LulzSec Quits... UPDATE: Apparently they've been outed

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Number1

Number1

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QueBert said:
only 6 of them and they still managed to reek that much h4v0k? Awesome sauce, I bet they're planning something hella uber as we speak. I can't wait to see what it is.
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Ya me too, I hope it involves hacking your paypal account, your bank accounts, online banking, credit cards, your porn site subscriptions etc etc.

Now that would be lulz worthy.
 
Imp

Imp

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ProfJohn said:
I would say they are running and hiding.

Looks like the guy in London may have been a member after all and the rest are scared of going to jail.
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If the guy in London, the recluse who lived in mom's basement and lived off his computer, was only a "junior"/unimportant member, I'm curious to see what the "genuine" members look/live like.
 
Dulanic

Dulanic

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Ohhhh we can hack shit and pretend we really matter.... However, truly...

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gaidensensei

gaidensensei

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Either die early and be seen as a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. :)
 
QueBert

QueBert

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Number1 said:
Ya me too, I hope it involves hacking your paypal account, your bank accounts, online banking, credit cards, your porn site subscriptions etc etc.

Now that would be lulz worthy.
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Well I don't have any of those, they can hack my Myspace which I haven't used in like 4 years, oh and I have a tagged.com. I don't bank online anymore since my new bank has a worthless online site. And I stopped using Paypal when I stopped using Ebay, and I definitely don't pay for any web sites. They can hack every account I have online and I wouldn't lose 2 seconds of sleep.
 
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Bignate603

Bignate603

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lxskllr said:
That was a nice sign off. I wish them all the best :^)
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QueBert said:
only 6 of them and they still managed to reek that much h4v0k? Awesome sauce, I bet they're planning something hella uber as we speak. I can't wait to see what it is.
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Yeah... It's all fun and games while they're screwing "the man", but if they screwed you over you'd be screaming bloody murder.

QueBert said:
Well I don't have any of those, they can hack my Myspace which I haven't used in like 4 years, oh and I have a tagged.com. I don't bank online anymore since my new bank has a worthless online site. And I stopped using Paypal when I stopped using Ebay, and I definitely don't pay for any web sites. They can hack every account I have online and I wouldn't lose 2 seconds of sleep.
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So you don't have a credit card with online access? A bank account with online access? An amazon account? Are you a teenager that lives in your mom's basement?
 
QueBert

QueBert

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Bignate603 said:
So you don't have a credit card with online access? A bank account with online access? An amazon account? Are you a teenager that lives in your mom's basement?
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No, I don't need any of those things, I do have an amazon account but it's not linked to any credit card or anything. They're more than welcome to hack into it and do what they wish, though I don't think there's much of anything they could do.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Bignate603 said:
Yeah... It's all fun and games while they're screwing "the man", but if they screwed you over you'd be screaming bloody murder.
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I'm pissed all the time, and I've been screwed harder by people who aren't supposed to be screwing. Anything they could possibly do is absolutely nothing in comparison. As it is, I'm just enjoying the show :^)
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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QueBert said:
only 6 of them and they still managed to reek that much h4v0k? Awesome sauce, I bet they're planning something hella uber as we speak. I can't wait to see what it is.
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Most of world's biggest hacks were by only 1 or 2 people.

The main problem with growing a 'group' is you always have the guy that can't keep his mouth shut or his tracks covered that compromises everyone.
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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Outing LulzSec is commendable, but "The A-Team" needs to work on writing skills:
To understand who/what lulzsec/gn0sis are/is you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the *chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. This internet subculture is pretty much the dregs of the internet. It's a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincable. The problem with this idealogy, is it's on the internet. The internet by definition is not anonymous. Computers have to have attribution. If you trace something back far enough you can find its origins. So let's give a brief event timeline on how these groups got together:

1. Anonymous rises up from 4chan against CoS [Church of Scientology].
2. Anonymous starts DDoSing stuff.
3. Various lower level hacking groups get involved.
4. Anonymous stagnates for a while.
5. Uprisings in the world Attract Anonymous.
6. ProjectPM Looser Barrett Brown becomes mouth piece of Anon.
7. Anonymous shifts focus toward "Worldy" Affairs.
8. Aaron Barr desides he's tired of his job and targets Anon.
9. gn0sis (Uncommon) comes out of no where and releases the Gawker data.
10. gn0sis teams up with anon hackers with all the OP<INSERT SOMETHING HERE> crap.
11. gn0sis (nigg, eekdacat, uncommon, kayla, lauralie) and sabu (from OP Anon shit) hack HBGary.
12. This is where Topiary comes in. They all form lulzsec to be "hacktivists".
13. Lulzsec (now a mix of gn0sis and opanon people) hack SONY and other stuff.

The problem with Lulzsec/gn0sis's "Hacktivist" mantra is that they lack the skills to keep it going. As such after SONY they couldn't get into anything. So they switched their focus to just releasing random crap that didn't mean anything. Then they started running out of things they could hack. So they put out requests for people to join them. That got them a few hits, and now they've switched their gears again to be "ANTI-SEC". Whether or not this was an attempt at bring other groups out of the shadows (el8, h0no, zf0, etc), you can only speculate. But as of this writing: 6/24/2011 Sabu and Topiary are the only two people updating the twitter and releasing shit. Kayla is MIA. The gn0sis kids are gone in hiding somewhere.

From what we've seen these lulzsec/gn0sis kids aren't really that good at hacking. They troll the internet and search for sqlinjection vulnerabilities as well as Remote File Include/Local File Include bugs. Once found they try to download databases or pull down usernames and passwords. Their releases have nothing to do with their goals or their lulz. It's purely based on whatever they find with their "google hacking" queries and then release it.

What's funny to us is that these kids are all "Anti-Sec" yet by releasing their hacks they are forcing these companies to have to hire security professionals which keeps the Security Industry that they are trying to expose and shut down, in business. I guess they will realise that later in life when they get out of skid school.

So we've been tracking and infiltrating these kids since the gawker hack. We have the D0x (as they call it) on everyone except Sabu and Kayla. First we'll go with the kid who did the gawker hack: Uncommon.
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TheVrolok

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I'm not sure the degree of ownage can get any higher. My hat is off to the A-Team for this.
 
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