Hackers C or D?

Part of me wishes I had the |337 sk1llz to deface websites - it would be a wonderful way of getting back at people who've fucked me over, at least, but it's probably a good thing I can't.

YU0 = 0\/\/|\|3D, Fux0R!@#!@#

I really, really hate it when some really good site gets hacked by some loser, who deletse all the files. And the site gets shut down because they for some dumb reason don't have backups.
I've seen this happen to many good sites that have no political focus or anything that would lead you to believe that the hacking would be for any good reason (well, there's always the personal vendetta thing, of course!)

And the whole thing sort of lost its charm years ago when all sorts of kids got on the internet and download cracking programs from websites and go to work with those, isntead of, y'know, knowing what the hell they're doing.
The great clicknuke-wars of 98/99, anyone?

Would have taken actual work, when "fast food hacking" is so much simpler.

The Heirarchy (from most respected to least respected):

• GURU
  
• WIZARD
  
• THE ELITE
  
• HACKER
  
• PROGRAMMER
  
• INFORMED USER
  
• UNINFORMED USER (aka L'USER)
  
• CRACKER
  
• WAR3Z D00D
  
• (pond scum)
  
• VULTURE CAPITALIST
  
• (vaginal yeast)
  
• POINTY HAIRED BOSSES / SKR1PT K1DD13 (tie)
  
• (cockroaches)
  
• MARKETROID
  
• (flesh eating bacteria)
  
• VIRUS BUILDER

I'm not sure how romantic the hacker thing is in reality. I mean Lamos has a kind of romanticism about him because of the entire 'homeless hacker' thing... But, hacking is generally involves long stretches of time pounding away at security measures until something gives. Not really that glamorous.

Hackers have become much more political over the years though, and I find this much more fascinating than the old 80s phreaker stuff.

no movie has aged as gracefully as 'hackers'

"You're in the butterzone now, baby!"

Vernon Kay has reassured friends and family he's alive and well after his Wikipedia entry claimed he had died.

A hacker had altered the TV star's page to say he'd drowned in a tragic yachting accident in Greece and that his funeral would be this Friday in Bolton.

A hacker had altered the TV star's page to say he'd drowned in a tragic yachting accident in Greece. Vernon was surprised to find his mates calling him to check he was okay after reading the entry.

But he's insisted he's at home and wishes he was actually on holiday in Greece.

Kay's not the first major UK figure to be targeted by Wikipedia vandals - footballer Ashley Cole was famously slurred in the past.

A hacker or a vandal? I think it's art.

I didn't realise that editing Wikipedia required l33t 5k1llz nowadays.

The term "hacking" in 2008 is obviously somewhat devalued, if one can be a "hacked" by merely defacing a WP page :( Maybe leaving snotty messages in youtube comment boxes is "hacking" too. (pff x-post, FP beat me to it, obviously he is a "hacker" too)

"hacker", nor "hacked" pffff, obviously I have hacked myself too.

lol!

(I have "cracked" in my time, in the sense of "break copy-protection", but not very often. The last was a month or two when I wanted to try out a piece of rather specialist software that didn't have any sort of demo-mode)

a month or two *ago* even

Not sure how a sentence managed to repeat itself in that c+p by the way but you get the picture

Hack the planet!!

Did you think I was black?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/sslteam.JPG

Good stuff:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/chinese-hacking-201109

these two recent articles on stuxnet are pretty good too:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet-the-most-menacing-malware-in-history.ars
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/1

reading schneier call stuxnet 'military grade' really makes me realize that we're entering interesting (and slightly frightening) times

and here's the schneier post i mentioned http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/attacking_plcs.html

See I dont understand stuff like stuxnet. What the heck is a freaking nuclear power plant doing with internet access to start with!?

I thought one of the things about stuxnet was that it was designed to spread without internet, precisely because the system it was designed to attack may not be online - it was initially introduced from a USB stick & then exploited intranet-type functions such as printer-networks to spread itself, rather than the usual email/website methods.

This is the first I've heard of it, but I'm reading the Wired article and it's an utterly fascinating and exciting story.

I just linked to the Wired article on twitter and garnered this new follower... https://twitter.com/#!/plcdrivesco

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2011/08/03/the-plutocrat-of-cyberwar-speaks/

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6587214

That's 7.39 gb of mails about police corruption and coverups and stuff, apparently.

http://gizmodo.com/5890825/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17270822

https://img.skitch.com/20120304-kt2w2i7mtjgjjbqi9g61xw88pm.jpg

"He didn't go easy," a law enforcement official involved in flipping Sabu told FoxNews.com. "It was because of his kids. He didn't want to go away to prison and leave them. That's how we got him.

um, would the fbi really come out and say something like this? all sounds fishy to me.

The actual threat was to lock him in a room with a bunch of people talking about how sad it was that Breitbart died.

Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

BIG ruby on rails vulnerability discovered. if you have a site built on rails, it's probably a good idea to patch it up

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/01/09/serialization-mischief-in-ruby-land-cve-2013-0156

Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/game-king/

dunno if this has been posted elsewhere but it's flippin' insane

http://specialreports.dailydot.com/how-to-destroy-an-american-family

This one too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html

in the first one I'm strongly inclined to believe the family should be exiling their little shithead son who dragged them into this and hope that gets them off the target list

That's not what matters. Honestly what's needed is about another hundred thousand investigators, prosecutors, special agents and run-of-the-mill detectives who understand this garbage and can afford to put in the time necessary to put Lizard Squad and their ilk into the appropriate reformative institutions. Instruments of the state are falling down on the job.

Otm

Article sparked me to go down a Twitter rabbit hole of disgusting black hat hacker turd wranglers. Just about the worst people alive that don't commit physical violence.