


The group also grabbed 200,000 accounts from a popular hacker forum.


I. Bye Bye Birdie


Friends around the globe,






Let it flow...


II.  750,000 More People Exposed




EA appears to confirm the breach, writing:

Battlefield Heroes is Offline




The forum writes:


Probable data breach from a NATO-related website




III. Why the Sudden Exit?


He writes:
Nobody is leaving. we're working on the #antisec movement.


No one is disappearing. find us all @ #antisec



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RE: To defeat them...
By MeesterNid on 6/26/2011 3:12:39 AM , Rating: 5
lol, what? Are you also going to tell your bank, utility company, doctor's office, work/school, etc to do the same? It's not like the only place they have to get your personal info is your own computer.

RE: To defeat them...
By ussfletcher on 6/26/2011 3:14:54 AM , Rating: 2
Also, LulzSec isn't some magical hacking enterprise, they are making use of some freeware tools to run exploits on servers... The same things people have been doing silently for years.

RE: To defeat them...
By icanhascpu on 6/26/11, Rating: -1
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By freeagle on 6/26/2011 5:12:16 AM , Rating: 2
There will be others that can and will do a hell of a lot more damage to the common person unless laws start to come into place to make corporations more accountable.

No, not laws. All you'd gain from that is a false feeling of security.

RE: To defeat them...
By wordsworm on 6/26/2011 7:09:51 AM , Rating: 2
I suppose that would be a bit like trying to put all the gas station and liquor store robbers in jail or passing more laws against those who commit them. No matter what, there's another piece of trash to take the last one's place. The solution must then be what? What can we do to prevent every rapist from raping? every murderer from murdering? every molester from molesting? every hacker from hacking?

I've heard lots of security experts say that there is no such thing as an absolutely secure network unless it's not connected to the Internet. So, aside from that solution, what do you think that they ought to do? I mean, aside from a blanket statement that they ought to be held accountable for the actions of others? ie, blame the child for the molestation, the murdered for the murder, and the raped for the rape? Is that the idea behind 'make corporations more accountable'?

Maybe the real trick is to force the adoption of new ip protocols. Assign every device that uses the Internet a number, and require that every Internet user be a registered Internet citizen with their own unique identity, have all devices be required to be registered to an Internet citizen. Make open Wifi portals illegal unless there is some kind of registration system where people are required to identify themselves for every bit of information that gets up- or down-loaded. That way, perhaps people could be identified more quickly for the crimes that they commit.

Whatever the case, the only way to become more secure is to give up our anonymity. Maybe that's the era that those Lulzers will help usher us into.

RE: To defeat them...
By freeagle on 6/26/2011 8:20:36 AM , Rating: 2
No, no registrations. That would create even more centralization. We, people, individuals, need to take control back to us, not give even more away.

The way we indetify ourselves on the internet is upside down. We take our usernames and passwords, give them to some authority and ask: "I have this and this. Am I me?". We give that which makes us to someone else. That's what's wrong.

RE: To defeat them...
By bodar on 6/26/2011 9:01:06 AM , Rating: 1
And you don't think these unique IDs will be spoofed by criminals and griefers? Keep dreaming. Now you're just eliminating online privacy for the illusion of security. Good job.

Yes, any system can be compromised given enough time, effort, and resources, but it is the job of IT security to use multiple layers of security to mitigate the damage of a breach. If management wants to skimp on the security then they simply don't deserve our business.

Would you give your bank a free pass if they locked the safety deposit room with a bike lock and called it a day? And after the robbery, they said "Oops, sorry we didn't protect your valuables better... here's a free toaster!" There are reasonable security measures (allegedly) NOT being taken here, like server patches.

RE: To defeat them...
By BugblatterIII on 6/27/2011 3:58:21 AM , Rating: 2
The point of accountability isn't to victimise companies; it's to make them responsible for taking reasonable precautions.

We've seen time and again that these hacks are being achieved with very simple attacks, e.g. SQL injection. There's no excuse for being vulnerable to that. These companies have a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect our data.

Who can determine what's reasonable? Since you have a judiciary that doesn't even know enough about tech to want the bigger gee bees that's a tricky one. However the situation should improve with time.

RE: To defeat them...
By Mike Acker on 6/26/11, Rating: -1
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that's what will allow corporations to rise prices of products


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What's stopping them now?




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