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FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters is reporting that the FBI has issued a warning to several U.S. Government agencies that the Anonymous collective has hacked their systems. Included in the list of compromised agencies are the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and potentially many more agencies. The avenue of attack: Adobe Cold Fusion."
I thought the only people left in Anonymous were FBI informants.
who watches the watchers. it iz t3h 31337 h4x0rz t34m.
i pity the fool
yes we already know he didn't blow up the king and the parliament :p
They're way more afraid of hundreds or thousands of mini-Snowden Mannings popping up. Thing is, if these guys can get in so easily, what about hostile foreign gov'ts like the Chinese and Russians? Seriously. They were probably already there. This could also be a false flag pre-emptive strike. So, how can we vote for no confidence in our own system?
Now double our budget so we can counter them. And yeah, pass some laws against these terrorists.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
And the party hasn't even begun yet,
you didn't really think that tapping 6+ billion peoples Internet would not have consequences ?
that Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability
2,0000 bank accounts....
Is that 2k or 20k?
TFA needs to be reviewed before going out.
I expect more from Reuters.
"An FBI Spokeswoman declined to elaborate"
I mean to say, what the hell happened? "Being hacked" isn't a real thing. You're missing stuff, or you see that stuff was accessed, or you found some new shit that shouldn't be there... Why aren't they telling us? Could it be because they left something wide open, and cannot legally admit to that?
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
If European with the inverted comma/decimal system it could even be a very precise 2 bank accounts...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
... we can't tell.
it could even be a very precise 2 bank accounts
he must mean 'for large values of 2'
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
We just learned from the press that targets and directions come from agency.
So, typical of government
- create a project
- fund it
- find a disposable hacker to perform the "attack"
- report success
- ask for more money and staff
The real threat is the people who have been compromised in these organizations.
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
Yeah... I do because I'm old enough to remember that fiasco.
Is it in existence today? No.
You talk about the internet being clamped down to approved hardward/software/etc/etc... History proves that you can't shut down the flow of information.
Every PROHIBITION has backlash... Hell, prohibition is actually increasing the number of "Manic Psychosis" incidences in our youth today. There are tons of other examples but you should already be aware of them.
Prohibition of internet access will never work. lol
Keep it Clean! :D
Maybe that was an attempt at binary?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Is there anything your software canâ(TM)t do?
Obligatory XKCD.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
The reason the healthcare system is broken is that private enterprise and the states completely broke it. Any problems that are in progress are due to obstruction by the Republican Party who are actively working to sabotage this bill and this President. Even before Obama took office they said they would oppose everything and anything he tried to do.
There are several large Federal agencies like the IRS and Medicare don't have problems with collecting personal data.
Did he? How many here know his name? And then, how many know who was King when it happened?
I betcha you could ask that question in London and you'd come up with more people knowing Guy Fawkes than James I (VI).
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Since when did Anonymous == Borg ???
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
All your base are belong to us!
Quid Pro Quo? Given the NSA's "hacking" of everyone's data, why should we be surprised that Anonymous is hacking the feds?
To quote the Bard - screw you assholes!
It's not beyond these people to lie to achieve what they want. Hopefully I didn't even need to mention that, but I did just to be sure we were on the up and up here. Reading the article, there is nothing I can see to verify that this was in fact the work of Anonymous. Some things don't line up with the normal activities. This article not only spreads FUD for internet censorship and control, but FUD about activism/hactivism.
From TFA, they first claim that anonymous used PDF exploits. Well, just about every botnet on the planet gets infected by some type of Trojan filled file. Anonymous is more well known for MITM attacks than trojaned files. Nothing convincing yet that it was anonymous.
Then they claim that anonymous stole 2,0000 bank accounts. That on a Rueters article should be a dead give away that this potentially propaganda. It didn't make it through normal editing.
