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EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec
lordsilence writes "It seems LulzSec is now targeting CCP Games' Eve Online with a denial of service attack. The extent of this attack is yet not known but the game cluster and EVEOnline.com website are down at the writing of this post.. A possible reason for targeting CCP could be the affiliation with Sony. CCP recently announced during E3 that their upcoming game Dust514 would be Sony Playstation 3 exclusive."
Mincraft.net was also a target, but appears to be up and running.
Escapist Magazine is down.
I call BS on the Sony affiliate thing. They've also attacked Minecraft, and the Escapist Magazine. These guys have no purpose or cause other than drama, they are just Anonymous rejects (which is kinda sad) looking for attention.
Curious on how will they justify their actions when they attack UNESCO or Greenpeace. Affiliation with Sony my ass.
Or maybe they don't have a motive and are just being dicks for the sake of being dicks.
Everyone knows the REAL hackers play eve online.
"IT departments everywhere noted huge gains in productivity today, as LulzSec announced it was taking Eve Online, offline. 'We don't know what happened exactly, but the whole tech crew start screaming about their crack being gone, and suddenly things started to get fixed. Oh - and they all even took showers.'"
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
I'm somewhat inclined to wonder if this is just part of some terrifyingly value-rational spreadsheet junkie's byzantine plan to manipulate the market in refined-fictionalonium futures or something of the sort...
ok anonymous can go die in a fire, Just because Dust 514 is PS3 exclusive doesn't mean they need attacking. What next, DDoS Blizzard because diablo 3 looks too much like WoW?
It seems like LulzSec just targets anyone that will get them attention, not just those affiliated with Sony. As the members get caught, I'm very interested in seeing how their "we do it for the lulz" defense plays out in court.
Also Minecraft & www.finfisher.com
Ruin it for everybody, this is the kind of shit power mongering senators die for.
This has to do with their Twitter feed. They were asking people for suggestions on who to aim for. Someone called in and must have requested Eve online. They stated they intended to take down the login server, but it also accidentally took down the webserver.
Here's their offer: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/80675710246723584
Here's their following post with the result: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/80681360292978688
Looks like they also took down the minecraft login server, escapistmagazine's web server, and finfisher's web server (some IS company?). They're calling it TitanicTakeoverTuesday.
Is that Dust514 is going to be PS3 exclusive!
I mean WTF? lets be honest here, 360 has the better online community, and after the month long PS3 network downtime, they still want to make this game exclusive with Sony?
I was seriously thinking of picking up this game, but if its PS3 only, there is no chance regardless of how "amazing" the game is.
You can call their number and request targets.
At the rate these guys are going, they are going to be the catalyst for some major changes in law around the world. They've hit some pretty high profile targets that appeal to a wide variety of people. Just wait until the mainstream media (sic: Fox) has their usual "When Hackers Attack..." type of special and that will be the precursor.
The Escapist is also currently down, as is minecraft's multiplayer :(
They're targeting Slashdot readers. First the p0rn site and now this!
It has nothing to do with Sony. They set up a phone line that you can call to suggest DoS targets and EVE Online was targeted.
im afraid of opening the door to my loo, and finding lulzsec inside.
they seem to be a quite energetic group of hacktivists.
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Maybe they're just doing it for the lulz?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
If they were attacking CCP for association, then they may as well go after MS as well since they had been part of the plan for Dust's launch, but backed out near completion for "unkown" reasons. Seriously. Trolls be trollin mah games.
This needs to stop. I can't wait for long prison sentences for all of the people involved in this. It's like Anonymous tried to figure out how they could be even more evil, by exposing unsuspecting randoms to identity theft risk "because they can." It's no longer making a statement, it's the online equivalent of a gang of punks going around smashing in car windows and robbing old ladies of their social security when they leave the ATM.
Only one thing will come of all this, and honestly I'm damn near the point of embracing it instead of fighting it: severe restrictions on Internet freedom and intense monitoring and logging by ISPs and the Government. I want my game servers to be up, I want my credit card information not to be stolen, and if I look at pornography I want that fact to be between me and my hand and not posted to a web site. The Internet should be a place of freedom, but this isn't freedom, it's anarchy and if the choices are between a regulated Internet relatively free of this kind of malicious disruption of innocent bystanders or the "Wild West" over a fiber optic link, I'm just going to have to take the former.
Looking at all of their previous tweets, they're clearly just going after any requests with their sizable DoS "cannon". Anyone hoping for righteous motivation or justifiable attacks is going to be sorely disappointed.
Until /. redirects to the lulzsec Releases page.
...Since Goonfleet swarmed noob ships into Delve!
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What's that like, getting thrown out of your local community college for poor grades?
