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FBI partner’s site has been breached by Hackers

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/06/2011 09:27:00 pm


Nearly 180 passwords belonging to members of an Atlanta-based FBI partner organization have been stolen and leaked to the Internet, the group confirmed yesterday.
The logins belonged to the local chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership devoted to sharing information about threats to US physical and Internet infrastructure, the chapter’s president said.
“Someone did compromise the website,’’ Paul Farley, president of the InfraGard Atlanta Members Alliance, said in an e-mail exchange. “We do not at this time know how the attack occurred or the method used to reveal the passwords.’’ Copies of the passwords — which appear to include users from the US Army, cybersecurity organizations, and major communications companies — were posted to the Internet by online hacking collective Lulz Security, which has claimed credit for a string of attacks in the past week. In a statement, Lulz Security also claimed to have used one of the passwords to steal nearly 1,000 work and personal e-mails from the chief executive of Wilmington, Del.,-based Unveillance. Lulz Security claimed it was acting in response to a recent report that the Pentagon was considering whether to classify some cyberattacks as acts of war.
The FBI said yesterday steps were being taken to mitigate the damage.

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Why does Sony getting hacked for multiple times (full report)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/09/2011 07:01:00 pm


Since the April Play Station Network breach that exposed over 100 million user accounts, Sony has been hacked more than 10 times. Sony Pictures,Sony Europe, Sony BMG Greece, Sony Thailand,Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericcson Canada, and others, have all been the target of attacks. Sony has had to contend with intense scrutiny from media, disgruntled users and lawmakers, with everyone asking the company how it could let such a breach happen. Sony has apologized repeatedly and said that the original attack was a highly professional, criminal cyber attack aimed at stealing credit card numbers. Other experts have said that Sony simply didn't have its security act together and that the attack was likely far simpler. Now, critics are wondering what exactly the motivation might be behind the continued hacks. While the initial PlayStation Network breach was the largest of the hacks to date, Sony's cyber attack problem has continued due to both inconsistent security across Sony's systems and the rise of new groups of hackers interested less in punishing Sony than in showing off their ability to breach the company's defenses, experts say.

Some analysts say Sony's security woes started when the company pressed charges against 20 year-old hacker, George Hotz, who reverse-engineered Sony’s PlayStation 3 so that it could run unapproved third-party applications. Sony responded by suing Hotz, a move that reportedly infuriated many in the hacker community. Many experts say the attack on the PlayStation Network in April could have been an act of vilgilante justice resulting directly or indirectly from Sony's lawsuit against Hotz.

"Sony's perceived abuse of the legal system in targeting reverse-engineer George Hotz infuriated hacker groups," said Randy Abrams, director of technical education at ESET, an IT security firm. Abrams also noted that even before the Hotz incident, Sony had drummed up "significant antipathy" as the result of a 2005 scandal involving Sony CDs that automatically installed a rootkit that made users' computers vulnerable to attack.
The PlayStation Network attack appears to have set off an avalanche of follow-ups.

"Other hackers and hacking groups realized they could jump on the bandwagon and break into other Sony properties and get in the news," said Richard Wang, manager of Sophos Labs, a security vendor. "Really anything that has the Sony brand on it has become a target for someone trying to make a name for themselves or trying to prove they can break into the website."

Fred Cate, director of the Center for Applied Security Research at the University of Indiana, said the first PlayStation Network breach may have tempted hackers by revealing Sony as open to attack. "There's sort of a pile-on effect," Cate said. "Once you hear that there's a vulnerable network out there, other folks start trying. Sony's now a new target of interest."
Other hackers seem to have joined up for reasons other than political or monetary gain. Sites like has sonybeen hacked this week.com demonstrate a curious mixture of genuine curiosity and weary cultural saturation.

"Prior to the PSN hack, the loosely organized Anonymous group had waged war against Sony, reflecting the opinion of a significant share of netizens who got infuriated by Sony's corporate attitude," said Guillaume Lovet, a senior manager of the threat response team at Fortinet. "But now, from being a target for opinion reasons only, it also became a target 'just for the lulz,' for [hacker group] lulzsecurity and others."
"The outcome," Lovet said, "is more attackers, thus more successful hacks."

