And everyone are not good on to protect their systems. Bye
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) < [email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to make a couple of consideration about Lulzsec, without > special reason, just because it's crossing to my mind. > > a) They are NOT carrying on technically complex attack > > Just web hacking and sql injection over a wide set of vulnerable website. > Nothing so complex i would say, no particularly sofisticated attack has > been demonstrated or shown. Web hackers with some penetration testing > knowledge and new kiddies learning by web hacking. > >From web hacking they get access to user data and often users use the > same passwords on other systems (email, twitter, facebook, amazon, etc). > That's the overall complexity of hacking attempt i've read about. > > b) They are GOOD at making propaganda > They leverage web 2.0 and social media to create attention, anxiety > about their next releases increasing expectation and increasing media > penetration. > That's being good at making propaganda leveraging communication tools in > a clever way. > They are also in a here where the 'filtering', such as asking with a > prosecutor mandate to close a twitter account, is highly unpopular and > investigator tend to keep open the target's social networks accounts for > intelligence purposes. They got 200k followers! > > c) They are GOOD at making crowd sourcing and community building > > They leverage the crowd to recruit new wannabe hackers and even simple > smart powerusers to play with released username and passwords. > Like anonymous they want people to do stuff under their umbrella. > They created #lulzsecschool where wannabe and script kiddie can learn > simple web hacking on real targets. > > > Are they just IRC warriors in the web 2.0 social media era, where social > media exploitation provide a great set of side-effect? > > If they're IRC warriors within some time they will just disappear. > > Just think, the leaders before or later will start finding the games > boring, will get a girlfriend, will start going out with friends rather > than being twitter/chat addicted. > > However now i need to make breakfast > > -naif > > p.s. i know it's a reduced overview of the phoenomena but that's not a > full analysis, but it's just an idea crossing my mind > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- http://www.michelpereira.com.br http://twitter.com/michelpereira
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