Alert Aussies Arrest Aggressive Attacker
Good news everybody!
Australian Federal Police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group, LulzSec. It’s the collective that claimed responsibility for infiltrating and shutting down the CIA website.
Police reported the 24 year old IT worker was arrested in Sydney and charged with hacking crimes which could earn him 10 years in prison.
Police said the man was arrested at his work place where he had access to “sensitive information from clients including government agencies.”
LulzSec is an offshoot of the international hacking group, Anonymous. It has taken credit for hacking attacks on government and private sector computers including the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox Studios, and Nintendo.
The two cyber hacking groups became notorious in late 2010 when they launched what they called the “first cyber war” in retaliation for attempts to shut down the Wiki leaks website.
The name LulzSec is a combination of “lulz” which is apparently another way of writing lols, and the word security.
You can learn more at this web site:
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/lulzsec-leader-arrested-australian-cops-say-6C9576130
Hmmm….
They caught a mighty big hacker,
He wasn’t your everyday slacker;
He made cyber war,
But not anymore,
He’s now one jailed attacker.
Humorous Interludes by Ron Yarosh 
Times Temper Tested Twice
The NY Times was hacked for the second time this month.
It’s working to make its website available again for all readers after it was disrupted by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army in an exploit that also affected Twitter.
The group disrupted traffic to the websites by hacking yesterday into registration-services provider Melbourne IT Ltd. (MLB), which handles the online addresses of nytimes.com and twitter.co.uk, according to Tony Smith, a spokesman for the Melbourne-based company.
The Times instructed readers who can’t access its home page to go to an alternate site.
Some users initially reported being redirected to the Syrian group’s sites. Many were simply unable to access the pages at all.
The Syrian Electronic Army, which backs the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has also claimed responsibility for hacking the Washington Post this month and the Financial Times in early May, redirecting readers to its own websites and videos.
“The credentials of a Melbourne IT reseller (username and password) were used to access a reseller account on Melbourne IT’s systems,” Smith wrote in an e-mail. He said the login information was obtained through phishing, a technique used to obtain private data by imitating legitimate websites.
It may take time before all users can get normal access to the newspaper’s site, Smith said. Times employees have been instructed to use caution when sending sensitive e-mails, the newspaper said.
Found at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-28/ny-times-twitter-web-address-data-hacked-by-syrian-group.html
Hmmm…
The Syrians attacked again,
Subscribers again complained;
They did it times two,
Who’s next? Maybe you,
We’re sorry’s the current refrain.
The Syrians did some Phishing,
For data they were a whishing;
They went through Melbourne,
Resulting in scorn,
The Times must be Syrian dissing.
© 2013 Ronald J. Yarosh
All rights reserved.
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