LulzSec

http://www.pcworld.com/article/23033...xt_target.html

"Have you ever felt so angry at a company that you wished its website was hacked to shreds, but you didn't have the technical expertise required? Here comes LulzSec to the rescue. The marauding hackers, with their huge and growing list of conquests -- including PBS, the FBI and the U.S. Senate, pornography and gaming sites, and most of all, Sony -- opened a hack request line during their latest merry jaunt, Titanic Takeover Tuesday."



http://lulzsecurity.com/


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06...ec_eve_online/

Prolific hacker pranksters LulzSec took out sci-fi game EVE Online on Tuesday as part of a run of attacks apparently perpetrated purely for the lulz.

'A DDoS attack left EVE Online offline for around five hours as part of an operation called Titanic Takeover Tuesday. CCP Games, the firm behind the popular multiplayer game, said that it took both EVE Online and its own website offline as a precaution, fearing that the DDoS attacks could act as a smokescreen for deeper penetrating assaults.'



LulzSec has appeared from nowhere to become the most notorious hacking group on the planet with attacks on FBI affiliates, Sony, the US Senate, a popular porn site and a string of gaming firms. Previous attacks have highlighted security weakness involving Bethesda and Nintendo.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...-user-data.ars
LulzSec hackers demand hats, threaten release of Brink user data

I don't get the DDOS thing. It's not a hack; it almost seems like a face saving measure after a failure?

Lulz, sec. So what you're saying is that this isn't funny?

They brought the CIA's down a couple of times last night. They're just script kiddies, that are getting attention from people on Twitter/media outlets that pick up the story.

LulzSec, the hacker group responsible for security breach of several high profile targets including CIA, FBI affiliate, Sony, Nintendo, Fox and PBS has released the stolen data from the SonyPictures.com which includes personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. LulzSec tweeted moments ago providing the link to download the stolen data torrent through BitTorrent site 'The Pirate Bay'.

"People are saying our CIA attack was the biggest yet, but it was really a very simple packet flood. This is our biggest: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6443601/Sownage": LulzSec tweeted.

And finally, this makes me the happiest.

Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan
http://gizmodo.com/5812373/lulzsec-h...war-with-4chan

Lulz Security borrows its name and aesthetics from the roiling message board 4chan. But now the group has declared war on 4chan and its users—many of whom identify with the hacking group Anonymous—pissing off the nerds who are most likely to support their online shenanigans.

It's chaos in the internet's crotch: 4chan was down for much of the afternoon. Lulz Security, the hacking group behind well-publicized PBS and FBI-affiliate hacks, is openly taunting 4channers and members of Anonymous, even crowd-sourcing prank calls against 4chan's web hosting company via their hotline: 614-LULZSEC. In response, 4chan users launched an internet manhunt to track down members of Lulzsec.

Now it's time to sit back, and watch the LULZ.

They should take down Second Life. I'd find it lulzy.

It is funny, but I completely agree with WW. DDoS is a last resort, which really just annoys the host for a little bit.

Still.