nsane.forums Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 A PBS NewsHour blog late Sunday proclaimed that murdered rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were still alive and living in New Zealand. No, NewsHour did not have an exclusive, but were the targets of malicious hackers who broke into the PBS servers and defaced the site. The group responsible, called Lulz Sec, also posted online what appeared to be more than two thousand PBS passwords and login IDs. PBS was working to regain control of its site about seven hours after notifying users on Twitter and Facebook it had been hacked. At the time of this writing, however, Lulz Sec was still actively posting items on blogs.pbs.org. The group also claimed on Twitter that PBS couldn't do much to shut them out. Lulz Sec said it broke into PBS.org in response to the way a recent Frontline episode entitled Wikisecrets portrayed the whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks. Lulz Sec says it is not affiliated with the hacker group Anonymous, despite both groups' respect for Wikileaks. Data Breach Lulz Sec also posted online what the group claimed were user IDs and passwords for the PBS MySQL database, as well as login credentials for affiliate stations, PBS reporters, Frontline staff, PBS staff and administrators, and a map of the PBS internal network. It's not clear if any other data was taken or if the malicious hackers simply wanted to embarrass the network. More To Come? This is not the first time Lulz Sec has caused havoc online. The group recently exposed a database from a Japan-based Sony site and also broke into Fox.com in mid-May. Lulz Sec isn't finished with its shenanigans either. The group is promising more attacks against Sony sites within the next 24 hours in an operation it is calling Sownage (Sony + Ownage). Attacks Increasing Corporations and other large organizations are finding themselves increasingly vulnerable to malicious hacks from pranksters or serious criminals. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently revealed it was the target of a cyberattack, but claimed it had repelled the intruders and protected its data. The Lockheed Martin attack was the result of a previous intrusion against RSA Security that compromised the company's SecurID two-factor authentication product. A March break-in against Epsilon Interactive, the world's biggest email marketing firm, exposed the customer names and email addresses for dozens of high profile companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, US Bank, Citigroup, and Walgreens. In late April, malicious hackers stole a few megabytes of data from the Oakridge National Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Finally, the now infamous Sony PlayStation Network hack, which shut down the online gaming network for nearly four weeks, still has the company reeling from a lot of bad press and disgruntled users. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Corporations and other large organizations are finding themselves increasingly vulnerable to malicious hacks from pranksters or serious criminals. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently revealed it was the target of a cyberattack, but claimed it had repelled the intruders and protected its data.*Some bot scouting the internet for exploitable computers attempts to access a few non-existent directories on their server: cyber-attack, but we're repelling them and whilst at it protecting our data! Take that, hacker-individual-person...* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I can actually half way vouch for PBS. It's not a huge mega corporation like many others, it's more down to earth and less of a globalist attire. When other news TV companies spewed pure garbage, PBS was actually there for the little guy...for the most part. It has probably changed since way back when (been absorbed into the HIVE mentality of things sorta) but I see this hack as if it's just childish to a point. Oh well...to each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActive Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I see this hack as if it's just childish to a point. Oh well...to each his own.I tend to agree, I don't know much about PBS, but that attack seems rather silly and unless I'm mistaken it's also unprovoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpua Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 According to the article discussed in the first post in this thread, the attack on PBS was provoked by their running a story on the PBS show "Frontline" recently, that portrayed Wikileaks in an unfavorable way (at least in the opinion of the hackers). So the attack was provoked. Still sucks as PBS Newshour is the least biased and provides the most in depth reporting of any major news program. Notice I said "least biased" which doesn't mean they don't have any bias. They just make more of an effort and succeed in being much more in depth and even handed and fair than the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 1, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 1, 2011 Some unconfirmed news about PBS hackers taking control of Sony's chat servers today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Doesn't surprise me at all.. SONY still deserves some of this... LOL.. too much activity spread far and wide even to the obscurities of the web... I just got down adding 9 different protections and blacklisting over 1200 bots... on trial for a few days before I bring things back online... Glad I don't run sites with databases and other thing to be concerned over at this point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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