ImageShack Hacked, Security Groups Threatened

revjtanton writes "Last night a group calling themselves 'Anti-Sec' hacked ImageShack, one of the largest image hosting sites on the web, and replaced many of the site's hosted pictures with one of their own, which detailed their manifesto. The group's grievance is against full-disclosure of exploits, an issue that was debated recently after a presentation on an ATM exploit was canceled. Anti-Sec simply wants the practice within security circles to end, and they've promised to cause 'mayhem and destruction' if it doesn't. These people are taking direct aim against a sector of the IT industry that is already armed to fight the ... but they also already know that. It should be interesting to see how this plays out."

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Astalavista

[Spyware23]

For interested readers; these were the same people who killed astalavista. (Logs of that attack can be found all over the internet if you google).

Re:wow what an awesome idea!

[Pyrion]

Except they haven't replaced all of the images. I just looked in my account and only one of my images (a horribly outdated tf2 screenshot, of all things) was replaced.

Re:Leave door open or we will rob you ?

[binkzz]

1) I think that's a good thing
2) They don't want the world to not know about the exploits, they just don't want the world to know how to use those exploits
3) These exploits would still be in the hands of the security companies so that they could prepare protection against them

I'm not sure how you came to your conclusions, I don't believe they are correct.