Why do you think people hack things? lol
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Eh surviving and mitigating DDoS attacks is :tif:
LZ, can you correlate or explain how it escalated from Denial of Service to data breech? Maybe not in this specific case, but in general how hackers do this? Was it just a 2-fold hack where they do a DDoS while trying other things to get into data or does the DDoS attack make them vulnerable to other attacks? Seriously curious here.
The DDoS attack was a completely separate incident like a week or so ago…
Anonymous was using LOIC or whatever DoS tool of the week they like to hold the PSN servers offline.
DoS/DDoS attacks don’t result in gaining any information or anything useful
They’re just used to keep sites/server/whatever offline and unusable.
I know there was speculation about how they got hacked and what not…The interesting thing is credit card data is supposed to be stored encrypted and has a number of requirements due to PCI standards for someone to dump the user database and correlate it against CC’s they got seriously pwned.
However this sort of thing isn’t uncommon tons of large companies get hacked all the time in recent years they’re not required to report it and not cover it up which is why you see a lot more of this in the news.
http://nation.foxnews.com/lulzsec/2012/03/06/leaders-infamous-hacking-group-lulzsec-arrested
Guess they should have stopped bragging online sooner and taunting the feds lol
^^^ Th3 J3st3r d0x’ed Sabu last year. He was suspicious and said the feds were gonna grab him if they didn’t yet
https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/if-i-am-wrong-ill-say-im-wrong-heres-my-apology/
In 6 months, most of those kids will have high paying OpSec jobs with the government or private contractors.
Uh was this a serious comment?
It was a bunch of script kiddies who are all facing a shit ton of jail time
No they actually nailed some of the few decent hackers. These weren’t the LOIC users that just DDoSed websites.
Kayla and Topiary were just the outspoken front people but Anarchaos was the person who found the leaks and the brains behind the Staratfor hacks and the other two and him were responsible for the actual breaches of Fine Gael, HBGary Federal and Fox Broadcasting Company. Anonymous is a circus of idiots with a few major people at its core who are pretty scary good and at least two of these guys were the good ones.
None of those attacks were anything complicated…
This isn’t like China writing some Microsoft 0day and targeting google.
These attacks were SQL Injections, Social Engineering, dumb luck.
I have been pentesting as a full time gig for 3 months now it’s not hard to rip companies wide open health care, fortune500, banks, etc
Everyone builds their networks like a M&M hard outside soft inside…then you get some clueless dev/admin to make a simple mistake and you get picked apart.
If you want to talk about interesting stuff go find whoever hacked RSA so they could then go hack DoD contractors lol
In the butt.
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In the butt.