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Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians
hypnosec writes "TeamGhostShell, a team linked with the infamous group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions, including major banking institutions and accounts of politicians, and has posted those details online. The dumps, comprised of millions of accounts, have been let loose on the web by the hacking collective. The motivation behind the hack, the group claims, is to protest against banks, politicians and the hackers who have been captured by law enforcement agencies."
Release a hack that shows ANY personal info should be a felony. There needs to be a Security Board where exploits can be Sent too instead of releasing to the public where its only useful to hackers wanttobe hackers and script kiddies. Right now there is nothing that can be done except blackmail the one with the holes now that they have a place to take them they have zero reason to release to the public. If they do its fines jail time the first offence. Same for the company with the exploit ,its got to be fixed in a time lee manner no excuses they cant afford to do it right then they don't need to be making any software.
So there's mine wheres yours!!
Jack of all trades,master of none
Because Americans believe government regulation is bad and markets are good.
You have it half right. If you believe your government is is doing everything right 100% of the time your a fool. This is probably why most Americans think 90% of what Erourophats have to say is total nonsense and ignore it.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Some lazy assumptions in your analysis, but I will address your positing fabrication.
When I make test addresses, I tend to let randomness do more work and focus mostly on the corner cases for testing the parse.
I'm strongly leaning towards something a combination of your #2 and #3 possibilities, some crappy sites, some other stuff, and they seem to have more, but not enough time to figure out what to do with it all.
I'm not going to explain why because I'd rather have some more time to get ready for the current internet to crater.
(Condemn Intel for insinuating their under-baked IP into all the pipes. Condemn Apple, for joining Intel and Microsoft. More condemnation on Microsoft for taking too long to go under, but how do you make secure systems with Intel's junk in everything, and pushing the features so hard that no one dares focus on building properly securable information systems.)
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.
Oh ya then how did the hackers find it the security hole? bank did just say hay here,s our security hole. In fact they hacked it, that's against the law already because they did STEAL the passwords. And no i don't expect someone who tells you hay your wallet fell out to be prosecuted. That's just a plain stupid argument by a person who doesn't have a clue or doesn't want a clue. Ya just want to complain.
Jack of all trades,master of none
You have it half right. If you believe your government is is doing everything right 100% of the time your a fool. This is probably why most Americans think 90% of what Erourophats have to say is total nonsense and ignore it.
And the leap from "governments not doing everything right 100% of the time" to "thus, governments do everything wrong 100% of the time" is why the rest of the world laugh at Americans as ignorant and prejudiced nincompoops.
A government agency could be doing something where its own interests trump yours.
A corporation is guaranteed to have its own interests trump yours.
I'd rather take the government, because experience shows that most of the time, they work for the public. If they sometimes don't, that's stil a heck of a lot better than the track record of corporations.