The article does mention someone in the UK being indited on hacking into the US DOE, but then they lump everything else to that one person at anonymous. Maybe they have much more detail on proving that all of these hacks were anonymous and didn't show it. I'm not convinced by what was released here, and have not trusted these people to tell the truth for decades (amplified in the last few years).
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Its broken because its broken... it doesent need any help... but you do speak like a true libtard
Okay, let's zero out your expected take from SS and Medicare when you are too old to fund yourself. And while we're at it, it would be okay if Grandma moved in with you, right? Her meds only run a few thou a month, but that's a small price for you to pay to be freed of the Fed. Gov. Let's remove NiH, because you will never get cancer, contract a food born illness, or get nailed by the next pandemic. You'll let the mentally ill live with you, 'cause they'll need a place to stay. They usually need meds too.
Let's also turn the world over to the Chinese because in 20 years, we'll be entirely self-sufficient and won't need any open trading partners. And while we're at it, lets get rid of NTSA and the FAA, you won't die in an airline accident because the airlines cut corners. Let's abolish the SEC, Wall Street and the Banks have your best interests at heart.
And let's get rid of that awful FBI, if your father gets whacked, you won't need no stinking investigation as to whom did it. Come to think of it, we won't have to worry about young kids getting kidnapped because there will be no federal agency to track them down. They shouldn't have gotten their asses kidnapped in the first place. We also don't need the federal prison system, them guys can kip at your house right...be sure to keep your gun loaded and by your bedside, they tend to sleepwalk a bit.
And let's get rid of that awful FBI
Actually, the FBI is an awful, corrupt organization that has violated the rights of numerous people, but to a lesser extent than the likes of organizations such as the NSA.
Elvis is the KING
rewriting history since 2109
Paul (hotel barber): Okay, I don't want to know nothing. I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is: are you happy with your haircut?
No way, it's impossible that sociopathic power-hungry politicians, bankers, military men, and intelligence officers who treat human lives as disposable would stoop to such things. That would be unAmerican. And beside, CNN and MSBNC would tell us if it happened, right? "Controlled opposition"... laughable! Next you're going to tell me the FBI infiltrated Anonymous chat channels and encouraged young guys to hack into their own systems!
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the feds have become the criminals imho
"Stories like this" meaning flaws in Adobe products? I don't know the purpose of the attacked systems, so I can't say whether having the leaked data was appropriate, therefore extrapolation is not supported.
Any way you look at it, your conclusion is at bestmisplaced, which is why you are modded as troll.
I wonder how history would have turned out differently had Guy Fawkes succeeded with his plot.
All of your arguments are based on the false assumption that everything else stays the same when the size of government is reduced. It's shallow and wrong.
I'm only going to address the first one because I've got better things to do on a Saturday morning. You should be able to save for your own retirement and pay for most of your medical care directly. Currently, you can't do that because you're taxed to death, and the government has given monopoly control to a handful of healthcare giants. You therefore rely on these government program if you want to eat in your later years or get any medical attention. Most government programs are like this, as is government itself. It establishes a manufactured need for citizens to rely on it. It has grown out of control and as a result you are a slave to it.
The downfall of this government will not be accomplished by 2nd amendment nuts and their horded ammo, rather by kids clicking from their parents' basements. You go guys!
You keep posting that crap for every other article.
You're being sarcastic, right? You know tea party people think government is basically incompetent, incapable of say, launching a shopping web site, right? Conspiracy theorists, on the other hand, believe the government is secretly controlling everything, that they run everything. So pretty much opposite ideas of what government is. Here's a cheat sheet for you:
Believes government is incapable of setting up an insurance shopping web site: tea party
Believes government can hack your phone to spy on you with the battery removed: conspiracy theorist
Hand up anyone thats suprised US goverment IT systems got hacked once again...
Not well. Catholic persecution was bad enough in England.
Believes government is incapable of setting up an insurance shopping web site while supporting people who actively try to thwart the setting up of said website: tea party
There, fixed that for you.
