170 kill streak? Nothin’ suspicious bout that
20 year old Englishman Lewys Martin earned thousands of pounds off a website he created to distribute hacks, and exploits for Call Of Duty, and that money wasn’t earned through advertisements, but rather via electronic theft.
Foxconn is known for two things:
Well self proclaimed non-hacktivists (though that’s clearly what they are) SwaggSec has hacked Foxconn, and dumped all of the companies accounts/logins, and other vital information, along with a nice moral “fuck you” open letter to Foxconn, you continue reading for the open letter+data dump.
You may remember back around April when Anonymous infiltrated, and took down the Playstation Network. Now Anonymous has it’s army of eyes on Sony again, this time because Sony’s endorsement of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act)
The interesting thing is that soon after this announcement Sony Electronics, EA, and Nintendo all withdrew support for the bill. That being said, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Nashville all still support SOPA. With that in mind, it’s odd that Sony remains Anonymous’s primary target, as much more influential whole companies also support SOPA; like Viacom, or Disney, even the politicians pushing SOPA would be much more apt victims than Sony.
Continue reading for a transcript of the threatening video above, along with speculation about Anonymous’s attack strategy this time around.
Lulzsec are a group that we’ve been reporting on for a little while, yet this is the first time we’re acknowledging their name/group specifically.
Remember the shit load of developers that were getting hacked a month ago? Those were all done by Lulzsec, and while shit heads like Anonymous hack for B.S ideological reasons; Lulzsec hacked simply, and only for laughs, and to make headlines, we chose not to feed into that.
Their spokesperson who controlled their twitter account was notoriously cocky, and in general just a real piss off, well he’s recently been arrested. He was residing in the Shetland Islands in the U.K
I think I’m all out of hacker jail/rape jokes right now, I guess that’s a good thing, point is this dudes gonna get ruined.
I’m not going to introduce these hacking douches because A) you probably know who they are by now, B) I’m still tired of talking about them from a couple months back, C) If you don’t know who they are click here.
Now that that’s out of the way…I come bareing good news! 16 Anonymous losers who’ve been behind major attacks on corporations (Sony isn’t said specificially, but it’s a possibility) have been pwned arrested by the FBI.
I was going to photo edit a picture of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama saying something along the lines of “Off to the bum-rapery you go!” but while Googling for a Farnsworth source picture edit I came across something much more disturbing I now have to show you.
If you’re an inmate with a thing for animated tranny’s just look at this pic while fucking those Anonymous kids; I guarantee ya a good time.
Well, the hackers behind majority of the attacks in recent months (not including the big Sony hack) have disbanded. The group known as The Lulz Boat (or Lulzsec) has been making a mockery of our conventional knowledge of internet security practically weekly for several months. We here at FU refrained from mentioning the groups name until now because fame is obviously one of the things they wanted. We do not support internet hacktivists, pirates or digital terrorist here on FU. Now those guys are really fucked up.
“Not surprisingly, they are quitting. Lulzsec members are feeling the heat and are busy avoiding arrest. As predicted, the end of Lulzsec was inevitable. During this [past] week they tried to cover up themselves in order to avoid arrest by: regrouping with anonymous, creating the ‘antisec’ operation, falsely claiming the UK census was hacked as a ‘red herring,’” stated Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at Imperva on its blog.
Whether or not LulzSec have attempted to run away from hacking responsibilities by disbanding the group last week, the authorities have intensified their efforts in pursuing the notorious hackers responsible for hacking SONY, the CIA, the US Senate, PBS, FOX, NATO and many more. After announcing its quitting, LulzSec apparently jumped back on ship with its old buddy, Anonymous, to continue sailing the “Operation Anti-Sec” against governments.
Continue reading this rather lengthy article by clicking bellow.
Oh, uh wow; apparently someone noticed Sega still exists, and decided to hack them (ok Valkyria Chronicles is admittedly good, but Sonic is definitely dead)
So does Sega being among other hack victims like: Sony, Codemasters, Epic Games, Bethesda, Bioware, Square Enix, Nintendo, make Sega you know….legit? Not really, but to be fair I am being an asshole.
We’ve got the letter Sega sent to it’s customers after the cut. Continue reading
This is getting ridiculous: add Bioware (guys behind Mass Effect, and Dragon Age) to the hacked list (Sony, Codemasters, Epic Games, Bethesda, Square Enix, Nintendo)
Bright side? I don’t have to write about this B.S, this time around; Bioware’s Aaryn Flynn did a terrific job of explaining what happened over on their forums:
“Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts—a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.
We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.”
“I bet a joke about journalists will go over great in a room full of journalists!”
Ok so the title of this post is exaggerating what Jack said a ‘little’ but that is basically what he implied at the start of Sony’s E3 press conference.
Alright some context, Jack started off by saying how he has to address the elephant in the room (the PSN Outage) but he started it out with a little joke:
“Reporters tell me nothing makes their editor’s day like controversy and bad news, so to all our esteemed members of the press I say: you’re welcome.”
I’ve heard some reporters who basically think this is a shitty thing of Jack to say, but either way you have to admit he is 100% correct.
See when the PSN outage started people who follow the games industry were of course quite upset, and looking into every article they could find, to try and get some insight as to when PSN would be back, and what out of their personal information was compromised, but then the long outage forced your average Joe consumer to do some web surfing too, I don’t need to tell you that the sorta person who’ll pick up the Ps3 COD bundle far outweighs us “educated” gamers who’re thirsting after Uncharted 3, Bioshock Infinite, etc; so when this happened the internet exploded with all types of gamers looking for answers.
How did us journalists respond? By writing about every single piece of news many of us could find in order to get more hits. FUG vastly undereported the fiasco because…well I just got fucking sick of it personally, so on FUG you only saw the “big news” to keep you up to date (and yes we got a shit storm of views from that), whereas many other sites were posting any scrounge of crap they could find. Kotaku was the worst in this regard, their authors were quite often reposting a story that another Kotaku author already reported on, while giving it a different spin, and yes I’m saying spin, think Fox news fear mongering spin if you need an example.
So if Jack is going to light heartedly joke about the ridiculous amount of cash he put in some of these peoples pockets who often were criticizing Sony while writing these cash cow stories (FUG is currently non-profit) then I say more power to the bastard.
Bethesda the guys behind the excellent looking Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, as well as Brink. Have been hacked, well more their forums/website than anything. So if you’ve given their forum/website any info, or if you use Brink’s stat tracking, then your personal info may have been taken for what the 5th time this week by hackers? (I’m exaggerating but this list is getting fucking ridiculous: Sony, Codemasters, Epic Games, Nintendo, Square Enix, and now Bethesda)
Check out Bethesda’s blog for more details.
