*ren* PSN Down, Customer Info Compromised

[temesgen]

It appears that Bioware and the CIA have been hacked as well.

http://kotaku.com/5812498/bioware-hacked-18000-accounts-compromised

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio.../06/15/AGGNphWH_story.html?wprss=rss_congress

 

[-tkf-]

EU took steps last week to hit hackers harder. Including making "bots" illegal so they can procecute the developers of botnets. Minimum punishment for "general" hacking, 2 years.

Spreading of passwords and the gathering of "illegal" data is also a crime.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

The lulz canon was aimed at Minecraft (servers went down) and EVE Online (they took the servers down themselves) last night. Just pure destruction instead of hacking.

The worst part of this is that the hardliners may end up asking for laws that requires the ISP´s to both provide and save information that makes it much easier to catch hackers like that. I don´t think they know how much they are putting the "freedom" of the internet under fire.

I would guess they were unable to hack into either system and thus resorted to just doing as much ancilliary damage as possible.

I'm waiting to see if Steam gets hacked, that's the only online gaming source that I care about personally. Oh and potentially Blizzard as they are still too stubborn to allow their games to be sold over Steam.

Regards,
SB

 

[-tkf-]

SEGA Games gone from the list of "safe" games:

http://exophase.com/23517/sega-hacked-personal-data-compromised/

 

[goonergaz]

maybe it would be easier to list what's left of the 'safe' sites

 

[BoardBonobo]

Here's a complete list of safe sites:

 

[Rotmm]

Here's a complete list of safe sites:

You forgot the following:

 

[Shifty Geezer]

You forgot the following:

That was hacked last night.

 

[-tkf-]

Here is a list of the companies which services you shouldn´t use and support since they were hacked.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/s...US&single=true&gid=0&range=A1:J47&output=html

Cnet will have plenty to add to that Sheet during this year.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Wow, roughly half of that spreadsheet is Sony corp. I hadn't realized that the hacking of Sony was so extensive. And customer and company data is still being mined and released 2 and a half months after Anonymous hacked in.

Regards,
SB

 

[BoardBonobo]

I think we can kiss any dreams of the internet staying an open and, practically, un-policed state goodbye. The current spate of attacks is just stupid. Most driven by childish notions of what justice is, so in seeking to undermine the effectiveness of a handful of people they are destroying the freedoms of millions. Way to go boyz.

As an aside I see that Ryan Cleary has just been arrested by Essex Police.

Ryan Cleary, 19, was detained as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into LulzSec, a group which has claimed responsibility for hacking attempts on the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, the US Senate and the CIA.

Source

 

[patsu]

Here is a list of the companies which services you shouldn´t use and support since they were hacked.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/s...US&single=true&gid=0&range=A1:J47&output=html

Cnet will have plenty to add to that Sheet during this year.

How do I unsubscribe or ban CIA ?

Getting data leaked means the organizations should step up their security effort, and regulations may need better enforcement tools. All big organizations have gotten hacked and defrauded since the net was invented.

 

[dobwal]

I think we can kiss any dreams of the internet staying an open and, practically, un-policed state goodbye. The current spate of attacks is just stupid. Most driven by childish notions of what justice is, so in seeking to undermine the effectiveness of a handful of people they are destroying the freedoms of millions. Way to go boyz.

As an aside I see that Ryan Cleary has just been arrested by Essex Police.

Source

I don't believe that will happen. I believe what most people are overlooking, is that these levels of attacks in such a concentrated period of time will overall be beneficial to the internet and us in general.

Internet security and tracking down perpetrators will become more robust in response. Everyone now has to look for cracks in their system and repair as they find them. Those that don't won't survive. Those that do will make it harder and in return hackers will have to be better to compensate.

You can never get rid of people hacking systems, but you can do alot security wise to shrink the pool of those that can cause havok. One by increasing the level of knowledge, resources and saavy one must have in order to a competent hacker and two by decreasing the chance that hacking goes unpunished.

 

[deathindustrial]

I don't believe that will happen. I believe what most people are overlooking, is that these levels of attacks in such a concentrated period of time will overall be beneficial to the Internet and us in general.

That's one way to look at it. The other is that it is more likely to lead to further censorship and control of public networks. In the States especially there is already alarmingly tight integration between commercial interests and the police / government and these attacks provide great cover for pushing through all sorts of ugly laws in the name of catching hackers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/18/fed_domain_seizure_slammed/
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-anti-piracy-lobbying-targets-fbi-110622/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100630/14391410029.shtml

For giggles, mix in some of the current McCarthyism at play:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...over-fbi-probe/2011/06/09/AGPRskTH_story.html

Cheers

 

[-tkf-]

I don't believe that will happen. I believe what most people are overlooking, is that these levels of attacks in such a concentrated period of time will overall be beneficial to the internet and us in general.

It is already happening, while the laws may have a valid purpose i am sure we will see them used in anything but valid ways. For example in EU where the new "hacker" laws are being implemented.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/0...ools_should_be_criminal_act_say_eu_ministers/

Does that make Angry IP Scanner illegal? How about tools that can be used both ways?

How about documentation on a Security flaw in a OS would that be an "article in electronic form containing data" ?

I am sure the big guns like Sony is gonna use these laws to the max and do whatever they can with them to spread fear among potential hackers.