Follow the money. If that won't convince you then I posit that anyone foolish enough to use Adobe Vectorware is at least uninformed, and incompetent, if not fully complicit in the security fail.
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
Currently, you can't do that because you're taxed to death,
The US has the lowest tax rate of all developed countries. So right there your argument is already wrong.
and the government has given monopoly control to a handful of healthcare giants.
I don't know where you get this from and it is really funny to see how hard you strive to pin a clear failure of the free market (healthcare is not a freely traded good) on your big government bugaboo.
Clearly you've reached a conclusion first (big government is always bad) and now you are forcing the facts into it.
I don't want big government but nor do I want small government. I want government of just the right size to provide (1) decent public education to all (equality of opportunity, not outcome), (2) decent public infrastructure, (3) enough defense that we can be secure in the world (but not so much that we can go in expeditions to Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction), (4) healthcare to all since a civilized country does not let sick or hungry people die and (5) enough police that I can go to the corner store without fear of being mugged.
If you look at the list above, government is too small for all of those except (3). Those are facts. The rest is ideology.
wtf? why the fuck was this software installed on systems or networks containing this type of information?
but they don't know who did it, hence it was anonymous... doh.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Okay, let's zero out your expected take from SS and Medicare when you are too old to fund yourself. And while we're at it, it would be okay if Grandma moved in with you, right? Her meds only run a few thou a month, but that's a small price for you to pay to be freed of the Fed. Gov. Let's remove NiH, because you will never get cancer, contract a food born illness, or get nailed by the next pandemic. You'll let the mentally ill live with you, 'cause they'll need a place to stay. They usually need meds too.
Let's also turn the world over to the Chinese because in 20 years, we'll be entirely self-sufficient and won't need any open trading partners. And while we're at it, lets get rid of NTSA and the FAA, you won't die in an airline accident because the airlines cut corners.
You're all good up to here.
Let's abolish the SEC, Wall Street and the Banks have your best interests at heart.
The SEC exists to legitimize financial fraud. When the banks steal billions of dollars, we can all blame the SEC for not doing its job, instead of blaming the people committing the fraud. They've done absolutely nothing to reign in banks, and don't intend to.
And let's get rid of that awful FBI, if your father gets whacked, you won't need no stinking investigation as to whom did it.
The much bigger threat is people dying because of bad diets, because of federal ag subsidies. Or people dying from the side effects of drugs they don't need because of a profit driven pharmaceutical industry. Or people dying in needless wars of agression. I'm much more concerned about the FBI causing deaths because they infiltrate and disrupt groups trying to advocate for reforms that would help people.
The FBI exists only to add a thin veneer of "we're here to protect you" that covers up a massive amount of corruption that harms us far more than helps us. They exist to ensure that entrenched power remains entrenched.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Someone tore down a poster hung up by the CIA and if caught faces 25 years in federal pound you in the ass prison!
FTFRandall
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
Never attribute to incompetence what can be attributed to malice.
Even "not knowing what they're doing" is something they've made sure of.
while supporting people who actively try to thwart the setting up of said website
If I may summarize what "actively try to thwart the setting up of said website" amounted to: several votes in the House of Representatives that had no effect whatsoever.
The failing rollout of Obamacare and the many lies associated with it are 100% owned and operated by the Democratic party.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
everybody knows that 2 doesnt exist, its just a boogyman thats used to scare children.
It is broken because half or more of the people who are supposed to be making it work are instead doing everything they can to prove it cant work, thus supporting their "government cant do anything right" motto.
"Mommy! the stole my marbles, can you buy me more?"
USSSSLiers on the loose.
Now what? Anonymous have MD weapons in their keyboards?
They are hacked by themself, nobody believes them but them.
Bahh, Bollocks!
Is this a modern take on The Jabberwocky?
-- Using the preview button since 2005
You should be able to ... pay for most of your medical care directly. Currently, you can't do that because you're taxed to death...