Anyone else think the name LulzSec implies that they play EveOnline? I mean, NullSec was the first thing I thought of when I saw their name. I don't know any other words that sound like that.
No, I actually don't waste my life playing a boring game filled with griefers. If I want a real hardcore game I'll find a UO shard.
of writing shitty code... for a shitty company... surrounded by shitty coworkers... who think I am just as shitty as they are (haha bitches you are wrong I am NOT as shitty!).... and getting in a shitty traffic jam....
I just want to go home, take a shit, wipe, and play a dumb space game (that eerily reminds me of Microsoft Excel in some ways) and unwind.
Is that so much to ask? But no, the cocks have to be themselves.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
It seems that what is being demonstrated is that computer systems are not secure. There is a large computer security theatre industry which is taking many millions of taxpayers' money out of economies all around the world by selling a comfortable illusion of security. It's time to put up or shut up. If we want to spend taxpayers money on security then we should be giving it to someone other than the current recipients, perhaps to people who actually understand security, such as those currently demonstrating its general lack. Or maybe we should just get over it and remember that email is a postcard and that the internet's main purpose is to spread information, not hide it.
Korma: Good
I think all of these recent hacker attacks are just visible fragments of a very angry hacker community. The boiling point was perhaps Sony's lawsuit against George Hotz, but this must have roots way back. I dare suggest it has something to do with the image hackers have received from the media and public over the years. They are "mysterious criminals", "terrorizing cyberspace" and "make sure you buy Norton AntiVirus 2003 for ultimate protection before evil hackers steal your credit cards" - all the while endorsing Windows as the platform to run it on...
Seriously? Are they paid by Micro$oft to do this? Asshats.
Where does the signature go?
These attacks by LulzSec, Anonymous, et. al. remind me of the old Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life". In that episode, a child with godlike mental powers causes untold misery when, without understanding, he compels the residents of a small Ohio town to conform to his whim. Likewise, these hacktivist groups wield previously-unknown power, and they use to capriciously destroy whatever offends their ego, whimsy, or underdeveloped sense of justice. In the process, they not only hurt innocent bystanders not only undermine the legitimacy of their cause, but actually encourage more stringent regulation of the Internet. Like a character from a Sophocles play, they hasten the outcome they would fight.
They are legion. They do not forgive. They do not forget. They do not plan. They do not show restraint. They do not not choose their battles. They do not help.
I beg u not to touch World of WarCraft!
LulzSec is destroying any benefit that groups like Anonymous might provide. I could get behind, or at least understand acts done in the name of social justice. Fighting despotic regimes, exposing fraud, supporting the little guys' struggle against the corporations, etc.. But a bunch of "me too" juveniles on a power trip indiscriminately attacking for the sake of amusement is dishonorable and destroying any support the public, even governments might have had for Anonymous type groups. No one in a position to take measures against these actors will bother making a distinctions, no one is going to wink and nod at the "good guys" now. Everyone, regardless of affiliation or motivation is going to be lumped into same bag and treated at public enemy #1. Worse, government are going to make rash decisions, put together poorly considered legislation that will adversely affect innocents.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
This DoS aside, and considering that this kind of things from lulzsec is ridiculous per se, I think that they are giving to the Average Joe somewhat of a good lesson.
I mean, if they keep targeting widespread services and brands (like sony), the unsavvy will understand that "the cloud", sony, facebook etc are not safe places to store your information and that internet is dangerous like Ciudad Juarez when a big drug deal goes wrong.
On the other hand I hope that stuff like this will keep pressure on big corps in increasing the security on ours informations (oohh, look! flying pigs out of the window!).
By the way keep in mind that the real dangerous people are not lulzsec. They are telling everyone what they are doing (at least something).
The dangerous people are the ones that you don't know nothing about. The ones that steal your personal informations from big corp's site and use that info for their interests and you don't know!
How many entities do these guys have to hack until people start to realize that they don't have a goal? They're hacking what they feel like hacking when they feel like hacking it. They hack companies they like, they hack companies they don't like, and they hack government servers. They're in it for the lulz (like they say) and nothing more. That's why they take requests, go "oh, that sounds fun" and then hack the shit out of something.
They are not hacktivists. They don't care about "good" and "evil". They just want to have fun. And they are.
Waiting to see what legislative side-effects Lulzsec's actions are going to have in the long term. I suspect the ending won't be happy, and I'm not talking about Lulzsec (because frankly who cares about them), but the wider internet. Meaning, will they be declared "a new kind of cyber-terrorists" and will we get new laws to regulate the internet? Really, internet regulation seems to be a US government goal of itself these days, and this is just how the US government rolls these days.