Some critics have questioned whether Sony's security efforts both before and after the initial breaches have been adequate. Sony has since promised to boost its security systems and review existing procedures. Still, according to experts, many of the attacks used to breach Sony's sites are fairly basic hacks that the company could easily have protected against.

"They seemingly have an almost anarchistic approach to global network security, with no visible coordination of security practices across Internet properties," said Abrams. "Some properties, such as Sony Pictures, seem to have been ignoring basic security best practices."

Part of the problem is Sony’s huge international web presence. Experts say its highly unlikely that the company's multiple divisions, from movies to gaming, are following any coordinated set of security protocols.

"Sony has disclosed many breaches, including different servers in Indonesia and Thailand. I highly doubt that the same developers who developed these websites are the same developers who worked on the Playstation Network, Sony Pictures, etc.,” said Derek Manky, a senior security strategist at Fortinet. "Quite simply, there is a tradeoff: Security dwindles as you add convenience and complexity."

While the novelty of hacking Sony may continue to diminish as other cybersecurity stories hit the news, it's clear Sony must get its act together or risk more attacks, a loss of customer faith and money and possible government intervention. 

"Sony needs time to get their security house in order," Jeremiah Grossman, the CTO of WhiteHat Security wrote in an email. "As an organization, Sony could see this as an opportunity. A year or more from now, they could be an example of how security SHOULD be done across the entire industry."

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Lulzsec & Anonymous jointly declared "Operation Anti-Security"

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/21/2011 12:05:00 am

                                  

Lulzsec and Anonymous have just declared full open war against all governments, banks and big corporations in the world. They are calling all hackers in the world to unite. Their objective is to fully expose all corruption and dark secrets: 

Salutations Lulz Lizards,
As we're aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it's acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.
Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.
Whether you're sailing with us or against us, whether you hold past grudges or a burning desire to sink our lone ship, we invite you to join the rebellion. Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by profiteering gluttons. Your hat can be white, gray or black, your skin and race are not important. If you're aware of the corruption, expose it now, in the name of Anti-Security.
Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.
It's now or never. Come aboard, we're expecting you...
History begins today.
Lulz Security
This is not going to end well. Or perhaps it will end well. Could this movement help change the world for the better? With the growing worldwide discontent against the political and financial establishment—in my home country and all through Europe people are organizing to fight corrupted politicians and their greedy fat owners—I wonder if this may very well be the beginning of our May 1968. That was the time when the young French generations stood up against the government to demand a much needed change.
Opening the vaults of dark secrets and exposing corruption everywhere would certainly help towards that goal: Real change. Perhaps this is just the beginning of a quiet and angry revolution that will make the world a better place. Maybe making that information public will be instrumental to wake everyone up.
That said, exposing emails and private information from normal people or sinking ships that are neutral in this battle will not help towards that cause. That's not good and will not help anyone but those who they declare their enemies.
But uncovering the wrongdoings of states and economical institutions? I'm all for it. 

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McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 8/25/2011 01:11:00 pm


McAffee released its security threat report  today, announcing that 2011 has seen spikes in several different types of online security threats. “The second quarter of the year was clearly a period of chaos, changes, and new challenges,” according to the report.

The Report Contents:-

  • Hacktivism
  • Mobile Threats
  • Cybercrime
  • Malware Threats
  • Adobe outpaces Microsoft in Attracting Exploits
  • Messaging Threats
  • Web Threats