I dont know about you, but the reason I dont have $10,000 lying around to pay for the X-rays and Tylenol they gave me after I broke my wrist was because $7/hr still wouldnt be enough to pay for food and rent even if the government wasnt taking what I agree to give to pay for the things a society needs to exist by living in that society. I dont even want to think about how much of a bitch it would've been just getting to the hospital if it werent for those roads making it so damn easy.
Healthcare in the US was broken before Obamacare. Below average outcomes, massive numbers of uninsured and world's highest costs. Thank you states and private industry.
The fact is no country in the world has a working private healthcare system.
Republican low-grade idiots trying to prevent reform were a large part of the reason Obamacare doesn't go nearly far enough towards fixing it. And of course massive efforts trying to sabotage the limited reform are making it even worse.
Au contrair, mein freir. You had better go back and reread the news of the state of Massachusetts from GRoo-money days. Seems he put forward an old Nixon plan and the state bought it, and it worked there. That was all the fed house and senate would buy as a maximum coverage for those out of work. Then remember who is in charge of the departments, SES's, most of the liberal ones were canned by King George II as too liberal, and were replaced with GS subsidiaries. And those were not canned by the winner. So what are they again, liberals or ???.
Seriously, under W, national security was put aside. Now, we need to focus on this and make good with securing our systems.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Department of Energy was hacked via Cold Fusion. How fitting.
Anon reported back at the beginning of Operation Last Resort that they were already much more deeply entrenched in US government networks than anyone had found. This isn't a new revelation, it's an ongoing event.
Where genius and insanity become confused true wisdom is found
The NSA has been 'shooting' exploits at internet targets by using MITM at the backbone.
Stop playing the victim card, the whole world (except the US citizens inside the US) already knows the US is nothing more than front for international bankers to do their dirty work.
One particular trick involved identifying the LinkedIn or Slashdot account of an intended target. Then when the QUANTUM system observed individuals visiting LinkedIn or Slashdot, it would examine the HTML returned to identify the user before shooting an exploit at the victim. Any page that identifies the users over HTTP would work equally well, as long as the NSA is willing to write a parser to extract user information from the contents of the page.
Okay, let's zero out your expected take from SS and Medicare when you are too old to fund yourself.
Social Security and Medicare are fully funded by a 13% and nearly 4% tax, respectively, split 50/50 between a tax on employee income and a payroll tax. In the unfortunate event you're self-employed, these taxes are paid 100% by you. If you're going to zero out the take from Social Security and Medicare, make sure to add back in the 15% of income that everyone would now get to keep and save for themselves.
The US has the lowest tax rate of all developed countries. So right there your argument is already wrong.
Add up federal income tax, social security tax, medicare tax, state income tax, city income tax, payroll taxes, sales taxes, maybe even lodging/resort taxes and property taxes -- and you'll find it's not really that much lower than countries that manage to provide functional social services, post-secondary education, and universal health care.
I read this /. post, but I also just read this:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/this-is-how-the-internet-backbone-has-been-turned-into-a-weapon/
Who to believe? ? ?
I can't shake off a feeling that the law enforcement and friendly news sources are using "Anonymous" as a boogeyman. When I see "Anonymous collective has hacked their systems", I read "Their systems were hacked. FBI has no leads". The law enforcement has finally found a perfect line for every situation where they demonstrate incompetence, since "anonymous" turns into "Anonymous" so easily.
Anonymous should just announce a name change "We who were formerly Anonymous announce that we are officially changing out name to 'The Boogeyman', and are claiming credit for X, Y, Z that we have been accused of perpetrating" kinda thing.
Then all the news reports get corrected to "Security Company Q attacked by The Boogeyman".
Hilarity ensues...
libtard
You know that if you install it in the correct location, you can just use -ltard on the linkage line, rather than spelling it out like that, right?
