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8GB of Data Stolen From Italian Cybercrime Unit
Orome1 writes "Evidence servers of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) have been breached and some of their contents published by a group of hackers calling themselves 'Legion of Anonymous Doom,' who apparently got on board the AntiSec campaign. The group has made clear that its sitting on around eight GB of stolen data and that it plans to release it all."
Well... The Italians do have a lot of experience with 'protecting' critical infrastructure. It'd be a pity if it caught fire, after all...
8GB of Data Stolen sounds like a USB flash drive was stolen
Hey, maybe it's the kids' way of saying they're in search of a job. If I were the italians, I'd sit down with them and see what they can do for the (Italian|American|NATO... ) govt - as they can obviously do quite a bit and clearly more than their employed, university educated cybersecurity "specialists". 2c/
Was it actually stolen, as in it no longer exists on CNAIPIC's computers, or was it simply copied?
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strange that manifestos and data dumps from pastebin have become normal news http://pastebin.com/r21cExeP
It's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Taking possession of the data and then threatening to publish it? Or what? It smells like Mafia-ish blackmail or "protection", but what's the payout?
Seriously: if they aren't pushing for some kind of concession on the part of the data owners, the best thing they could have done was just publish the information FIRST, then STFU. Or take credit for it afterward, if their egos simply couldn't stand the pressure. But announce it FIRST, and threaten to publish it LATER?
Definitely, somebody has been watching too many mob movies.
Is this a case for SuperWikiLeaks?
This corrupted organization gathered all the evidence from the seized property of suspected computer professional entertainers and utilized it over many years to conduct illegal operations with foreign intelligence agencies and oligarchy to facilitate their lust for power and money, they never used obtained evidence to really support ongoing investigations.
Also, it's nice to see that CNAIPIC subscribes to the "big useless video wall" school of command center design. (there are also diagrams of their network architecture in that album)
Governments are going to have to get used to operating under a bright light as these hacks and leaks keep happening.
There's just so much sensitive information, accessible to huge numbers of people, and scattered across so many poorly secured systems.
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In our time, the only ones not informed about their governments' doings are the citizens. this means, us. all the supposed enemies have capabilities to acquire information that is supposedly 'secret'. only, we, 'the people' dont.
its high time we started to learn what is being done with our taxes.
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Pre-release announcements are *getting old*. Please save it for when you have something that's going to be really earthshaking. The Pope rape tapes. Oswald's gunsight cam. The Illuminati's member list. Proof that not only does God exist, but he's being detained in Gitmo.
Y'know, shit that could start a war.
For anything else, please just post the torrent already, okay?
Who cares about governments? Corporations write the fkn laws.
Uhm, you know I actually read that link... it
1. Doesn't say anything about installing the software on "every PC", just every PC for that person accused of a crime.
2. Was withdrawn, and replaced with a command not to use computers until the trial is complete.
It would hardly help against anonymous people, since you wouldn't know which computers to install it on beforehand.
I mean why not just call it the "anti police" movement, or the "anti government" movement.
Who exactly benefits from an anti-sec movement? Hackers don't generally benefit from it. Users don't generally benefit from it. Who benefits from it?
If you are a hacker and a teenager, someday you'll be working in the security industry. So basically you'll be killing your job prospects if you support such a movement and you'll be making it impossible for hackers in the future to ever go legit. This is like drug dealers creating a movement to keep drugs illegal, so that their drug deals can never be regulated. It seems to not make any sense at all from the perspective of the hacker.
It makes no sense for a user to ever support this movement because what does the user gain by having their passwords cracked and shared on some russian forum? This is no better for users than Facebook sharing their private information with other corporations.
The only group that can benefit from the anti-sec movement are the high up government overlords who will decide that since there is a deliberate anti-sec movement, they must in return start a pro-sec movement. It creates an even sharper divide in the hacker community which empowers the elite government types who don't know a damn thing about computers. It's divide and rule all over again, by dividing the hacker community into black and white, and then dividing the blackhats in Anonymous into various movements some which seem to make no sense, it only creates a sort of boogyman which lawmakers can capitalize on with...
"See? We need to do something about these cyber terrorists. They are terrorists, they have a political movement now."
So now cyber crime is turned into cyber terrorism and more resources are poured into surveillance. So what is the first big move they have done to catch these anti sec types? Trojan software on every PC. FBI malware to monitor every computer for illegal activity. And how long before they use this sort of monitoring to go after copyright infringers and other low hanging fruit?
You're right, my mistake.
But this is still a move I expect the FBI to make if they haven't already.
It's Italy, what can you expect? A country that had a prime minister - Andreotti - who turned out to be a mobster? A country where the current prime minister owns all TV stations?
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...I wonder if there's a Hall of Anonymous Justice.
Power without accountability is a terrible thing. Police for instance has power, so they must be accountable. But voters also have great power... but how are they held accountable? How are the voters for Berlusconi held to account for their actions?
That is why democracy is flawed. In a dictatorship you only need one responsible person. In a democracy you need millions.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The exact scope of use is unclear; but both "Magic Lantern" and "CIPAV" would arguably qualify, in terms of FBI-employed, endpoint-installed, surveillance software.
On the network side, there is a whole different set of alphabet codenames and alphabet soup. ECHELON, CALEA, Carnivore, a number of former Information Awareness Office projects(IAO itself managed to creep congress out, and was defunded; but some of its activities survive under other names), virtually anything you can buy from Narus, whatever the NSA is up to in room 641A, DCSNet, IDW, etc, etc.
A wealth of choices, really...
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that these hacker/cracker groups always seem to be very forthcoming with claims for their achievements, claiming the material is to be released "soon", but never seem to actually come up with the goods. I don't get why they seem to believe we should all be impressed by their jerking off in public...
Actually, if you're running a system monitoring app, having a big screen in your monitoring/operations center does have an important purpose.
Most monitoring systems use some form of color-coded status, so green=good, red=bad. Now if your one of the important systems that monitoring depends on goes down (say your mail server or SMS gateway, whatever), you're not going to be getting those important alerts when stuff breaks. However, if you've still got the "big wall of status" up, then there's still a decent chance of noticing of a bunch of important stuff goes from green to red.
That assumes that you don't have a bunch of false alerts that are always red in the first place. Having the ability to acknowledge a known issue and shift it out of the alerts pool is also important,