According to McAffee:-

"The threat landscape of 2011 is undergoing a year of chaos and change. We see chaos in the major challenges that hacktivist groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous pose, and change in the shifts in new malware classes and targeted devices. This quarter McAfee Labs saw major hacktivist activity—but in a very different way. The group Lulz Security, LulzSec for short, differs from other hacktivist groups in that they had no specific goals. They were in it, as they claimed, for the “lulz” (LOLs in text messagespeak, or “laugh out loud’s” ) but
showed an agility at compromising networks and servers, and stealing usernames, passwords, and other data. LulzSec committed multiple intrusions against a wide variety of companies, as well as attacks against police departments and intelligence agencies, and many other compromises. Although many of the outcomes and uses of these compromises are still in play (and we provide a helpful overview of the quarter’s activity) one thing has become clear: Many companies, both large and small, are more vulnerable than they may have suspected. Further, the security industry may need to reconsider some
of its fundamental assumptions, including “Are we really protecting users and companies?” Although LulzSec may have ceased its operations during this quarter, the questions they and other hacktivist groups have raised will be debated for a long time.
One significant change in the first quarter of 2011 was Android’s becoming the third-most targeted platform for mobile malware. This quarter the count of new Android-specific malware moved to number one, with J2ME (Java Micro Edition), coming in second while suffering only a third as many malware. This increase in threats to such a popular platform should make us evaluate our behavior on mobile devices and the security industry’s preparedness to combat this growth.
We also saw an increase in for-profit mobile malware, including simple SMS-sending Trojans and complex Trojans that use exploits to compromise smartphones. We offer an update of cybercrime “pricebooks” as well as some changes to toolkit and service prices. “Crimeware as a service” and the burgeoning “hacktivism as a service” continue to evolve as interests and targets change. On the positive side, there were some significant victories against cybercriminals this quarter.
Continuing the change theme, we observed a considerable decrease in both AutoRun and Koobface malware, offset by a strong rise in fake-anti-virus software that targets the Mac. Apple’s OS X has been mostly ignored by malware writers for years, so this represents a significant change of target
for cybercriminals. Malware continued its overall growth during the quarter as did rootkit malware. Rootkits, used primarily for stealth and resilience, makes malware more effective and persistent; its popularity is rising. Rootkits
such as Koutodoor and TDSS appear with increasing frequency. The amount of malware that attacks vulnerabilities in Adobe products continues to overwhelm those in Microsoft products.
Botnets and messaging threats, although still at historic lows, have begun to rise again. We expected this recovery after some recent botnet takedowns. Users and enterprises must plan for this growth and prepare their defenses and responses accordingly. We again examine social engineering subjects by both
geography and subject and botnets by geography and type.
We saw several spikes in malicious web activity this quarter as well as some serious growth in blogs and wikis with malicious reputations. Sites that deliver malware, potentially unwanted programs, and phishing sites also increased.
The second quarter of the year was clearly a period of chaos, changes, and new challenges."

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-News Source (McAffee)

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Arizona Police are Still in the Target of Hackers

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 06:02:00 am



A computer-hacking group posted Wednesday personal details of officers allegedly taken from an Arizona police department, stepping up its campaign of attacks against government agencies and officials.
"AntiSec," a hacking campaign that includes elements of the Anonymous vigilante group and the Lulz Security hacking collective, posted emails, photos and other personal information it said was from at least 14 officers at the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Hackers had targeted the same police department earlier and released training manuals, emails and intelligence documents last week as part of a political protest against a controversial state immigration law.
A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety declined to comment. Wednesday's release appears to step up the attack, focusing on officers rather than the department more broadly.
"We're not stopping until every prisoner is free," the hackers said in a statement. Earlier, some of the hackers said they had targeted Arizona's police department to protest Arizona's SB1070, a controversial state law that critics say is anti-immigration. A key provision of the law has been frozen because of legal challenges.
The hack comes amid a two-month long rampage of digital break-ins targeting governments and corporations including Sony Corp. (SNE, 6758.TO), the U.S. Senate, AT&T Inc. (T) and other high-profile targets. The attacks had been headed by Lulz Security, which said it had disbanded four days ago. The group's six main members joined a larger Internet campaign called AntiSec, or "Anti-Security," along with members of the online vigilante group Anonymous.
Together, the groups have released passwords and user data stolen from a Universal Music affiliated website, as well as details of Viacom Inc.'s (VIA) computer networks. 

