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FBI Cyber Division Adds Syrian Electronic Army To Wanted List
coolnumbr12 writes "The U.S. government has had enough of the Syrian Electronic Army's hacks of Western media and government outlets. A week after the SEA shut down the New York Times, the FBI Cyber Division unit has officially added the pro-Assad hacker collective to its wanted list. The FBI issued an advisory that included information about the SEA, its capabilities, and some of its more heinous attacks. The advisory also warns networks to be on the lookout for attacks, and that anyone found to be aiding the SEA will be seen as terrorists actively aiding attacks against the U.S. websites."
Hacking websites = terrorism now ?
See the danger of such a slippery slope ? The government can't see it. They're dead serious. Hacking websites = terrorism. It boggles the mind.
Frankly, what the U.S. government does on a daily basis is far more terrifying than anything some script kiddies hijacking DNS entries could do.
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He's a very naughty boy!
I'm sure defacing websites may be some sort of crime, but terrorism? Terrorism seems to have suffered from mission creep. Defacing websites may be highly annoying, but probably ought to qualify as a semi-legitimate form of protest.
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Hacking websites = terrorism now ?
See the danger of such a slippery slope ? The government can't see it. They're dead serious. Hacking websites = terrorism. It boggles the mind.
Frankly, what the U.S. government does on a daily basis is far more terrifying than anything some script kiddies hijacking DNS entries could do.
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This week it's hacking a website.
Next week it's: "You broke a website's TOS! Terrorist! Off to Gitmo with you!"
Isn't it a kind of perfect storm? The rise of the Internet and 9/11 making terrorists of everyone. Without the Internet going through growing pains and the general public woefully sad of security would we have the mess we have now? 9/11 would have been just another horrible terrorist act but it happened while the Internet was going through it's growing pains and law enforcement agencies and all the three lettered organizations were given ever broader powers to try to tame a new world wide venue for every aspect, the good, the bad and the ugly, of much of humanity. Is this how what would otherwise be manageable growing pains turn into wars and dark periods of history. Just contingency gone very bad.
This. A thousand times this. If the bar for 'cyrberterrorist' is set here, then any kind of 'hacktivism' is going to be terrorism. However, if they were applying this standard both ways, the NSA has been engaged in widespread acts of war against the entire world. However, I support endorsing a peace treaty that will surrender the NSA, it's contractors, and it's co-conspirators to punishment by other nations.
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If you click that link in the summary, it takes you to an article with this headline:
FBI Adds Syrian Electronic Army To Wanted List; Supporters Of Hacker Collective Will Be Regarded As Terrorists
Of course, nothing in the actual advisory says anything about anyone being a terrorist...
Way to fall victim to sensationalist yellow journalism.
I commented on this elsewhere, but I'll do it again because people are getting whipped up about it.
The IB Times is entirely responsible for using the label terrorism. The FBI did not call it terrorism. Here's a direct link to the FBI advisory requesting information about website defacement. Consistent with the FBI's domestic focus.
http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SEA.pdf
To be honest, that is incredibly bad journalism. No one is sourced for the word terrorism; it is an invention of this Ryan Neal fellow.
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You were critically hit for no damage. The bruise will look nice, and maybe the scars will make good party talk.
OK, now read the actual security advisory and try to find a mention of terrorism, instead of looking to the sensationalized newspaper and Slashdot headlines.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
from TFA
The advisory also warns networks to be on the lookout for attacks, and that anyone found to be aiding the SEA will be seen as terrorists actively aiding attacks against the U.S. websites.
i'm no friend of the SEA (or the sea) but if you read the actually advisory then you likely noticed that neither "terrorism" or "terrorist" is anywhere in the advisory.
since he's written a flat out lie under the guise of fact, i think people should inform him of the error of his ways.
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Yes, that's fucking right. The fucking summary fucking written by the fucking OP, which fucking uses HIS fucking words, not the fucking FBI's
the FBI should add itself to its wanted list.
And above it all: resisting terrorist government activities (like: US govt financing and arming al-quaeda terrorsits in Syria and waging iillegal war against Syria in order to aid and bring al-quaeda to power) is now considered terrorism. Strong double think abilities are required to grasp conduct of US government officials.
The life expectancy of an unpatched Windows XP installation exposed to the Internet is now under one minute.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Then have not the terrorists won?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Is there somebody the FBI doesn't want?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Great link GZ. One question, the wording "CNO efforts against" is it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network_operations? Under US mil as "Information Warfare" How the US gov see/use the term?
Would it fall in the "terrorists, nation-states, and criminal groups" as a new terrorist definition or still under criminal law?
Thanks
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
sorry but propaganda/psyops doesnt qualify as military CNO. check your own wikipedia article.
Types of Military CNO
According to Joint Pub 3-13, CNO consists of computer network attack (CNA), computer network defense (CND) and computer network exploitation (CNE).[1]
Computer Network Attack (CNA): Includes actions taken via computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy the information within computers and computer networks and/or the computers/networks themselves.
Computer Network Defense (CND): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, analyze, detect and respond to network attacks, intrusions, disruptions or other unauthorized actions that would compromise or cripple defense information systems and networks. Joint Pub 6.0 further outlines Computer Network Defense as an aspect of NetOps:
Computer Network Exploitation (CNE): Includes enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target or enemy information systems or networks.
u mad bro?
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Why would anyone be mad?....
So what is the line "may also be observed participating in CNO efforts against US Web sites and networks" about then in a US legal setting?
Or is it just a way of saying groups of computers on a network?
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Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I think the particular usage of CNO here is mostly descriptive rather than a legal category, as the term itself is broad. Therefore I don't think you can infer a legal classification into crime, terrorism, act of war, etc. from that usage.
Quite frankly it makes less and less sense to take part in discussions as voice of reason all too often cannot be heard because of the noise of hysterical and mostly not thought trough posts? I admit I am not much better but maybe some constraint were in place. It does not really help if anything is announced as a slippery slope towards a fascists state etc. The summary is also not so good his time and could have been stopped because it is just incorrect (in using the word terrorist etc) and that makes a difference.
Time to run security scans and make sure our security measures are buttoned up. Its just like a hard drive failure is a reminder to check your backups - its time to break out the security tools and double-check firewall settings. Its gone from script kiddies all the way to military organizations intent on screwing us over. These idiots have decided to wage a war on our computers. WTF
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How can people tell if it's the SEA, NSA, CIA, or FBI that is misbehaving? Press releases?
I think the particular usage of CNO here is mostly descriptive rather than a legal category, as the term itself is broad. Therefore I don't think you can infer a legal classification into crime, terrorism, act of war, etc. from that usage.
According to a reply to my tweet, that's exactly the statement he used to infer terrorism.
Miles Mawyer @milesmawyer 33m
@IBTimes @ryanWneal I'm irritated and disappointed by your use of the "T" word. It's not a generic term for "Bad Guys". FBI didn't use it..
Ryan W. Neal @ryanWneal 29m
@milesmawyer Good point, but that's what they mean with "CNO efforts against US Web sites and networks."
Miles Mawyer @milesmawyer 3m
@ryanWneal That just means you're equated hacking with terrorism. That's still a broad and inappropriate generalization.
Direct from the fucking summary
When it comes to getting to the truth, there's little worse than quoting a Slashdot summary.