 

[BoardBonobo]

I don't believe that will happen. I believe what most people are overlooking, is that these levels of attacks in such a concentrated period of time will overall be beneficial to the internet and us in general.

I think that's a quite naive viewpoint. All the work I have done over the past six months has been about denying people access to resources. It's not about shoring up defences in order to make the internet a safer place, it's about designing systems that point fingers at fundamental flaws in access to software, hardware, and the internet itself. So these flaws can be legally, and globally, recognised. Sadly most of these flaws are what allows us the freedoms we have currently. They were always going to be curtailed at some point in the future but all that has happened now is that the process has been greatly sped up.

Some people want the ability to cut off an ISP's access to the net if a hacker is found to have originated from within it's IP pool. No network access for anyone until the hacker(s) is found. Won't take long for joe public to get vigilante and hand them over to the law once their facebook access is stopped.

 

[dobwal]

I think that's a quite naive viewpoint. All the work I have done over the past six months has been about denying people access to resources. It's not about shoring up defences in order to make the internet a safer place, it's about designing systems that point fingers at fundamental flaws in access to software, hardware, and the internet itself. So these flaws can be legally, and globally, recognised. Sadly most of these flaws are what allows us the freedoms we have currently. They were always going to be curtailed at some point in the future but all that has happened now is that the process has been greatly sped up.

Some people want the ability to cut off an ISP's access to the net if a hacker is found to have originated from within it's IP pool. No network access for anyone until the hacker(s) is found. Won't take long for joe public to get vigilante and hand them over to the law once their facebook access is stopped.

Maybe because I didn't take the OP's original assertions literally, my point seems off. But the internet hasn't been totally open or unpoliced in a long time. The way people legitimately and freely use the internet now isn't going to be all that different than the way we will legitimately and freely use it in near term (next decade). And if the internet becomes draconian in nature it won't be due to hacking but rather corporate interest when it comes to things like net neutrality and copyright infringement in an effort to drive profits and people's aloof involvement in politics and ignorance of gov't actions.

Plus, the most efficient way to reduce hacking is equivalent to having everyone buy better locks to deter theft versus controlling access and tracking the movement of every individual in order to do the same thing, which may be more effective but is vastly more expensive.

 

[patsu]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230937/survey_90_of_companies_say_theyve_been_hacked.html

In a new survey ( download .pdf ) of 583 U.S companies conducted by Ponemon Research on behalf of Juniper Networks, 90% of the respondents said their companies' computers were breached at least once by hackers over the past 12 months.

Nearly 60% reported two or more breaches over the past year. More than 50% said they had little confidence of being able to stave off further attacks over the next 12 months.

...

 

[BoardBonobo]

Maybe because I didn't take the OP's original assertions literally, my point seems off. But the internet hasn't been totally open or unpoliced in a long time. The way people legitimately and freely use the internet now isn't going to be all that different than the way we will legitimately and freely use it in near term (next decade). And if the internet becomes draconian in nature it won't be due to hacking but rather corporate interest when it comes to things like net neutrality and copyright infringement in an effort to drive profits and people's aloof involvement in politics and ignorance of gov't actions.

Plus, the most efficient way to reduce hacking is equivalent to having everyone buy better locks to deter theft versus controlling access and tracking the movement of every individual in order to do the same thing, which may be more effective but is vastly more expensive.

I agree totally that it will be the pursuit of profit that will start to chain the internet down. But the way in which we use it will change quicker than in just a decade, and it's not so much about how people manipulate the internet it's more about how the internet is used manipulate people.

The point you make about controlling access and tracking individuals is quite pertinent but it incurs very little expense for business. You simply get the public to foot the bill by purchasing the technology that allows them to be tracked in the first place. And the reality is that a large percentage of people fundamentally don't understand the tech they hold in their hands and how easily that can be subverted to work against them.

The crack down on the web was always going to happen, it's just that the laws required to police it are, by their very nature, draconian. The public would never stand for something like that. There would be a major back lash even if they don't fully understand what it they are getting upset about. What the recent, and very public, hacks have done is raise public awareness and create a degree of uncertainty about security on the web. It's a perfect cover for big business to put the pressure on the politicians to get those laws ratified.

Whatever they are seeking to prove with these hacks, be it the stupidity of the public to trust big business, the true nature of shareholders vs the public, whatever it is. It's all going to go horribly wrong.

 

[patsu]

Sony Issues Notice About Continued Japanese PSN Delay:
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/06/24/sony_psn_notice/

Gamers in Japan aren't so lucky, as the Japanese PlayStation Store continues to remain offline. And it looks like it's going to stay that way for the time being.

Sony broke about two weeks of silence regarding the Japanese PlayStation Network and Qriocity services today, but it did not have much to say. A brief notice apologized for the long wait but said that more time is needed to make adjustments with the various related parties. The notice did not provide an estimate on when full service will be restored.

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If the restoration date comes after July 12, the Sonic Generations demo is going to disappear, so Sonic fans may want to arrange a weekend trip to Korea or Hong Kong.

Sony's notice did not specify who the "related parties" are, but past reports from Nikkei and other sources suggested that Sony may be attempting to comply with requests from the Japanese government and credit card companies.

Probably meant PS Store above. I saw some Japanese gamers on PS Home and other games. They should be able to play online now.