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MilitarySingles.com Hacked By Lulzsec, 170K Military Details Exposed

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/28/2012 12:28:00 am

MilitarySingles.com Hacked By Lulzsec, 170K Military Details Exposed
Couple of days ago infamous Lulzsec or Lulz Security confirmed that they will sail the boat again from 1st April. In a twitter account of FawkesSecurity tweeted about this. Many of us taken that as a April fool joke but today a group of hackers claiming to be the reborn Lulz Security (LulzSec) took credit for an alleged compromise of MilitarySingles.com, a dating website for military personnel, and the leak of over 170937 account details from its database. The Pastebin post included links to RAR archives hosted on public file sharing websites that allegedly contain the names, usernames, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and passwords of 163,792 MilitarySingles.com users. 
"There are emails such as @us.army.mil ; @carney.navy.mil ; @greatlakes.cnet.navy.mil ; @microsoft.com ; etc.," the group wrote. 

The group announced the MilitarySingles.com hack on Twitter and Pastebin on Sunday, using the name "LulzSec Reborn" and ASCII art previously associated with LulzSec, the hacker group that apparently disbanded and merged with the Anonymous hacktivist collective last year.




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#opSOTU By Anonymous To Oppose Executive Cyber Security Order (The Revised CISPA)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/14/2013 03:16:00 pm

#opSOTU By Anonymous To Oppose Executive Cyber Security Order (The Revised CISPA)

Last year the Internet and its trillion of users across the globe has faced several barrier when, number of approach from Senate and government, along with few corporate and other organization were in the target to make the entire Internet censored. To engage this motive they have approached and introduced a number of regulations and act such as SOPA, PIPA, CISPA & ACTA. But to implement those enactment was not that easy, as huge number of organization (including White House, Wikipedia & so on), billions of mass people stand against those controversial act, and as expected those acts were ruled back, that said protest might not get the full success, if hackers around the globe did not take part in it. It was the hackers communities who forced the govt to roll back those rules. But the victory was not that easy to achieve, as the president of U.S. appeared before a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address and he plans to sign an executive order for cyber-security as the House Intelligence committee reintroduces the defeated CISPA act which turns private companies into government informants. As soon as the deceleration of the executive order for cyber-security came, immediately protest came. Hacktivist group Anonymous yet against stand against the controversial CISPA, and called an operation dubbed Operation SOTU (#opSOTU). In the campaign the hacker group states a clear intent to obstruct Internet broadcasts of the president's State of the Union address, an action the group justifies by pointing to renewed interest in Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a measure Anonymous has long opposed. 

Press Release of Anonymous (#opSOTU):- 
Citizens of the Internet,
Last year we faced our greatest threat from lawmakers. We faced down SOPA, PIPA, CISPA and ACTA.

And we won!

But that victory did not come easily. Nor did it come without a price.

Aaron Swartz was one of the leading voices in the fight against these idiotic and destructive efforts to control the last free space on Earth.

Aaron Swartz was persecuted. Now Aaron Swartz is dead.
Tonight, the President of the United States will appear before a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address and tomorrow he plans to sign an executive order for cyber-security as the House Intelligence committee reintroduces the defeated CISPA act which turns private companies into government informants.

He will not be covering the NDAA, an act of outright tyrannical legislation allowing for indefinite detention of citizens completely outside due process and the rule of law. In fact, lawyers for the government have point-blank refused to state whether or not journalists who cover stories or groups the Government disfavors would be subject to this detention.

He will not be covering the extra-judicial and unregulated justifications for targeted killings of citizens by military drones within the borders of America, or the fact that Orwellian newspeak had to be used to make words like “imminent” mean their opposite.

He will not be covering Bradley Manning, 1000 days in detention with no trial for revealing military murders, told that his motive for leaking cannot be taken into consideration, that the Government does not have room for conscience.

He will not be covering the secret interpretations of law that allow for warrant-less wiretapping and surveillance of any US citizen without probably cause of criminal acts, or the use of Catch-22 logic where no-one can complain about being snooped on because the state won’t tell you who they’re snooping on, and if you don’t know you’re being snooped on, you don’t have a right to complain.

We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet.
The President of the United States of America, and the Joint Session of Congress will face an Army tonight.
We will form a virtual blockade between Capitol Hill and the Internet. Armed with nothing more than Lulz, Nyancat and PEW-PEW-PEW! Lazers, we will face down the largest superpower on Earth.

And we will win!

There will be no State of the Union Address on the web tonight.

For freedom, for Aaron Swartz, for the Internet, and of course, for the lulz.

