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of interest [edit, arrest link below]: http://twitter.com/#!/channel4news/status/83129762142363649 19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in Wickford, Essex. #c4news
of interest [edit, arrest link below]: http://twitter.com/#!/channel4news/status/83129762142363649 19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in Wickford, Essex. #c4news
http://content.met.police.uk/News/eCrime-unit-arrest-man/126...
If true, this will be a massive coup and regardless of how they obtained the records, LulzSec will get all of the significant negative attention they so badly crave. I submitted my census info via the online form and given the amount of detail I included I would be terrified if that info was leaked.
Why would you be terrified? There isn't that much information on the census form - name, age, address, nationality and employer, roughly.
Apart from the obvious ID theft risk.
of interest [edit, arrest link below]: http://twitter.com/#!/channel4news/status/83129762142363649 19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in Wickford, Essex. #c4news
It's on the Met Police site - http://content.met.police.uk/News/eCrime-unit-arrest-man/126...
Given LulzSec seems to post their hacks on twitter, that there's no way of validating who posted the PasteBin item and that the Office of National Statistics hasn't reported the loss, its probably best to wait and see something a little more convincing.
I don't like where this is going.
Whats worrying about the apparent proliferation of security breaches like this is that as the attacks get more sophisticated, so do the prevention methods. This could get to the point whereby the skill level required to protect an application or server goes way higher than the skill level of many developers. The result being that independent development is impossible as you would need to hire ever more expensive secu…
I quite liked this post: http://1raindrop.typepad.com/1_raindrop/2011/06/unfrozen-cav... people are just not investing in security. Most of the attacks are not very sophisticated, it is just no one is spending money on solving the basic security weaknesses.
Given LulzSec seems to post their hacks on twitter, that there's no way of validating who posted the PasteBin item and that the Office of National Statistics hasn't reported the loss, its probably best to wait and see something a little more convincing.