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While the number of attacks, or what systems were breached exactly, aren’t known, the MoD admits that it’s enough of a wakeup call to get smarter when it comes to defending itself from online attacks.

It’s quite shocking to see that what appears to be the US equivalent to the FBI or Secret Service, not having the know-how or staff to keep one step ahead of hackers in this digital age.

]]> bad_brain@suck-o.com (computathug) frontpage Fri, 04 May 2012 05:27:46 +0000 http://www.suck-o.com/index.php/the-news/269-vx-heavens-down http://www.suck-o.com/index.php/the-news/269-vx-heavens-down The great malware archive VX Heavens (and yes, it was REALLY an archive, such cool really old malware to find on it) has been closed by the Ukrainian authorities a week ago.

Here the announcement on the site:

Dear friends

How you can see, the VX Heavens server is unreachable since 23.03.2012. VX Heavens' administration sincerelly apologies for the inconvenience caused to You.

For many years we were tried hard to establish a reliable work of the site, which supplied you with a professional quality information on systems security and computer virology. We do always believed that a true research in any field (computer virology included) is only possible in the atmosphere of trust, openness and mutual assistance.

The notorious hacker group Anonymous managed to take down the DNS servers for (roughly) seven minutes just a few moments ago. This time employing multiple botnets to compliment the usual LOIC volunteers.

I have been camping their IRC channels and I don't know if they took down Internet world-wide or just the Europe part but I certainly felt the attack.

Official prepared video statement from the Anonymous group can be found here. (it's a private video for the time being, will go live later today, enjoy the exclusive!)

In case they attack again and do more damage this time, Google IP is 173.194.35.178. Feel free to add more just as a precaution.

Stay tuned for more info and IRC logs!

The full story now in my blog.

A law enforcement official has confirmed the allegations would be made public on Tuesday in court.

Earlier Fox News reported that three of the arrested members have already been charged with conspiracy. The five arrested are identified in the report as Ryan Ackroyd, aka "Kayla" and Jake Davis, aka "Topiary" from London, two residents of Ireland, Darren Martyn, aka "pwnsauce" and Donncha O'Cearrbhail, aka "palladium", and Jeremy Hammond aka "Anarchaos," from Chicago, USA.

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The CIA’s website is definitely down as of the writing of this post, and Anonymous is claiming responsibility. Given their previous track record, it’s pretty safe to assume that this is exactly what it looks like. During their last frenzy after the MegaUpload takedown, Anonymous claimed to have taken down a slew of other high profile targets, including the DOJ, MPAA, RIAA, and FBI websites, an attack on the CIA homepage would round out that list nicely. Granted, it’s just a DDoS attack, not a more serious breach of security like a leaked phone call or anything, but it’s still got to sting a bit if you’re the CIA.

Government attempts to knock out file-sharing sites in the battle against music and film piracy could be doomed.

A new file-sharing software called Tribler cannot be knocked out by governments or anti-piracy organisations, its creators claim.

'The only way to take it down is to take the internet down,' says Dr Pouwelse of Delft University of Technology.

Tribler is a variant on the popular BitTorrent file-sharing software, but is designed specifically to stay online under any circumstances - including attacks by governments and anti-piracy organisations.

'Tribler is designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline,' says file-sharing news site Torrentfreak.

Moves such as the seizure of the Megaupload domain by U.S. authorities would not work against Tribler.

Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks.

Razvan Manole Cernaianu, 20, from Timisoara, is accused of publishing details of the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on the targeted websites under the hacker handle TinKode. The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) further alleges that Cernaianu, an IT student, sold hacking tools from his personal site.

]]> ph0byx@gmail.com (ph0bYx) frontpage Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:15 +0000