Dutch Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten announced that the two countries will work together on topics such as critical infrastructure protectection and that they will share information as well as knowledge and expertise whenever hackers are attacking those infrastructures
“We want to find the criminals who are behind those attacks”, the Minister stated.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2747630/nederland-tekent-verdrag-cybercrime.html
The data – which identifies customers of the smut site, exposing them to potential embarrassment as a result – might also be used in attempts to hack into more sensitive accounts maintained by the same potential victims. Those that use the same or similar passwords for more sensitive accounts (webmail, Facebook, PayPal etc) are most at risk of attack.
E-mail addresses, active credit card accounts, personal details of politicians and law enforcement officers out in the open. Some of the most sensitive data was not encrypted.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2746843/creditcardgegevens-gelekt-hack-nationale-theaterkassa.html
Anonymous has so far plied its trade in “hactivist” exploits. But according to the director of the National Security Agency, it might soon turn its focus to U.S. infrastructure.
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources, Gen. Keith Alexander has said in private meetings at the White House and elsewhere that the U.S. must keep a close eye on Anonymous’ growth. He reportedly warned that if the organization continues to gain power, it might even take down a part of the U.S. power grid within the next couple of years.
In and of itself, IPv6 won’t make you any more secure than your childhood blue blanket
Children are targeted through the use of visual lures — flashing colours, pretty animations and interesting graphics can all serve as tools for a hacker to gain access to your machine. It is highly unlikely a young child will be worrying about online safety when a highly-visual animation or graphic ropes them in to clicking a button — and they may not understand what permissions they are granting a piece of third-party software when they do.
A child is also not necessarily aware of what signs to watch out for in order to realize a machine is infected. Slow performance, a spam bot sending out infected emails, or software such as toolbars and a changed Internet home page may rouse suspicion in an adult, but not necessarily someone younger.
Why does this occur?
Children are not always aware of threats lurking on the Internet, and therefore do not know how to prevent themselves becoming exposed to online scams — making them an enticing target for cyber-criminals.
Much more:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/children-and-hackers-what-you-need-to-know/14855
Dutch tech news website Tweakers.net is wondering whether recent DNS and VOIP disruptions, which coincided with KPN’s attempts to remedy the problems, can be attributed to the hackers
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/80160/kabinet-hackers-konden-kpn-verkeer-manipuleren.html
Previously:
http://vrritti.com/?s=kpn
A police statement says the three claim to be part of the international “Anonymous” activist collective, which has attacked computers in several countries.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9T14EG00.htm
See also:
…rather than a 13-year-old asshole cursing at you via Xbox Live as he downloads Anonymous software
And what do we have now? Kids like this.
http://gizmodo.com/5886362/hackers-were-scary-in-1990
Previously:
Judges Facing New Types Of Crimes, New Types (And Levels) Of Damage, New Types Of Suspects? (MegaUpload)
http://vrritti.com/2012/02/18/judges-facing-new-types-of-crimes-new-types-and-levels-of-damage-new-types-of-suspects/
Jacobs also states that the state of security at government level almost makes him cry.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/tech/2744710/ict-veiligheid-bij-lagere-overheden-janken.html
About Bart Jacobs: http://www.cs.ru.nl/~bart/
See also:
Based on what has been demonstrated thus far, ongoing research efforts, and the continuing advancements of computing and networking technology, we believe that cloud computing is poised to have a major impact on our societys data-central commercial and scientific endeavors.
http://cryptome.org/2012/01/nsa-cloud.pdf
Mr Ortmann is described as shy, very straight and a humble person who lives a modest life in rented accommodation with a long-term girlfriend (MegaUpload)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/198088/three-co-accused-same-address
Previously:
MegaUpload’s Bram van der Kolk: I’m a humble programmer with a wife and two-year-old son
http://vrritti.com/2012/02/11/megauploads-bram-van-der-kolk-im-a-humble-programmer-with-a-wife-and-two-year-old-son/
Mangham - who it is believed has Asperger’s and was said to have ‘no social life’ - claims that his work was ‘ethical hacking’ and he breached the security so that he could find vulnerabilities within the site, which the developers could then strengthen. This is someone who in previous times would have thrown everything aside to seek the source of the Nile and he would have continued until he did
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102690/Glenn-Mangham-hacked-Facebook-student-bedroom-brought-31m-empire.html
This endless pressure on an Aspergic man with severe mental health issues is barbaric
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-16996362
Richard O’Dwyer said the website had helped him with studies and said when he first set it up he “didn’t even think it would get that popular to be honest”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/student-to-face-us-trial-over-tvshack-website-6289235.html
On Thursday police in Cheltenham arrested a 26-year-old man who ran TV Links, which linked to video content on other sites, and shut down its Dutch servers. Then yesterday a 24-year-old IT worker who ran members-only torrent tracker website OiNK was arrested in Middlesbrough. Its servers – also in the Netherlands – were seized.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a78397/tv-links-oink-shut-in-download-site-raids.html
Dutch hacker Brenno de Winter will not be prosecuted in The Netherlands for hacking Public Transportation Cards. He did break the law but was acting as a reporter too
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/09/dutch-hacker-brenno-de-winter-will-not-be-prosecuted-in-the-netherlands-for-hacking-public-transportation-cards-he-did-break-the-law-but-was-acting-as-a-reporter-too-public-prosecutors-office-argu/ and http://vrritti.com/2011/06/24/dutch-public-transportation-card-hacker-brenno-de-winter-interrogated-for-four-hours/ and http://vrritti.com/2011/09/15/public-transport-card-hacker-brenno-de-winter-and-wikileaks-hacker-rop-gonggrijp-criticize-and-advise-dutch-government-on-diginotar-issue-during-political-debate-emphasize-need-for-better-it-security/
Bypassing security and accessing the protected internal systems he ‘hacked and hijacked’ the account of employee Stefan Parker and managed to reset his password.
Using the employee’s details he then accessed the ‘mailman server’ and the ‘phabricator server’ which contains the sites most sensitive intellectual property.
The hacker said that although he knew he was breaking the law he thought the company would be ‘grateful’ for his information based on his previous experience.
26-year-old Glenn Mangham - who it is believed has Asperger’s and was said to have ‘no social life’ - claims that his work was ‘ethical hacking’ and he breached the security so that he could find vulnerabilities within the site, which the developers could then strengthen.
He has to spend 8 months in jail now. His internet use was restricted for five years in a similar way as child porn offenders where officials can check on his usage and he cannot delete his history.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/analyse/109539/open-source-verovert-duistere-botnetwereld.html
Customers are furious. KPN agrees with their view (that anyone who will intercept their snail mail will be able to access their personal details and e-mail messages) but is only able to halt the distribution of the letters as of this Sunday.
Previous disasters:
http://vrritti.com/?s=kpn
