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UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com)

Posted by timothy on from the upping-the-average-age dept.

An anonymous reader writes: British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk, in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. We mentioned the first of the three arrests on Monday; a second arrest took place Thursday, as related by Ars Technica, of a 16-year-old from west London. The latest arrest is of a 20-year-old from Staffordshire.

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  1. It's My Life by wbr1 · · Score: 1

    Belongs here https://youtu.be/5ixRWvrkUHo

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  2. Hmmmm by khasim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And that is why I find it difficult to believe all the claims of "Chinese hackers" who are "attacking" sites.

    Teenagers can crack a telecom. It isn't because the kids are that good. It's because so many organizations are that bad at basic security.

    1. Re:Hmmmm by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Maybe... We don't know what these people's involvement was. They could just be useful idiots from 8chan co-opted into the DDOS attack. There are tools like LOIC that people post to 8chan so others can join a DDOS attack in a single click. The software is pre-configured with the target, but of course half the time when they think they are hammering some evil feminist they are actually helping someone blackmail a commercial site.

      They could also just be people whose computers were infected with a remote access tool, that was then used to do the hack. They could be people running Tor exit nodes. They could be people will poor wifi security. The police have fallen for that one more than once.

      But yeah, in any case it's evidence that TalkTalk had exceptionally shitty security. SQL injection was old hat a decade ago.

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    2. Re:Hmmmm by gnasher719 · · Score: 1

      I suggest that TalkTalk's security was so bad that several people independently performed attacks against it via SQL injections. It's like a jewellery store finding the store empty in the morning, after not closing the door over night. There are probably multiple independent people who took away as much as they could carry.

    3. Re:Hmmmm by hucker75 · · Score: 1

      Talktalk are criminals themselves. They lie about their special offers. I used them for 1 week then cancelled.

  3. Re:the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The homicide rate per 100k in the US is 3.55, but only 0.05 in the UK so the fact is that we can't trust the people with guns. Can't trust the people with guns.

  4. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Guns themselves don't kill people. Guns don't possess motives to do so in and of themselves. People do. Unless a gun drops and fires say, by accident? Guns do not kill. Again: People do pulling the trigger aiming at another person. Get your shit straight. Learn to think critically instead of being a brainwashed little slave that's unable to think for themselves.

  5. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.

    So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.

  6. And I care why? by DivineKnight · · Score: 1

    At some point, someone will have to explain what TalkTalk is, how it being hacked is relevant to IT (why do we care?), etc.

    All I have is a website / service being hacked by some teenagers...News @ 11.

    1. Re:And I care why? by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Informative

      British Internet and mobile phone company.

      Quite a large one. Lots of customers. We'd really expect a company this size to be able to resist some teenage script kiddies. The nature of the breech means that a lot of customer details have been compromised.

    2. Re:And I care why? by jonbryce · · Score: 1

      They are one of the big four telecoms / internet companies in the UK. The others are BT, Sky and Virgin. I believe they are the second largest in the internet market, Sky is bigger because it also does satellite TV.

  7. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by easyTree · · Score: 1

    Lol. I'm willing to be locked up if the same happens to the USAnians too. We'll take one for the (world) team.

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  8. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by hucker75 · · Score: 1

    Funny, I've got plenty. I use them to cut up food. Most of them could allow me to kill you if I wanted to.

  9. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by nukenerd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Outlawing guns only keeps them from lawful people. Criminals still get them anyway.

    Guns are extremely rarely used in crime in the UK. Criminals know that if they appear anywhere with a gun, all the police over a very wide radius will descend on them like a ton of bricks; it isn't worth it.

    I would have no idea how to get a gun if I decided to commit a crime with one, and most criminals, who are petty criminals anyway, would have no idea either. Even if such a small criminal, a house burglar say, happened to know a serious criminal gang who could possible provide him with one, they would be extremely unlikely to provide it to him at any price, not wanting to be linked to him. Their attitude would be "WTF do you need a gun for, just to burgle a house?". Because if the police found anyone with a gun, they would get the provider's name out of him.

  10. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1

    You're no longer "great Britain"

    It's "Great Britain" and you're right, because as a whole, it's the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", commonly known as the "United Kingdom" or "Britain".

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  11. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by KGIII · · Score: 1

    No, I do my killing with a firearm. I do my skinning with a knife. I also don't do my butchering in the kitchen. In fact, like firearms, knives are fine tools that can be misused. I carry a Victorinox. It's never killed anything. It has opened packages, cut cable, cut rope, carved wood, gutted fishies, and many more things. It has never killed anything.

    I realize you're trolling or stupid but, well, somebody has to respond. I have a whole bunch of firearms that have never, not even when I wasn't looking, gone out and killed something. I have quite a few that will probably end up in prison for wanton paper slaughter, however. If you're paper, especially if you've a few circles on you, then you're quite likely in serious danger around those. If you're paper then you should probably hide or consider enacting laws for your own protection. They'll straight up murder the fuck right out of you and your family. They don't like paper, one bit.

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  12. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by easyTree · · Score: 1

    Eek; touched a nerve :#

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  13. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    You can use them to get food or as protection from others with guns.

    Hunting is a separate issue, and is associated with rich twats slaughtering wildlife for fun here in the UK, rather than someone killing their dinner.

    And you only need protection from others with guns in places where (most) others have guns.

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  14. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.

    So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.

    Very few people are capable of murdering someone with their bare hands.

    In increasing order of ease of killing, you have blunt instruments, knives, swords and guns. It is far easier to kill someone with a gun, not least because you can do it at a distance. And no, you can't walk around in public with a loaded crossbow in England either.

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  15. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by cwsumner · · Score: 1

    England is a conquered country, run by the invaders. It has been since 1066 AD. All of the society and political systems are built on that.

    England is now a "Gun Free Zone", and all of the shootings in the news have been in gun free zones!
    What we need to outlaw are Gun Free Zones.

  16. Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1

    Your nation's made itself a prime target for hostile invasion. You have a completely unarmed populace.

    So what you're saying is, my firearm's license doesn't exist and the weapons I have at home don't exist?

    Think your enemies don't think thus?

    The only 'enemies' I am particularly concerned about are certain nationalists that would have us secede from the union through the use of certain methods that guns can't help with.

    You get outta line, do you really think those 'rulers' won't come out with guns to take you out?

    Considering how soft touch enforcement is around here when it comes to using projectile weapons, I'm not really seeing a vicious problem you're implying. The only people I really see out of line in the UK tend to be murderers and such (arrested without needing to carry a projectile weapon too), not a guy driving away in a car.

    You're long past being "iron men in wooden ships" and more like tinfoil men in balsa wood toy boats.

    Wow, you have some wild imagination as to what people think. Most people (sadly) in the UK are thinking about what's in HEAT or the dailymail has to say for gossip, I doubt anyone is thinking this rubbish you're coming up with.

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