We Are Anonymous,
We Are Legion,
We Do Not forgive,
We Do Not forget,
Expect Us.

..."

But unlike last year, this time the approach of CISPA is more organized, as not only Congress but also the White House will also unveil President Barack Obama's long-awaited executive order on cyber security. So to stand against such an organized and well planned act, the protester need to be more decent and more united. As we all want and prefer freedom and privacy in our personal life as well as in the Internet, so we will fight and expect to win. So stay tuned with VOGH, and lets see what is coming for us. 




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Now Hackers will be thrown in Jail for 20 Years,If he does any damages to US national security

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/21/2011 12:22:00 am


The request includes doubling the maximum prison sentence to 20 years behind bars, according to Reuters. The Obama administration has been lobbying congress to increase sentences for those who break into government computer networks, or potentially endanger the country's national security. Recent high-profile attacks, including attacks on the CIA, the International Monetary Fund and military contractors serve to underpin the government's concern that its cyber laws may need updating to combat today's threat. Talks on changes to the cybersecurity bill have being going on for over a year. But there's another factor which requires consideration. Motive. What complicates matters is that it's no easy task to track down skilled hackers, as they are intent on keeping their anonymity. They could be based anywhere on the globe, and using any number of third-party machines, with or without authorisation, to mask their true location and identity. Does the US really want to spend huge amounts of resources to locate and identify a cyber prankster who wants his or her 15 minutes in the spotlight? No matter how disruptive it is to DDoS or pwn a site, should they be given the same focus as someone who is intent on threatening national security by stealing highly sensitive information?The motivation for hacktivists may be to gain some kudos from their peers on the internet, or to show off to rival groups, or simply a case of being bored and committing a cybercrime "because they can".
It seems to me that there was a big difference between attacks like those perpetrated by hacktivists which brought down the CIA website, and serious organised infiltration of networks to steal confidential information. But those hacktivists who expose firms' security weaknesses or embarrass companies for the "lulz" are not likely to be deterred by an increase in the criminal penalties. A better way to prevent them may be to make sure that your own networks and websites are in order where security is concerned. Consider the current hacking mayhem as a wake up call. Don't sit back and wait for arrests to happen. If you are unsure as to the quality of your network's security, it is a pretty good time to review it. After all, it is not just your company info and reputation that is at risk, but potentially your customers, who trusted you to keep their information safe from harm.
News Source (Naked Security)

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Jeremy Hammond -Key Member of Anonymous Affiliated LulzSec Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Hack

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/03/2013 09:07:00 pm

Jeremy Hammond -Key Member of Anonymous Affiliated LulzSec Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Hack, Could Face 10 Years In Prison

Lulz Security widely known as LulzSec, the most dangerous hacker collective group who set their devastating hacking rampage for fifty days in which they have successfully penetrated almost all the so called top secure fields; has suddenly stopped their sail. But stopping crime never means that the criminal will be overlooked, the pending punishment will surely take place. And this applied from LulzSec also. Lat year we have seen leader of LulzSec and also also leader of infamous hacker collective group Anonymous code-named "Sabu," whose real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, turned traitor to his community and became FBI informer and provided all the information on fellow hackers. The arrest of Sabu subsequently helped law-enforcement officials to infiltrate Lulzsec, an offshoot of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective that has supported an ever-shifting variety of causes. The information provided by Sabu lead FBI to arrest all the key members of LulzSec including Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Raynaldo Rivera, Cody Kretsinger and so on. Among them there was Jeremy Hammond widely known as "Anarchaos" who was arrested by the federal authorities and been charged for the  breach of the security analysis company Stratfor. In December last year the bail application of Hammond was also been rejected by the the Court. So after several hearings finally the accused of security breach against global intelligence firm Stratfor,  Jeremy Hammond pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to one count of computer fraud and abuse in response to charges that he hacked into the network of the privacy intelligence firm Stratfor, stealing millions of emails that eventually were given to WikiLeaks and published over the course of 2012. The plea agreement could carry a sentence of as much as 10 years in prison, as well as millions of dollars in restitution payments, though Hammond’s official sentence won’t be handed down until September. Hammond also told Judge Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court in Manhattan that in 2011 and 2012 he had gained unauthorized access to Stratfor’s computer systems and several other groups, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Virtual Academy, the public safety department in Arizona, and Vanguard Defense Industries, which makes drones. 
"Now that I have pleaded guilty, it is a relief to be able to say that I did work with Anonymous to hack Stratfor, among other websites," Hammond said in a statement on last Tuesday. 
A petition posted to Change.org by Hammond’s brother Jason Hammond asks the judge in Hammond’s case, Loretta Preska, to sentence him to time served, given that he’s already spent 15 months in lockup. “Jeremy did nothing for personal gain and everything in hopes of making the world a better place,” reads Hammond’s brother’s petition. “Jeremy is facing a maximum sentence of ten years, but the minimum is zero. He has been in jail since March 2012 awaiting trial and now sentencing. It’s time for him to come home.”


