The mysterious group known only as LulzSec has continued its rampage through the game industry, kicking off its biggest attack yet. "Titanic Takedown Tuesday" has seen Minecraft, EVE Online, League of Legends and games site The Escapist all taken offline.
LulzSec has been taking requests and "laughing at crybabies" as it displays its capability to apparently strike down anything at a whim.
One can't help but be impressed by the sheer audacity, at the very least.
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3:00 PM on 06.14.2011
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What are they trying to achieve?
What are they trying to achieve?
As of now, it's just stupid.
*shifty eyes*
Was that them too? I read about it briefly on CNN but they didn't specify whom.
Get on that shit, Obama.
Yup, the extract is on the lulzsec site as we speak.
Sure you could say "wow that's impressive" but what the fuck is the point.
For. Fuck's. Sake.
That'd make my day.
That would be like you going to the DMV, filling out a form with all of your information including credit card info, etc, and then the DMV leaving it out in the open for anybody to take it.
But you know, carry on being pissed at lulzsec and not say, Sony who had over 100,000 customer data on unencrypted .txt files
Yeah, man. LulzSec are like... heroes, man. They're, like, stickin' it to the man, man. They're exposing the man's mistakes, man. They're heroes; they're just not appreciated in their own time, man.
Seriously. I don't know how you can defend LulzSec. You just can't defend them.
Good thinking. I think I'll start robbing banks to show how poorly they secure other people's money. People will be so grateful.
THE COMPANIES AREN'T TRYING TO EXTORT, EXPLOIT, AND USE OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION
I still can't believe people defend these hackers for putting thousands of people at risk simply because they happen to like a game. And how can you even blame Mojang? They're an indy company that is only now starting to expand. Of course they don't have the security measures to fend off a large scale invasion. And Lulz is not going to stop once security gets better. They will keep going in order to piss people off and gain money. There is not even a shred of the "Anonymous cause" here. They just want to hack and hack.
I just did, it's really easy to defend them when you actually know what you're talking about.
Take the Bethesda hacking for example. It's been confirmed that Bethesda did not know lulzsec had even hacked into their system until after they announced it, wherein Bethesda did an investigation to find that the claim infact was true.
So, my question based on this knowlege is, how do we know other people haven't already hacked Bethesda and haven't already taken off with that information?
Lulzsec are making it public and announcing it, they're exposing the problem. Most of what Lulzsec are doing is basic SQL injections, compared to what's usually involved with hacking into industry and governmental servers, that's nothing. That's the issue, there's no security here, and we don't know for sure that this info wasn't already taken.
I can't believe people actually buy into that.
Hey let's go shoot civilians and blame them for their lack of bulletproof vests. Of course we won't kill them because that would be wrong. We'll just teach them a lesson.
Just another reason to stay off the Internet.
Explain to me one thing then:
Why not just say so?
"Hey Bethesda, we found a flaw in your security. This is it"
It would certainly help their PR and their state of 'not being a criminal'
How are the Schick razors holding up?
Yes, because, you have clearly downloaded the files they've released.
You know, how the Bethesda file had all passwords removed (Outside of the admin accounts) and no other private data outside of Usernames and Emails posted.
@RichardBlaine
Yes because banks typically leave their vaults wide open and allow anyone to walk in and take it, this is a perfect analogy you're making here.
@bEAR
Yes that's the whole point. They're not doing anything complicated, that's the whole issue there is a huge lack of security here.
@Jason346
A group hacking into a company website and then emailing the company explaining what they did gets zero publicity and does not make the news, exposing the problem. Maybe, it gets talked about for a day. Several hacking attempts using the same method over and over again on high profile companies does expose the problem.
Also, @AnotherRumpKicker: And what about they hacking inside Bethesda demanding more info about Skyrim? Did that count as trying to make the internet safe? Or you just hear what you want to hear?
'So, my question based on this knowlege is, how do we know other people haven't already hacked Bethesda and haven't already taken off with that information?'
We don't know that other people haven't already hacked Bethesda and taken off with that information. However, we trust that 'other people' haven't nicked off with that information because we know for a fact that not everyone is part of the LulzSec Douche Parade.