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Ghost Rider86
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.06.14 23:45:00 -
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Lulz Security, the hacking group apparently motivated by nothing more than their desire to laugh at the mayhem they cause, has had a busy day in an event they called Titanic Takeover Tuesday. Taking a break from their dumps of user data and server break-ins, today saw the group perform a bunch of distributed denial of service attacks against a range of targets.
First upłand still only intermittently available at the time of writingłwas gaming magazine The Escapist, with no apparent reason for the attack. LulzSec boasted that taking down the site required just 0.4 percent of its DDoS capacity.
Next in line were the login servers for the game EVE Online. The effect of this attack was to bring down the EVE Online website at the same time, though LulzSec insists that this was not the actual target. In response to the DDoS, CCP Games, makers of EVE, have taken all their systems offline, for fear that they might be hacked. The company has also issued a statement to assure customers that their personal information remains secure.
The third targetłand the only one for which the group has offered a rationale beyond "lulz"łis an IT security company named Finfisher. Their site was taken down, briefly, because "apparently they sell monitoring software to the government or some **** like that."
Gamers were once more in the crosshairs with the fourth target; more login servers, this time for Minecraft. Just as with EVE Online, going after the login servers also took out the game's website.
The pattern was repeated for the fifth target; login servers for the game League of Legends were knocked offline, a move which also brought down the game's website.
The result of all this? Lot of enraged gamers complaining about the downtime, and hence, many lulz for Lulz Security. Going after gaming targets hasn't made the group universally popular; posters on 4chan's /b/ forum, who might normally be sympathetic to lulz-motivated shenanigans, attempted to hunt LulzSec down. LulzSec dismissed the "/b/tards" as "damn furries," saying that they were the cream of the /b/ crop from 2005, distancing themselves from the /b/tards of today. |
Lando Storm
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:10:00 -
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Edited by: Lando Storm on 15/06/2011 00:13:29 ATLAS said they paid Lulzsec but who knows Look |
Ghost Rider86
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:22:00 -
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Originally by: Lando Storm Edited by: Lando Storm on 15/06/2011 00:13:29 ATLAS said they paid Lulzsec but who knows Look
Who's Shmak Datash anyway? |
Lando Storm
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:26:00 -
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thats what i said until i googled it
Its seems he got his 6 accounts banned for RMT
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Ghost Rider86
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:33:00 -
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I really hate it when grudges over a game affect rl. First it was the DRF/NC situation and evenews was ddos'd, now atlas vs CCP? It's getting ridiculous.. |
Henry Haphorn
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:34:00 -
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It's not just the gaming industry that was targeted. Just as the login server was shut down, I was watching CNN. CNN recently reported that the servers that manage the Senate.gov website was completely taken over by the same LulzSec (or Lulz Boat as they are sometimes called) group.
Prior to that, the same group hacked PBS network and posted a fake article about Tupac being alive in New Zealand (he's known to be dead actually)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/05/30/pbs.hackers/index.html?iref=allsearch
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Ghost Rider86
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:40:00 -
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Yeah, I found out about them just yesterday. Never imagined that they would attack minecraft, LoL and eve's servers in one day though. |
Jude Lloyd
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Posted - 2011.06.15 00:52:00 -
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HMMMM, BUT I WANT TO POP SOME IDIOTS IN FACTION SHIPS. NOW I HAVE TO PLAY HALO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. ACTUALLY, IM GOING TO WATCH "SUPER HIGH ME".
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The Jackhammer
Minmatar Interstellar Brotherhood of Gravediggers The 0rphanage
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Posted - 2011.06.15 02:01:00 -
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Edited by: The Jackhammer on 15/06/2011 02:01:24
Who cares ... hey mom look .. I shut down a game
Mmmmm,
The Jackhammer
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Velocity Prime
Misfit Toys Clockwork Pineapple
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Posted - 2011.06.15 02:09:00 -
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Ugh. I had to go outside. It was horrible.
Smuggling, booster sales, recruitment. Visit my blog. |
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Enik3
Crimson Empire. Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2011.06.15 02:27:00 -
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Originally by: Velocity Prime Ugh. I had to go outside. It was horrible.
This. I got bit by a mosquito
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