Lizard Squad Targets Tor

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:35AM from the reasons-"torget"-should-be-a-word dept.

mrspoonsi tips news that Lizard Squad, the hacker group who knocked Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network offline on Christmas morning, has now turned its attention to Tor. After tweeting that they were targeting a Tor-related zero-day flaw, the group is now in control of 3,000 exit nodes — almost half of them. "If one group is controlling the majority of the nodes, it could be able to eavesdrop on a substantial number of vulnerable users. Which means Lizard Squad could gain the power to track Tor users if it infiltrates enough of the network."

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Clip art squad by greg1104 · 2014-12-26 12:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Each time this group makes the news, the sales of lizard stock art skyrockets. I'm starting to think the whole thing is a PR stunt funded by Getty Images.
Re:Eavesdropping... by bill_mcgonigle · 2014-12-26 13:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm willing to bet the NSA has prior art on this.
You think the Lizard Squad is teenagers? The conspiracy theorists have been warning us that the NSA is run by the NWO and Lizard People for decades.

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