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How ISIS Finally Hacked the Arkansas Library Association (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader shares this story from earlier in the week:
"ISIS hacking crews aren't the most talented hackers you'll find," reports Softpedia, noting that the terrorist group had finally succeeded in leaking the addresses and phone numbers of of over 800 employees of Arkansas high school and college libraries. "The Arkansas State Police is not working on the case," reports Newsweek, "and is leaving the follow-up to the Arkansas Library Association." In addition, "It appears that the FBI does not believe the threat from ISIS's cyber-hacks and lone-wolf directives is serious enough to occupy its resources on each individual." The ISIS hacking crew's previous targets have included a church's website in Michigan, a Japanese dance instructor, and an SEO optimization site which they'd apparently mistaken for Google.
One small-town library director told Newsweek that he personally found their library hack "vaguely amusing".
One small-town library director told Newsweek that he personally found their library hack "vaguely amusing".
Oooh, a library! Boy, you guys must be really tough, if you hacked the web site of a library!
My biggest fear right now is some massive and misguided response to the Florida shooting. ("We've got to strike back! Let's bomb somebody...") I actually really appreciate this story, just for the fact that it underscores how weak ISIS really is, and that alot of what they're doing is just a lot of bullshit bluster, in the desperate hope they can inspire someone else to do their dirty work for them.
Why does it say finally?
Doesn't finally mean something like they've been trying for a long time, everyone knows about it, and it just happened?
If that's the case, why wouldn't you post earlier updates that they were trying to hack a tiny library in Arkansas?
Anywhere else, it'd would've been called the teethbrush.
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ISIS is outside the country, clearly the job ofor the Creeps In Action... or so they got called in "Greatest American Hero".
They are attacking libraries now? How deep can their evil go...
They have their war machine, we have ours. ... wait.
They have their remote control death robots, we have
They are watching Slasshdot 24/7. They are having real problems with the honesty in comments here lately about the CIA-EU-Google-Twitter-Facebook-Microsoft surveillance monstrosity.
As other commenters said already, fuck softpedia hacker stories in general.
Did they get to a database of library users and the books they checked out? Seems like a serious breach to me if it was used to recruit or target. Not investigating this is asinine.
Wait until the find out the 72 virgins are little boys like Mohammed liked! (Yes, I'm a hater - fuck the ragheads...)
Why would anyone want to hack the Arkansas library association?
Feigning incompetence could be the master plan. Perhaps these zealots hurling threats and achieving little are merely a distraction while the real threat hides in plain sight.
We can only hope they don't discover phone books.
When I see the low-quality gifs those hackers use when they deface the websites of random dance studios and libraries, it reminds me of the game C&C Generals, where the Americans and Chinese have tanks and fighter jets while the GLA (islamic warriors) have pick-up trucks and suicide vests.
With all the lone wolves and oil money they have access to, why can't they be bothered to make better images? Nobody's asking them to use Bootstrap and make responsive death threats, but they could at least spend a few minutes with the eraser in MS-Paint to improve the edges of their poorly-cropped cliparts.
It's already annoying when your website is pwned because the Wordpress setup of your $3/month webhost hasn't been patched for years, it just adds insult to the injury when the hackers replace your content with something that looks like it was design in HoTMetaL Pro and uploaded via WS_FTP to a free AngelFire account in 1996.
lucm, indeed.
They could have found the names and addresses of most of the whole city in the white pages of the phone book.
Is an Israeli creation. It was designed for staging false-flag attacks and blaming Muslims.
This is crap. ISIL, or whomever, "hacks" a site and discloses information on 800 americans - not worthy of an investigation. But if an American security researcher did it they would do hard time...