-Source (Forbes & Huffington Post)





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Lulzsec may be Officially Disbanded, But FBI is In Search of Lulzsec

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 05:27:00 am


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#LulzSec Planned To Back Again On April Fool's Day (#Project Mayhem!)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/23/2012 04:01:00 pm

#LulzSec Planned To Back Again On April Fool's Day (#Project Mayhem!)
We have good news for Hacktivist supporters and parallely bad news for corrupt Govt & Industries. Infamous hacker collective group named Lulzsec or Lulz Security promised to back live again on the day of 1st April. According to a You-Tube video - "Several days ago we decided to swiftly bring back our humble hacking group and set sail towards the Interwebz once again, much to the dismay of corrupt governments and corporations across the planet. It's ridiculous to believe that by arresting the six prime members of LulzSec that you've stopped us. You haven't stopped us, you have merely disrupted the active faction". The group announced that it would officially resume attacks on April 1, 2012. The video continued, "Lulzsec will start targeting governments, corporations, agencies, and quite possibly the people watching this video. We are here for the lulz, the fame, the anarchy, and the people." 
Since last 30 days we have seen many key members of Lulz & Anonymous are randomly getting busted by Federal authorities, so it can be suspected that coming April attack will be a tit for tat.  The announcement was previewed one day prior via the FawkesSecurity Twitter channel in a tweet that read, "Expect something BIG and rather Lulzworthy very soon. CIA, FBI, Interpol, you're all on teh (sic) list." Wednesday, meanwhile, tweets from the same Twitter channel promised that "Anonymous will target national infrastructure" and create a "global financial meltdown" as part of what's been dubbed "Project Mayhem." 
One thing is very unclear and that is the Twitter account AnonOps, which has 302,000 followers, has not mentioned Project Mayhem, Project Facebook, Operation Imperva, Operation Restore, or anything else on FawkesSecurity’s YouTube account. Furthermore, the Twitter account LulzSec is still silent and lulzsecurity.com is still down. So now it depends on you that how you will react this one, may be April Fool joke or may be some thing else. 


 

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LulzSec Hacker Cody Kretsinger Sentenced 1 Year Imprisonment For Sony Breach

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/20/2013 05:03:00 pm

LulzSec Hacker Cody Kretsinger Sentenced 1 Year Imprisonment For Security Breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment  

Infamous LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger who pleaded guilty last year in front of Federal Court of California for taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment server has faced judgement. 25 year aged Kretsinger who is also known as "Recursion" was one of the key member of Lulz Security, widely known to us as LulzSec, an offshoot of the international hacking group Anonymous. According to federal prosecutors, Cody Kretsinger has been sentenced to one year in prison in  Los Angeles. This court rule has been followed by home detention. Kretsinger, was also been ordered by a U.S. district judge in Los Angeles to perform 1,000 hours of community service after his release from prison, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Although prosecutors refused to say whether the hacker was co-operating with authorities in return for a softer sentence. 
During last year's plea hearing, Kretsinger told a federal judge that he gained access to the Sony Pictures website and gave the information he found there to other members of LulzSec, who posted it on the group's website and Twitter. "I joined LulzSec, your honor, at which point we gained access to the Sony Pictures website," said Kretsinger in the federal court. Prosecutors said Kretsinger and other LulzSec hackers, including those known as "Sabu" and "Topiary," stole the personal information of thousands of people after launching an "SQL injection" attack on the website; ultimately caused the unit of Sony Corp more than $600,000 in finical damage, along with that the attack caused bad impact and loss of faith for Sony Corporation and it's customers across the globe. 
While talking about this story, we would like to recap the decent history - where the arrest followed by guilty pleading of all the key members of LulzSec including  Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Jeremy Hammond, Raynaldo Rivera & Cody Kretsinger came a month after court documents revealed that Anonymous leader "Sabu," whose real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, turned traitor to his community and became FBI informer and provided all the information on fellow hackers.


