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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."
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.
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...
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.
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.
This is LulzNet, an Anonymous offshoot. They are apparently just barely more organised, plus you have to actually be invited to join. With Anonymous you just have to turn up and not bring any identification.
LulzSec, rather. My mistake. The rest stands.
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.
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.
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?
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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.
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What's that like, getting thrown out of your local community college for poor grades?
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.
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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.
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Seriously? Are they paid by Micro$oft to do this? Asshats.
Where does the signature go?
Also, LulzSec ate my dog :-(
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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.
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.
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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.
Perhaps, but almost certainly these are simply foolish youths with poor impulse control and a lack of sound judgement. They are the "me too" effect coming off of Anonymous victories and publicity. They view things as but merely another video game and do not recognize the consequences of their actions.
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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.
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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.
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Some RMTer named Shmak Datash got himself and his comrades banned, shell of a corp left over is raging.
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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.
IIRC the name comes from Lulz + Security.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
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/
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You're not the only one. This is so cringe-worthy it's sad.
how is babby formed?
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.
If you think the hacker community is angry, you ought to hear others are saying about the hacker --- "going for the Lutz " is going to make things a lot worse before they get better.
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.
What's the point? Between the random server errors and the layout breaking due to someone screwing up the CSS and/or Javascript, Slashdot's own admins screw up the site to the point of being unusable far more often and better than any DDoS attack could.
LulzNet
Way to let the goddamned cat out of the fucking bag.
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More like being denied sleeping under the bridge because you smell
This is blinging
It was a good speech from "Good Will Hunting".
Did you type it out yourself, or just cut and paste ?
Looks like the servers just came back online, but are configured to not accept connections.
Escapist? I wonder how they pissed in LulzSec's cheerios? 8:5 it was something Yahtzee said. :)
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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No idea. Their reports on LulzSec haven't seemed any more hostile than anyone else's.
You'd think they'd find a kindred spirit in him. He's a one-man Escapist DDoS, for crying out loud.
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....
Maybe they could just take down idle.slashdot. That'd be great.
According to their Twitter, they were taking requests for DDoS, and targets included Minecraft, Escapist, EVE, and League of Legends.
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.
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!
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