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Fun fact, @LilInternet, the person ostensibly behind both this and the Burger King job, has #SEAPUNK in their bio.
That we get to enjoy this two days in a row makes this a fun week indeed.
Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” or prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.A message posted to the hacked website of the U.S. Sentencing Commmission • Decrying the death by suicide of internet pioneer Aaron Swartz, whose family and friends have suggested was hounded towards suicide by an especially harsh prosecution being brought against him, for a large-scale downloading and alleged free releasing of academic articles (he faced a possible 35 years in prison, and 13 felony counts). Now, hacker group Anonymous has threatened vengeance over Swartz’s tragic death, having hacked the U.S. Sentencing Commission site and issuing a further threat that they’ve obtained information from secret government networks that they may release in retribution. The incident is being viewed as a “criminal investigation,” according to an FBI executive assistant director, Richard McFeely: “We are always concerned when someone illegally accesses another person’s or government agency’s network.” source
“1234” unsurprisingly leads the pack, followed closely by “1111”. Check the top 20 and make sure you’re not using any of them. And then yell at your bank for making you remember all sorts of random passwords but still using a 4-digit PIN.
We know one person who isn’t happy about this revelation.
Al-Jazeera has become the most recent high-profile hacking victim, after a group of pro-Assad Syrian hackers breached the site’s security on Tuesday. The hacker collective, known only as “al-Rashedon”, defaced the site’s front page in response to the organization’s “positions against the Syrian people and government.” Al-Jazeera was one of the first organizations to begin covering the events of the Syrian uprising, which have become increasingly sectarian in nature, and is based in the majority-Sunni nation of Qatar. (Photo via Mattthew Keys) source
I still can’t get into Gmail. My phone and iPads are down (but are restoring). Apple tells me that the remote wipe is likely irrecoverable without serious forensics. Because I’m a jerk who doesn’t back up data, I’ve lost at more than a year’s worth of photos, emails, documents, and more. And, really, who knows what else. It’s been a @*(!&% night. For now, at least, I’m back on Twitter @mathonan.Wired (and former Gizmodo) writer Mat Honan • Describing the hacking incident he went through last night, in which someone managed to 1) hack his Twitter account, 2) hack the Gizmodo Twitter account, 3) hack his Google accounts and 4) hack his iCloud account, which was then used to do a remote wipe on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook. And no, he didn’t have backups, which sucks, but who expects to have so many parts of their life hacked all at once? There were things he could’ve done to prevent the hacking — two-step authentication on his Google accounts would’ve helped, for example — but it wouldn’t have prevented his devices from getting wiped. Some commenters are expressing thoughts of schadenfreude towards Honan, but we hope he’s holding up OK, considering. Gizmodo’s got a post about what you can learn from Honan’s crappy night.
So, someone hacked the Marlins’ Facebook page — oh, and six other MLB pages. And the hacker apparently has a major sense of humor. Must read.
» But what don’t we know? Rupe’s going to testify: Murdoch, who has seen his considerable British political influence fall since the hacking scandal broke, now plans to return to the UK to testify on his political influence over the years. Last time he did this, Wendy Deng kicked some guy’s pie-throwing butt.
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» But it’s not all bad, they say: The Economic Development Administration, a part of the Commerce Department that helps economically-distressed communities, has been stuck working without internet access for roughly three months after a really bad virus forced their network offline. The virus was so strong that it endangered the entire Commerce Department’s intranet. How are the employees coping? Somewhat well — they’re making more phone calls. They’ve rediscovered the fax machine. They go to the post office. “It’s not necessarily something you look forward to in life,” said Philip Paradice Jr., who directs the Atlanta office. “But there’s a certain invigoration that’s come up. We’ve come up with workarounds.” It helps that employees at the Washington office don’t turn over much, meaning that many were around before e-mail existed. Still though … three months?
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Sky News, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire, admitted on Thursday it had hacked into emails on two occasions but said the actions had been editorially justified and were in the public interest.
Murdoch’s son James resigned as chairman of BSkyB on Tuesday to prevent a phone-hacking scandal at News Corp’s News of the World tabloid newspaper from harming BSkyB, a British pay-tv broadcaster of which News Corp owns 39 percent.
Sky News, BSkyB’S news channel, said that on one occasion it authorized a journalist to access the emails of people suspected of criminal activity in the so-called “canoe man” case of a man who faked his own death by paddling out to sea.
“We stand by these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest,” the head of Sky News, John Ryley, said in a statement.
Sky did not say what the second hacking episode was, but media reports said the said journalist accessed the email accounts of a suspected pedophile and his wife in an investigation that did not lead to any material being published or broadcast.
READ MORE: Sky News channel admits to email hacking
Of note in part because Sky News is seen as more “above the fray” compared to their newspaper cousins. The defending of the actions is significant.
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Hackers Discover Government Employees Watch Porn
A group of hackers calling themselves Th3 Consortium and claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous and LulzSec broke into yet DigitalPlaground.com, the third porn site it’s hacked in as many weeks, stealing 72,000 passwords and 40,000 credit card numbers. All three porn sites Th3 Consortium has targeted are owned by Luxembourg-based Manwin: Brazzers got hit in mid-February — 350,000 usernames and passwords were stolen — and then came a major hack at YouPorn — a million usernames and passwords were compromised. But the porn network does not seem to be the real target of the attack: the hackers seem most interested in embarrassing government employees who used their official email addresses (for some reason?) to register for a porn site. Foolish government employees beware.
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Hackers Discover Government Employees Watch Porn
A group of hackers calling themselves Th3 Consortium and claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous and LulzSec broke into yet DigitalPlaground.com, the third porn site it’s hacked in as many weeks, stealing 72,000 passwords and 40,000 credit card numbers. All three porn sites Th3 Consortium has targeted are owned by Luxembourg-based Manwin: Brazzers got hit in mid-February — 350,000 usernames and passwords were stolen — and then came a major hack at YouPorn — a million usernames and passwords were compromised. But the porn network does not seem to be the real target of the attack: the hackers seem most interested in embarrassing government employees who used their official email addresses (for some reason?) to register for a porn site. Foolish government employees beware.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]
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Uh ohhhhh hai! Sorry about the website, folks. We are working on it!
— Emerson College (@EmersonCollege) March 4, 2012
Uh ohhhhh hai! Appears there’s more evidence it’s that kind of night. The site’s back up, but Anthony De Rosa got a screenshot. EDIT: Now they’re claiming they didn’t get hacked, but had a server hiccup.
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