-Source (Reuters & Yahoo) 





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CSS Corp- Global Information & Communication Technology Services Hacked By LulzSec

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/30/2012 08:49:00 pm

CSS Corp- Global Information & Communication Technology Services Hacked By LulzSec

LulzSec Reborn the newly formed hacker group who are claiming to be a part of hacktivist Anonymous strikes again. Yesterday the have hacked into the data base of MilitarySingles.com and exposed more than 163,792 user details including names, usernames, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and passwords. Now they have find their second target and that is CSS Corp (Global Information & Communication Technology Services). In a pastebin release they hacker group who are claiming to be infamous Lulzsec or in other word modified Lulz have posted entire email database of CSS Corp. Also they have leaked details (Email-id, Full name, user name, mobile number) several CSS users. Here’s what the group tweeted via the Twitter account lulzboatR, which now has over 2,000 followers. Still it is unclear that is it really the come back of Lulzsec or Lulz Security because the twitter account LulzSec is still silent and lulzsecurity.com is still down. And also if LulzSec Reborn is the revised Lulzsec then what about 1st April declaration made by FawkesSecurity. So here again it fully depends on you that will you trust these newly formed groups or just let them go. 




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Lulzec released their final Message for the Friends Around the Whole Spectrum

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/06/2011 04:44:00 pm



Lulzec released their final Message for the friends around the whole spectrum
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The Message of Lulzsec Follows:-

"Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us. For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It’s what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself. While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn’t that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did. Again, behind the mask …"

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Self Propagated LulzSec Leader 'Aush0k' Arrested By Australian Federal Police

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/05/2013 03:10:00 pm

Self Propagated LulzSec Leader 'Aush0k' Arrested in Sydney By Australian Federal Police (AFP)

Many of us knew Hector Xavier Monsegur widely known as 'Sabu' as the leader of infamous international hacker group LulzSec and Antisec. But this idea will surely be changed when you will hear the histrionic story, which came to light when a 24 old Australian proclaimed himself as the leader of notorious hacker collective group Lulz Security also known as LulzSec. The man, known online as Aush0k, is a senior Australian IT professional who works for the local arm of an international IT company. Police say he was in a "position of trust" within the company and had access to information on government clients which Aush0k manipulated and misused. According to Australian Federal Police a special investigation began less than two weeks ago when investigators found a government website had been compromised. The man has been charged with two counts of unauthorized modification of data to cause impairment and one count of unauthorized access to a restricted computer system. He faces a maximum of 12 years in jail. AFP Commander Glen McEwen says the man posted in online forums frequented by other members of LulzSec that he was the group's leader. "There was no denials of his claims of being the leader," added McEwen. The man was charged and appeared in court on the very day of his arrest. And he will face Woy Woy Local Court again on May 15. 
While talking about this dramatic story of proclaimed LulzSec leader Aush0k, we would love to remind you the decent history when the leader of Anonymous affiliated LulzSec "Sabu," whose real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, turned traitor to his community and became FBI informer and provided all the information on fellow hackers. As soon as the FBI gathered all the sensational information from Sabu, immediately we have seen the arrest of almost all the key members of LulzSec including Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Jeremy Hammond, Raynaldo Rivera, Cody Kretsinger and so on. And today we have seen the arrest of another LulzSec leader and key man, and this arrest is the first one done by the AFP. Earlier the arrest of Sabu proved very handy for the law and enforcement, may be this time also Aush0k's arrest can show them few more directions and can open few closed doors of investigation. So till time wait and stay tuned with VOGH for the updates on this story, also all the other cyber updates. 



-Source (ABC News)




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