A Justice department that claims it's getting hacked (to worrisome levels) by teenagers. A National Security Agency that spends hundreds of billions spying on the citizens it claims to be protecting while accomplishing nothing. A Defense Department whose specialty is fighting foreign wars badly, while shelling out trillions to contractors.
It's well past the time where an honest government, or a real democracy, would say "enough failure" throw in the towel, and start again from scratch.
it clearly stated cold fusion was the problem
and with all the 0days for that shit floating around im not surprised
And who protects you from your government?
The terrorists.
You and I just sit here and eat the free bread and watch the circuses.
You are right, god save America.
Nuke the bastards.
I suggest you check the voting history of the Affordable Care Act. There is a distinct lack of Republican votes.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
No, too many real English words, not enough slithy toves.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
How many of those only know it from V For Vendetta? I do mean the movie, most of these kids haven't read the (vastly superior) graphic novel.
Twas bryllyg.
They do it by themself, but anonymously.
One hand steals the other hand on the same fucked entity.
Krebs and Holden Security bloggers reported circulating copies of an Adobe Source Code archive. Implict is the archive contained Coldfusion source code. At the time they reported the archive encrypted and they were unable to break the encryption.
Fast forward, code surfaces from the archive unencrypted for sale on the internet.
Websites running Coldfusion 8 (an old version no longer supported or monitored for security fixes) is compromised on a number of websites. Re-developing and re-deploying websites developed for an older unmaintained code base is expensive, if possible at all and institutions with limited budgets rarely do it, even if prosecuted. Its easier to "notify" users.
Krebs and Holden also notice a credible exploit and report it to Adobe, who notes it is effective but not against current products-- however they release a patch for the vulnerability later Nov 12 against CF10.. report its relevant for CF10, CF9.. and that CF8 is no longer supported and that they believe CF8 has been compromised and is the attack vector for hackers currently.
Moral.. stop running CF8, destroy the old websites using CF8 and re-commission new websites with modern and security supported server software, stop using "notify next of kin" as a cost mitigation factor. And apply security patches for CF9 and CF10 immediately, the attack is being suggested as "Zero Day" and having been used for some time.
Once the "source code" for a website running on a Framework is "exposed" by the application server using read-only rights.
Then that specific website "becomes" exploitable, even if the application server is "patched" with a security patch.
In which case "destroying" the old website code makes sense, as it has been "mapped out" by hackers.
This procedure of "scorched Earth" re-development should be "written in the Constitution" and "mandated" by the power of Law!
Sometimes when you hack the planet, the planet hacks you!
If you're still using Coldfusion, you deserve to get hacked.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
Cold Fusion is one of the buggiest, most insecure of all the web code development platforms, in a world riddled with buggy, insecure web platforms.
...Steve
ban malpractice lawsuits like Hong Kong, and you don't need insurance.
Watching this whole meltdown is almost as entertaining as watching a bunch of warez kids fight it out with a bunch of pedos over control of a dump site.
Every example you've given has a real-world counter-example of where this extremism and remarkable faith in the absoluteness of the efficiency of these systems falls short. To put it very politely.
But you've conveniently omitted all that.
What I want to know is, why ?
People don't want to be told to shut the hell up, everything's fine, when it obviously isn't. And we don't need statist apologists constantly lying to us and pretending that everything's fine and that no other options can be implemented. All you've done here is prove that you have an agenda, and it's an ugly agenda that yields a very dystopic outcome.
libtard - A liberal retard. A liberal is progressive. Progressive are ahead of the curve, progress wise. Great oxymoron there. No, conservtard might make sense. But, then you're obviously too retarded to understand that.
"The US has the lowest tax rate of all developed countries."
Did you actually try to look up the numbers?
Did you actually try to look up the numbers?
Of course, it is the GOP sole characteristic to not look up facts. The rest of the political spectrum (from the middle all the way to the far left) may have many flaws, but ignoring facts and figures is not one of them.
Here are the figures for you, straight out of Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP