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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
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?
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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.
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.
Since when did Anonymous == Borg ???
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
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.
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.
Elvis is the KING
rewriting history since 2109
You're right, history proves you can't shut down the flow of information.
Doesn't mean people aren't trying, people with excessive amounts of money and technology, and no laws to keep them constrained.
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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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"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.
They don't have to worry about hundreds or thousands of mini-Snowden/Mannings popping up; it only takes one or two to cause a huge shitstorm, so they have to be very worried about that. However, there's not likely to be than many Snowden/Mannings either, because the risk is so insanely high. Manning was caught and is now in a military prison for a very long time, and Snowden evaded capture by the skin of his teeth, and is now stuck in crappy Russia trying to make a new life (after living in warm and beautiful Hawaii, I hope he likes snow and cold). Given the high risk of capture and imprisonment, there aren't likely to be very many people willing to try this in the future, however as I pointed out, it only takes one to cause an international incident.
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.
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.
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Someone tore down a poster hung up by the CIA and if caught faces 25 years in federal pound you in the ass prison!
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Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
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
Considering how it treats homosexuals, I'd say it's a pretty crappy place.
The weather certainly isn't anything to get excited about either.
everybody knows that 2 doesnt exist, its just a boogyman thats used to scare children.
"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?
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
"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