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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.
"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...
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... 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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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Choose your quotes a bit more carefully. Smith lost.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Anonymous is now Pseudonymous