SECURITY - With "Operation AntiSec" They want to "fight corruption and censorship" and "protect privacy", even messing ...
From Los Angeles
Mysterious graffiti have appeared in recent days on the pier of Mission Beach , San Diego: a cartoon man with a black top hat, often accompanied by registration # AntiSec. The regulars at Twitter have accepted a hashtag (word together key messages on the same theme). This is the operation AntiSec for "Anti security", launched jointly by the agitators and LulzSec Anonymous, bringing together hackers and many followers.
"Governments and terrorists IT security continue to monitor our ocean is the Internet. We encourage all vessels, large and small, to open fire against any government or agency site dependent (like the CIA or the FBI, ndr), "says LulzSec in a manifesto . Exposing "censorship and corruption", vowing to defend the "right to privacy against the profiteering gluttons," the rhetoric of the group borrows the bulk of PirateBay and George Orwell, sprinkled with a second degree jovial and creaking .
After many media sites in recent weeks (Fox and PBS, deemed too critical of the movement), players of video games (Nintendo, Sony and Bethesda, for various reasons) and the CIA or the U.S. Senate, the attacks Tuesday hit Italian government sites , flooded with connection requests.
Arrest in Britain, the FBI raid in the U.S.
Monday, a young Englishman of 19 years was arrested , accused by British police to be connected to the group LulzSec. "It looks like the glorious leader LulzSec was arrested. Everything is over now. Wait ... It is still there. Who is this poor lucky arrested? " quipped the group on his Twitter account. Another tweet says the suspect "has little to do with" the collective, except that he co-managed a "IRC channel" (chat room).
Tuesday, the FBI raided and seized several racks of servers, Virginia put several blogs and sites offline. According to the New York Times , it is unclear whether the operation was linked to the actions of Anonymous and LulzSec.
Decentralised and poorly organized
On the IRC chat room operation AntiSec is pretty fair. "We should attack CNN," says one. "No, the Chinese government," says another. "Can someone explain to me how a hacker site?" Asks a beginner. "Is there a real member LulzSec?" Asked one visitor. "We are LulzSec" meet many Internet users, in chorus.
David Perry , one of the security experts most respected environmental currently evangelist from the manufacturer of Antivirus TrendMicro, and believes qu'Anonymous LulzSec "are less organized than many think." He said that "those who publish news releases are probably not the hackers themselves." "These are not professionals, or even hacktivists" politically motivated "but boastful similar to old-school hackers' of 80/90 years," who use the issue of security as an excuse, "said Will it.
The expert points out that a denial of service attack "is nothing sophisticated." He acknowledged that some more complex intrusions have taken place, with flights to key information, but reiterated that any site containing "numerous flaws" more or less easy to exploit.
"Soon in prison"
The recent actions of these groups have also helped to open a debate on the state rather alarming to online security. Perry acknowledges, but he said there are "other, more constructive." He believes that the situation "worse before it gets better." Improve safety on the Internet is like renovating a highway: this can be done piece by piece. "We could start with a brand new system of secure email," he speculates. But in the short term, "if you have a highly sensitive document, it has nothing to do on a computer connected to the Internet."
While the FBI and hackers play cat and mouse, the question remains whether the members of the most talented have the ability to evade authorities. Perry questioned. "With advanced knowledge, you can probably escape the local police," he said beforehand. "But when you attack the FBI and the CIA and they mobilize their best agents for you flush, they find you." The expert concluded: "These acts are not those of brilliant hackers. These are the acts of people who will soon be in prison. "
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