LulzSec Nabs Source Code for Sony Dev Site

[fundayz]

And you are thinking that attacking Sony as a Corporation isn't going to affect their customers at all, when already they have been affected and are still being affected by this. Any corporation that gets attacked regardless of who it is, their customers are affected.

I have never claimed that Sony customers have/will not be affected because they very clearly are.

You say "They are affecting Sony customers" to which I say "They don't care about Sony customers one way or another" to which you reply... "they are affecting Sony customers"? I don't get what you are trying to get at.

 

[AbstractStream]

Just no way...are you serious??
I don't even know how to react to this anymore.

 

[bit_crusherrr]

Fuck it, I don't know what annoys me more. The fact that Sony can't seem to sort out their damn security, or that these people keep hacking Sony over and over again.

Nothing Is hackproof.

 

[Harry Mason]

...Is there any kind of conformation that this ACTUALLY HAPPENED other than some moron's Twitter account? Because, if my Twitter account is to believed, I just wrestled a lion on the moon.

Seriously. Until I get an official statement from Sony or pretty much ANYONE else, you can color me unimpressed, Fucksec.

 

[Kopikatsu]

...Is there any kind of conformation that this ACTUALLY HAPPENED other than some moron's Twitter account? Because, if my Twitter account is to believed, I just wrestled a lion on the moon.

Seriously. Until I get an official statement from Sony or pretty much ANYONE else, you can color me unimpressed, Fucksec.

Actually...yes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110604/tc_zd/265261

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110605/tc_digitaltrends/nintendohackedbylulzsecnoharmdone

There are more...they're just a Google away.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Er...lag made me double post. IGNORE THIS

 

[Hatchet90]

Somehow I feel this video is appropriate.

 

[Harry Mason]

...Is there any kind of conformation that this ACTUALLY HAPPENED other than some moron's Twitter account? Because, if my Twitter account is to believed, I just wrestled a lion on the moon.

Seriously. Until I get an official statement from Sony or pretty much ANYONE else, you can color me unimpressed, Fucksec.

Actually...yes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110604/tc_zd/265261

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110605/tc_digitaltrends/nintendohackedbylulzsecnoharmdone

There are more...they're just a Google away.

OK, thanks! Why wasn't one of these linked in the original article?

Perhaps it's just me being lazy and not Googling things, but I feel like an article as incomplete as this is just like saying "One time my cousin caught a fish that was as big as an airplane!" With just a Facebook status as proof.

 

[LunaSocks]

LulzSec just keeps on kicking the crap out of Sony, don't they?

The only way they could humiliate Sony more is if they hack them during E3 and mess with the conference. That would be hilarious if they just started playing NyanCat all of a sudden.

 

[Magikarp]

I wouldn't say they failed to snag user data from Nintendo, more that they didn't feel like doing it because they liked them to much

But there's a pretty good chance that they're just saying that to cover up their failings. What's better for their image, "we like them too much", or "we weren't good enough"?

 

[Awexsome]

There's no way Sony just continued using shitty security at this point. I think these hackers are just really good and are pissed off and think they are above the law.

They have to be stopped. Is every corporation going to have to please these people or have their customer's personal info and company secrets compromised?

It can't be too hard for the FBI to figure which websites or services they use and shut them down to investigate. Sure it would be inconvenient but what they're doing is already illegal AND inconvenient.

 

[Traun]

I feel like everyone who goes to the news section stays out of the off-topic discussion...(and don't know what a script kiddie is)

Anyway, I feel like clarifying this. LulzSec recently hacked the FBI affiliate Infragard. Specifically the Atlanta branch. If you don't know (And I doubt you do), Infragard is responsible for the FBI's cyber security, and recently set up the Infragard Atlanta Alliance specifically to defend against hacking attempts. Like with all their attacks, LulzSec announced the attack a week ahead of time...and still hacked Infragard in a few hours.

Basically, LulzSec is made up of skilled individuals who took down the IAA easily on a budget of ~$160. Now they have ~$7,800 in donations.

Attempting to defend against their attacks is basically an effort in futility at this point. People on this site seem to like to write them off as script kiddies or kids who think that they're badass...but...

It's much, much more serious than that.

This.

I'd skimmed through the thread about the hack, living in Atlanta I was a bit interested, but didn't think much of it. They reported on the infiltration earlier this week, very briefly. When I first heard about the hack, I was simply thought, "Great, now these guys count as terrorists." But then when I found out that the FBI affiliate was designed for cyber security and specifically made for defense against hacking...the words I got out were "well fuck..."

That's when I realized these guys weren't just a few kids with cheap tricks. They know what they're doing. The only reason they didn't really fuck up Nintendo is because the like them, have fond memories of them, and didn't really have a reason too. Nostalgia spared Nintendo. But they've hacked into a federal agency, an affiliate of a federal specifically designed for handling hacking attempts, who received warnings ahead of time before the attack...

If you think they can hack Sony just because they have bad security, you are damn wrong.

I had no idea of this. I guess it's a good thing I cleared my Steam CC info.
Hope that they continue doing things for the lulz, would hate to see the day they decide to go for the money.

 

[Ice Car]

Are you kidding me? Just stop it already, he's already dead!

He's been dead for 3 months now, and the gangs and criminals keep raping and desecrating the body. Disgraceful.

 

[Agayek]

I feel like everyone who goes to the news section stays out of the off-topic discussion...(and don't know what a script kiddie is)

Anyway, I feel like clarifying this. LulzSec recently hacked the FBI affiliate InfraGard. Specifically the Atlanta branch. If you don't know (And I doubt you do), InfraGard is responsible for the FBI's cyber security, and recently set up the InfraGard Atlanta Alliance specifically to defend against hacking attempts. Like with all their attacks, LulzSec announced the attack a week ahead of time...and still hacked InfraGard in a few hours.

Basically, LulzSec is made up of skilled individuals who took down the IAA easily on a budget of ~$160. Now they have ~$7,800 in donations.

Attempting to defend against their attacks is basically an effort in futility at this point. People on this site seem to like to write them off as script kiddies or kids who think that they're badass...but...

It's much, much more serious than that.

Also, I feel that it's worth mentioning that LulzSecurity.com can't be DDOSed.

PROOFZ:

"Someone did compromise the website," InfraGard Atlanta Members Alliance President Paul Farley said in a brief email 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 U.S. 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.

Source: http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/blogpost/9687803/

(Also, if you went to InfraGard's website a few days ago, you were greeted with a video meme.)

I actually did read your other thread and knew all about what LulzSec has done. They are an incredibly skilled group of individuals, I'm not about to suggest otherwise.

That doesn't necessarily mean Sony is doing security right, though. They might be, I don't have the technical expertise or situational information necessary to say one way or the other.

All of that said, according to LulzSec's notice about the InfraGard hack, InfraGard didn't secure their shit nearly as well as they should have. Security professionals reusing passwords is a glaring sign of incompetence, not to mention the corruption displayed by InfraGard's leader.

I'm not saying Sony should have an Impenetrable Doom Fortress (I'd go with Dark Fortress, but I dunno the alt-code for umlaut'd a), just that they should display basic competence in the security realm, and it really seems like they have not.

 

[Furism]

I wonder what it's like to be a Japanese CEO and have your company lose face this badly, consistently, and publicly for this long.

Sony's CEO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer] is American, just putting that out here.

 

[wrightguy0]

so the goal here is to bring down a company, not just any company, but one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers and Japan's largest international Corporation, a nation that desperately needs international confidence in it's products, services and exports to maintain an economy so battered by the recent earthquake that it's still teetering on the edge of oblivion, not to mention the thousands employed by sony all over the world, the retailers who sell their products and the consumers that enjoy them and the thousands of developers who work with them, the actors, directors and film crews who work with sony pictures, the locations that benefit from having them make movies there, the manufacturers who make parts for sony. thanks LulzSuck, for screwing not only one "souless" corporation, but the millions of people who depend on them to survive, directly or indirectly, the struggling economy of japan, and the millions who will suffer the indignity of layoffs all because you pricks wanted a few laughs, and you have the gall to call sony selfish? Fuck you LulzSuck, kiss my nads, you greasy, socially inept attention whoring motherfuckers.

 

[pwndnoob]

I think it's time to remember that Sony hacking happened partly as a result of their horrific treatment of that one hacker guy. It's not like they attacked Sony just for the lawls, or whatever.

I think this is more a case of people getting tired of old news than the attacks being unjustified (well, for illegal hacking's standards). I'm not saying they should continue, but please remember why Sony got attacked in the first place.