LulzSec Creates Phone Request Line
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Lulz Security (or LulzSec if you’re in a hurry) has decided to ask the masses what it should hack next. The group that cracked Sony Pictures, Nintendo, The US Senate, The Escapist, and more have set up a hotline where the community can suggest future targets. The number was posted to the group’s Twitter account yesterday and immediately received thousands of calls.
LulzSec claims to have run DDoS attacks against eight sites suggested by users so far. The group has not said whether those attacks also involved accessing private information on servers. Callers to the new US-based phone number are treated to a recording in a heavy French accent instructing them to leave a message.
The number is tied to the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area, but it’s unlikely that indicates anything about LulzSec’s physical location. We might get a chuckle from LulzSec’s antics, but at what point does it go too far?
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zaphodbeeblebrox 42
June 17, 2011 at 6:43pm
hack apple
it would shoiw those stupid ifans that they are not secure at all. and it would be halirous if they got the roughly $55,000,000,000 apple is sitting on and spread the money around the world so apple could never get it back. AKA good bye apple.
a goverment aggent has seen this post and i am now on a watchlist.
Jims45wow
June 15, 2011 at 9:55pm
If they would have gone after the 2 political parties, rather than government offices, they would have gotten more sympathy--But might be in bigger trouble.
Joji
June 15, 2011 at 5:11pm
Some of their attacks are DDOSing websites. That's just... unimpressive. DDOSing is not hacking, but rather something that 10 year old script kiddie could probably do. :/
They DDOSed the CIA and thought that was a good accomplishment. Mehhh... script kiddies. /facepalm
MattyMattMatt
June 15, 2011 at 4:29pm
Please go after the cheezburger network. Those motherfuckers ruined IMMD with that image macro faggotry.
TheZomb
June 15, 2011 at 3:15pm
As annoying as these attacks are they are high lighting the worlds loosey goosey attitude to information security. Imagine if we went to war and some of the best hackers are doing what their doing with a more malevolent purpose. We are helpless to an external threat and our government is doing shit to protect us. I say they should keep it up until enough people are screaming at the government and corporations to get their information security shit together because the fact that these attacks happen and persist to happen is completely unnacceptable. Every company that has been hacked should be ashamed as consumers we need to vote with our dollars against companies that don't protect their information.
In a war time situation we would completely helpless and crippled as a nation if an enemy decided to attack us with cyber warfare. Nothing is being done to fix this. The pentagon has been hacked on numerous occasions that have been publicly disclosed, and hackers have even gained the ability to prevent us from deploying troops. The government has done nothing.
d3v
June 16, 2011 at 4:07am
Er you are at war! America is currently waging war in 5 countries:
Afghanistan
Iraq
Libya
Pakistan - where I live.
Yemen
Forget about information security. Just watch the news and keep up with what's going on in the world!
BAMT
June 15, 2011 at 4:27pm
I know that's a movie reference, but I bet they couldn't hack http://thegibsondc.com/ with only a single, static page.
Neufeldt2002
June 15, 2011 at 2:49pm
Well, if they only go after soft targets, why do it at all?
Disclaimer: I am not for hacking at all.
Neufeldt2002
June 15, 2011 at 2:30pm
If they are going to hack something, it should be the Great Firewall of China.
sean.h.freeman
June 16, 2011 at 10:19am
I would say you need to brighten up. So, they've basically vandalized businesses, government entities, pretty much admitted to stealing possibly sensative data, and continue to taunt and threaten to do more.
But you, you think they are harmless right? Probably because they haven't had a personal impact on you. Yet. Think about it moron. Do you actually think it stops at that?
yu119995
June 21, 2011 at 8:16am
Kinda sounds like our governments actually. Maybe you should read your own Constitution and cross reference that with how many of those civil liberties have been and continue to be compromised. Btw don't call people names. It's a discussion; it shouldn't be personal.
jgottberg
June 15, 2011 at 2:23pm
At what point does it go too far?? Hasn't it already gone too far?
I see ZERO value in what they are doing. It's sickening to me that people think these are "harmless" attacks just because they didn't steal anything.
The media needs to stop giving them the sick attention they are seeking. They are lifetime fails looking to make their mark on something, anything.
RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS
June 15, 2011 at 2:19pm
They should target the CIA or FBI.
Afterwards, we will have many happy Lulz thinking about their tender little asses being violated nightly in federal penitentiary.
Do it. Go after the CIA or FBI, geniuses.
Marthian
June 15, 2011 at 2:39pm
by them making a phone number, they have possibly made it as easy as hell trying to bust their sorry asses. It could be just some phone service, but well you never know. If people actually got arrested for this s**t, I bet they wouldn't be doing it as much (if at all)
mattman059
June 15, 2011 at 2:44pm
with VOIP services offering phone numbers it wouldnt be that hard to register a phone number with any area code, and route the traffic through their proxy servers and botnet just like they do for their "attacks" and internet traffic
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