Tinfoil hat on, I don't buy that these guys are Anonymous rejects. I suspect they are the US's "cyberwar" unit who were created for no real reason and had nothing to do, so perhaps they decided to make something up to keep their funding... or, adding an extra tinfoil antenna, the orders came from higher up, for internet regulation purposes like I said above.
Fuck this shit.
These guys need a little KGB treatment like the kidnappers of Russians got in Lebanon in the 1980's. Find a few bodies with their genitals in theirs months the things will calm down.
Conservative, mod down for violating
Clearly lulzsec has some V:TES players in their midst. CCP killed it, the bastards.
Yeah, so they are being paid. It could not be more obvious. Look at their list of targets, now look at who they haven't hit. This is blatant corporate sabotage/espionage, the attacks are WAY too targeted. Furthermore when they actually come across something of value, do they sell it to the spammers in Russia? Do they auction it off to various criminal bodies? No they totally don't, they prove they are being paid by posting it for free online. Lulzsec is prolly one of the first hacker groups to come up with a good business and marketing plan.
Do you have any idea who plays EVE? These guys didn't think it through when they considered this target. The EVE player base getting pissed at them is probably one of most dangerous player bases a game has out there. Measure the learning curve of EVE, then contrast it to other MMOs. EVE is global, on one server. They have nationality factions. Military types playing it. People who work IT. LulzSec will be lolToAsT I suspect very soon.
Take the Red Pill.
Me, I just really hate yellow vans.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
http://killboard.atlas-dot.net/?a=home
http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/02/unadulterated-scuttlebutt-atlasdot-enters-the-emergency-room/
Some RMTer named Shmak Datash got himself and his comrades banned, shell of a corp left over is raging.
I beg u not to touch World of WarCraft!
Please be more specific: which realm is it you don't want to be touched?
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I find it fitting since they're in it for the "LuLz" as was the Joker
No sig for you!!
Better to do a dateline like fake interview with hidden cameras and pull I'm Chris Hansen and you are on dateline NBC.
Earlier today I ran into an internal server error accessing Slashdot. I reloaded and all was good - a fluke for sure. But what about when LulzSec does come for Slashdot? Would the security here limit them to a dos? There is nothing here worth hacking; but the problem is they are doing it for Lulz.
I'll never be part of Anonymous or lulzec or whatever but I like the fact that it highlight of amateurish and vulnerable all these very, very lame services and websites are run/were build.
How proud are the "admins" and "web developers" (lol?) of these websites now?
Shame on them. They suck. They know jack sh!t about security. They're amateurs and they're getting pwned by a collective of script kiddies.
I've got *zero* empathy for the lamers running such vulnerable servers.
Bring down more websites. Bring them all down (say what? The Amazon infrastructure resisted and everyone can host fat files for a bargain on the Amazon infrastructure? Maybe there's something to learn here).
Then more security conscious people will step up and offer more secure websites.
A site that can be taken down by a bunch of script kiddies deserves to go down.
Amateur, get your part-of-the-problem-insecure-websites out of our Internet lawn.
Since CCP Games is the owner of White Wolf Publishing (makers of RPGs like Vampire), a number of White Wolf's sites have gone down as well.
Main site: http://www.white-wolf.com/
Open development/info site for the 20th anniversary of Vampire: http://www.vampirethemasquerade.com/
Site for the annual World of Darkness fan convention: http://www.thegrandmasquerade.com/
Soylens viridis homines es
You're not the only one. This is so cringe-worthy it's sad.
how is babby formed?
I know a guy who's dog did that once...
About time Americans started kicking ass in something.
It just proves that we are all gods.
Say you have a starving child in africa. If you give him food and shelter, he lives. If not, he dies.
With so much power at our hands, how can we be anything less than gods?
It requires little more than the ability to use a computer to be able to ddos a target to oblivion. There is pretty much no protection against attacks like this because they simply flood your uplink and most carriers don't care enough to filter the attack and instead simply null route the target.
No, more like being thrown out of the comic book store for being too nerdy.
LulzNet
Way to let the goddamned cat out of the fucking bag.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
More like being denied sleeping under the bridge because you smell
This is blinging
so when do they get to it? Because that will make for true LULZ.
About 6 weeks ago Eve New 24 ran a big exposure about Russian Blackhats making 100 thousand dollars a month by engaging in Real Money Trading in Eve. Eve News 24 was DDOSed of the net for a month and when it finally re-appeared a couple of weeks ago that story had been removed.
CCP recently started a major cull of Bots & RMT account in Eve and has been banning account left right and center for the last month.
The largest Russian Alliance in Eve, the Russian Drone Federation is well known for botting, and responded to their lost bot acounts by conducted a huge offensive in the game to take over the most lucrative region of the game, They spent around $100-150k worth of the in game currency to win that war, and shattered the previously most powerful alliance in the game.
