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LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard

Posted by samzenpus on from the poking-the-bear dept.

Revotron writes "Anonymous hacker group LulzSec has begun to harness the power of the crowd in their latest griefing attempts. After a day of numerous DDoS attacks on a handful of famous MMOs, LulzSec's phone lines lit up with an estimated 20 calls per second. Using a fairly simple phone redirect, they sent all of their incoming calls to various offices, among them the FBI office in Detroit, Blizzard Customer Support, online retailer Magnets.com, and most recently, the corporate offices of HBGary." Update: It looks like they also brought down the CIA website tonight, but it is up now.

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  1. False flag by mykos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.

    1. Re:False flag by Restil · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It makes perfect sense. They're children, looking for attention. And they're getting tons of it. I wouldn't go so far as to say news outlets should stop reporting on it, as that gets into censorship territory, and it IS newsworthy to a point, and yet if they knew that the only ones paying any attention to them were law enforcement, and the only reason they hadn't gotten caught yet is because they're waiting to collect enough evidence to ensure the sentences last multiple decades... maybe it would stop all on its own.

      As for being out of reach, NOBODY is out of reach. Even if a country is unlikely to allow extradition, consider the fact that if some small country was causing an abnormal amount of grief for the rest of the world, surrounding allies might consider cutting off all internet access to prevent it. Just something to consider.

      -Restil

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  2. Re:Balls of steel by enderjsv · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doesn't take much courage to throw a rock into a window when you're wearing a ski mask and there's no one around.

  3. Re:Wankers by gclef · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Justice? I don't think they were ever about justice. Their name says it all: they're in it for the lulz.

  4. Wait a minute... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Anonymous hacker group"...with phone lines? Does not compute.

  5. Re:Wankers by bonch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdot circa 1999: "Free Kevin Mitnick!"
    Slashdot circa 2011: "These damn hackers are interfering with my WoW time."

  6. Re:And in other news by Dinghy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would you prefer another BitCoin story?

  7. Possible? by Jibekn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we use mod points to try and get an article off the first page? please? LulzSec stuff should never hit front page on principle.

  8. Great, I can see where this is going... by cjb658 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Lawmakers today announced new legislation that will take away more of our civil liberties, in response to recent attacks by the groups LulzSec and Anonymous."

    1. Re:Great, I can see where this is going... by atgaaa · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know where you live, but in the United States, we believe rights are inherent to all human beings. Rights are not "ganted".

  9. Whats the point...? by twebb72 · · Score: 5, Funny

    FBI... ok, so you're an anarchist
    WoW... ok, so you're anti-capitalist
    Magnets.com... uhh, so you don't like your shitty kid's art messing up your fridge...?

  10. Re:first post by cavreader · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And exactly what purpose is that? Launching indiscriminate DDOS attacks are child's play since almost everyone is vulnerable to this type of attack. The only purpose they are serving is to give the government more reasons to start trying to take control of content and access. These guys are nothing when compared against those responsible for Stuxnet. Now that required some intelligence and also served a good purpose.