid gets.

Last I checked, the villain in Live Free Or Die Hard was... yep, definitely still a villain. Here's to hoping that some people pay for the damage they've caused.

 

The crux of the matter is, the attacks will continue since they are untraceable thus far giving the hackers a sense of invincibility since they feel they can't be caught, last I remembered few hacking attempts in the 90s resulted in arrests and convictions and it's less likely now that technology has evolved on the anonymity and cryptology fields. Essentially, if the hackers actually feel a sense of danger to self and property from their actions, they'll be much more likely to think twice about further attacks.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, picking a fight with governments that are not as lenient at prosecuting attacks through legal means is something I can't see them doing since any retaliation if forthcoming will not be limited to prisons and the law courts.

 

This just leads to undue stress for everyone. Changing passwords (yes I know it should be different and unique for every site, but come on), worry of personal information being farmed, etc.

 

This is just sickening. I'm all for hackers taking down malicious websites or websites belonging to people/corporations need to be exposed. But just for the heck of it? It's stupid.

I don't get these hackers, many likely gamers themselves, are targeting their own people. Their arrogance and light hearted attitude towards everything is really scary. What if they decided to attack the power grid or something, for fun?

Truly sickening.

 

This just sounds like a BAD reality TV shows on TLC. Hack Wars

 

Maybe Anonymous will counter-hack these diaper slinging fools and clear the air a bit.

 

Sadly, some members of anonymous are probably behind the Lulzsec attacks.

 

If they continue hacking sites, the risk of getting caught is increasing. Although they probably use 3-4 proxies, maybe some servers they know, and hide behind VPN etc, there is no such thing as untracable in networking.

I think Anonymous and their crusade against everything (lol) and where teenagers joined the DDOSing only made hacking more popular, hence that is why Lulzsec got such a big fanbase and only fuels them

 

Wait till they start rounding up these guys en masse and slapping them with 10-yr sentences...

 

I'd find it more amusing and entertaining if the attacks stopped suddenly because of mysterious "disappearances" of the culprits. Modern justice is fine in theory, but some culprits are better suited to medieval-style lynchings to help prevent future repeats

 

This same group is taking credit for a recent hack to the CIA website. Although its just the civilian website it should still be lights out for them.
Man they really just dont give a ****

 

I just saw that lol Imagine they actually get the feds....

Anyways updated first post.

 

I'm not a hacker myself, and don't claim any particular knowledge in this area, but I was under the impression that these were primarily DDOS (Denial of Service) attacks, which, although requiring a fairly sizable number of computers under some sort of botnet network, actually require very little finnesse - a brute force approach.

So at this juncture, I don't think one can really say whether LulzSec are relatively skilled or not (although they sure as hell are better than me )

 

Sounds like something a lulzsec would say to disguise himself...

 

Polonium...

 

Yeah you are correct that they brought down those sites with DDOS. But they do hack, infact if you look at their homepage Lulz Security® (LulzSec) releases and you will see that everything there is what they have copied and found after hacking and breaking in to a remote system. They cannot get these by DDOS. So I would say that they are very skilled, both in hacking and DDOSing, and giving a damn about everything