Over the week-end CCP announced a nerf that would make that lucrative region nearly worthless, and that war spend a huge waste and is quickly struck down by a DDOS attack.
It is not just a bunch of script kiddies, it is most likely the Russian Blackhats that downed Eve News 24 that are behind this.
I thought the concept for Dust 514 was fantastic. I thought nothing would prevent me from purchasing and enjoying it, this article has not only proved that wrong but ruined my day :(
I also thought (early 2000s)nothing would stop me from purchasing Starcraft 2 if it were ever released. I was proven wrong on that as well...
Is that the sun?...
Thanks Lulz. I forgot what it looked like.
It was a good speech from "Good Will Hunting".
Did you type it out yourself, or just cut and paste ?
I think CCP did it.
CCP's feeling really bad that Duke Nukem Forever is out now so their "Walking in Stations" patch that they've been talking about for 7 years is now the biggest vaporware in games?
...but a good deal of the crowd here supported Anon when they were DDoSing companies that are, in the /. consensus, evil. So many people supported working outside the bounds of the law to punish these companies, and then blamed the companies themselves. Now, a similar group of clowns have taken down EVE Online, Escapist Magazine, and Minecraft. We've made our bed, and now we're being forced to lie down in it.
How long before their website is wiped by a DDoS ?
Voice recognition software.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Looks like the servers just came back online, but are configured to not accept connections.
You just don't get it. The original, from 4chan, Anonymous are a bunch of trolls and always have been. The only time anything approaching morality entered the mass consciousness of Anon was during Project Chanology, and if anyone hurts cats. Long before Anonymous was in the news they were happily trolling Nazis, furries, pedos, twelve year old girls, quadriplegics, gay kids, Christians, Muslims, Atheists etc.
The only rule is "we do it for the lulz".
The moral hacktivist Anonymous of Project Chanology era was entirely a creation of a handful of individuals who did a very good job of media manipulation. The vast majority of Anons were just participating because it was funny to annoy the Scientologists.
4chan is not your personal army, but if you offer them an interesting enough target they will participate until bored. If your target isn't interesting they are just as likely to track down your docs and harass you instead of the target.
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Dear luzers,
Here is a script for making soap on a rope.
Prison Soap is serious business.
That's got the largest group of wankers on who could attack back.
Very bad target. Don't do it. Leave the EVE universe alone to the whackos who know and love it, so their world won't bleed into ours.
or in other words, I'll be waiting to see what fallout hits the news. This could be interesting....
If it is cause the Sony affiliation thing, then guess there's the first sign that it should be on XBOX. Sony network has always sucked and they don't have anywhere near the number of players. I do know that Microsoft is wierd about doing joint ventures though so maybe that has something to do with it as well. I was exited for DUST 514 until I heard it was going to be on PS3.
Remember...some cheating bastard staff at CCP Games both referred and played Eve Online for a LONG time
Took such advantage of their positions as both staff referees and skewed results so badly one can reasonably suggest the game was irreparably broken by them.
Is there really a difference in loss if I take away your internet ships or your golf clubs?
Why do people ridicule an online only hobby and not other ones? There is no difference in the end. Most hobbies are diversions, if they make you money they become jobs and lose the status of entertainment that they were.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
A quote from the troll gmhowell says it all:
"I do whatever amuses me at the moment. Sometimes that is trolling. As far as AC? I only do that to avoid undoing moderations." - by gmhowell (26755) on Wednesday April 20, @12:49AM (#35877174) Homepage
Your own words prove to us that you're online trash gmhowell, you scumbag troll.
This IS why nobody here takes you seriously, or pays you any heed: You're a troll!
The above not enough? Well, here's more from you:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907528&cid=34543612
And here also:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2087330&cid=35846218
("3 strikes, & you're out" - And, there's NO DENYING you are a troll, gmhowell. (Especially when you admitted it there in the links above, literally, in your own words!))
Have these folks attacked UoP too? Their system has been all messed up this week, though they are claiming it is hardware related. I need to get back to class!
VASIMR to Mars!
One doesn't have to be a part of LulzSec to enjoy it. I enjoy it a lot and I have no connection to them.
They're taking away the pretentiousness of big companies and all the bullshit coming out of those.
They're taking away the credibilities of vast hordes of "security experts" and the woodpecker coding those peddle.
They're taking away the potency of retarded governments like the US and the "cyberwarfare" specter those jerk off to.
Now they're taking away your precious oh so precious toys so that perhaps you and others may start to pay some attention to the world you fucking live in.
LulzSec might just be doing it for the lulz, LulzSec might be nothing but an up to date version of the Batman Joker, but they're still heroes, if nothing else then by accident :D
I hate lulzsec for this. PS3 is superior to all other consoles