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Lulzsec Member Raynaldo Rivera Pleads Guilty To Sony Pictures Breach

Posted by timothy on from the ok-at-first-I-thought-I-was-innocent dept.

hypnosec writes "Raynaldo Rivera has pleaded guilty at the US District Court for the Central District of California to hacking the Sony Pictures Entertainment website in May 2011. The 20-year-old in his plea agreement revealed that he joined Lulzsec in May of last year in a bid to help the hacking collective carry out cyberattacks on governments and businesses. Rivera, who surrendered to the FBI on August 28 this year, admitted that he was the one who launched an SQL injection attack against sonypictures.com that enabled him to extract confidential information from the website's database."

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  1. typo in summary by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Informative

    lof ast year

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  2. SONY was breached a bunch of times by gelfling · · Score: 3, Informative

    They clearly learned nothing and refused to learn anything or do anything. Lemme guess, SONY is run by copywrite attorneys and Hollywood 'content' types.

    1. Re:SONY was breached a bunch of times by gweihir · · Score: 1, Informative

      No ad hominem here. I am saying MBAs are the problem because of the way they are educated. The arrogance and inflated sense of self-worth is actually part of many MBA programs as the training providers want to inflate the worth of their programs. Ad hominem would be something like "MBAs have poor personal hygiene, hence they are the problem".

      IT security is top priority, because if you build on sand, you never create anything of longer-term worth.

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      Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  3. These lulzsec guys are pathetic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If they hadn't gloated so much and took the proper precautions, they wouldn't have been found. Don't tell anyone, not even anyone on your team, who you are.