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| Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks |
The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".
The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified. It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board. News reports in The Australian have called Assange the "founder of WikiLeaks". According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest".
2006–08
WikiLeaks posted its first document in December 2006, a decision to assassinate government officials signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys."] In August 2007, The Guardian published a story about corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi based on information provided via WikiLeaks. In November 2007, a March 2003 copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta detailing the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was released. The document revealed that some prisoners were off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied. In February 2008, WikiLeaks released allegations of illegal activities at the Cayman Islands branch of the Swiss Bank Julius Baer, which led to the bank suing WikiLeaks and obtaining an injunction which temporarily shut down wikileaks.org. The California judge had the service provider of WikiLeaks block the site's domain (wikileaks.org) on 18 February 2008, although the bank only wanted the documents to be removed but WikiLeaks had failed to name a contact. The site was instantly mirrored by supporters, and later that month the judge overturned his previous decision citing First Amendment concerns and questions about legal jurisdiction. In March 2008, WikiLeaks published what they referred to as "the collected secret 'bibles' of Scientology," and three days later received letters threatening to sue them for breach of copyright. In September 2008, during the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns, the contents of a Yahoo account belonging to Sarah Palin (the running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain) were posted on WikiLeaks after being hacked into by members of Anonymous. In November 2008, the membership list of the far-right British National Party was posted to WikiLeaks, after briefly appearing on a blog. A year later, on October 2009, another list of BNP members was leaked.
2009
In January 2009, WikiLeaks released 86 telephone intercept recordings of Peruvian politicians and businessmen involved in the 2008 Peru oil scandal. In February, WikiLeaks released 6,780 Congressional Research Service reports followed in March, by a list of contributors to the Norm Coleman senatorial campaign and a set of documents belonging to Barclays Bank that had been ordered removed from the website of The Guardian. In July, it released a report relating to a serious nuclear accident that had occurred at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility in 2009. Later media reports have suggested that the accident was related to the Stuxnet computer worm. In September, internal documents from Kaupthing Bank were leaked, from shortly before the collapse of Iceland's banking sector, which led to the 2008–2010 Icelandic financial crisis. The document shows that suspiciously large sums of money were loaned to various owners of the bank, and large debts written off. In October, Joint Services Protocol 440, a British document advising the security services on how to avoid documents being leaked was published by WikiLeaks. Later that month, it announced that a super-injunction was being used by the commodities company Trafigura to gag The Guardian (London) from reporting on a leaked internal document regarding a toxic dumping incident in the Ivory Coast. In November, it hosted copies of e-mail correspondence between climate scientists, although they were not originally leaked to WikiLeaks. It also released 570,000 intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the 11 September attacks. During 2008 and 2009, WikiLeaks published the alleged lists of forbidden or illegal web addresses for Australia, Denmark and Thailand. These were originally created to prevent access to child pornography and terrorism, but the leaks revealed that other sites covering unrelated subjects were also listed.
2010
In March 2010, WikiLeaks released a secret 32-page U.S. Department of Defense Counterintelligence Analysis Report written in March 2008 discussing the leaking of material by WikiLeaks and how it could be deterred. In April, a classified video of the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike was released, showing two Reuters employees being fired at, after the pilots mistakenly thought the men were carrying weapons, which were in fact cameras. In the week following the release, "wikileaks" was the search term with the most significant growth worldwide in the last seven days as measured by Google Insights. In January 2010, WikiLeaks received the first test cable. A 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, PFC (formerly SPC) Bradley Manning, leaked a US embassy cable relating to IceSave, thereafter referred as "Reykjavik 13". In June 2010, he was arrested after alleged chat logs were turned in to the authorities by former hacker Adrian Lamo, in whom he had confided. Manning reportedly told Lamo he had leaked the "Collateral Murder" video, in addition to a video of the Granai airstrike and around 260,000 diplomatic cables, to WikiLeaks. In July, WikiLeaks released 92,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and the end of 2009 to The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel. The documents detail individual incidents including friendly fire and civilian casualties. At the end of July, a 1.4 GB "insurance file" was added to the Afghan War Diary page, whose decryption details would be released if WikiLeaks or Assange were harmed. About 15,000 of the 92,000 documents have not yet been released on WikiLeaks, as the group is currently reviewing the documents to remove some of the sources of the information. WikiLeaks asked the Pentagon and human-rights groups to help remove names from the documents to reduce the potential harm caused by their release, but did not receive assistance. Following the Love Parade stampede in Duisburg, Germany, on 24 July 2010, a local resident published internal documents of the city administration regarding the planning of Love Parade. The city government reacted by securing a court order on 16 August forcing the removal of the documents from the site on which it was hosted. On 20 August 2010, WikiLeaks released a publication entitled Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007–2010, which comprised 43 internal documents regarding the Love Parade 2010. Following on from the leak of information from the Afghan War, in October 2010, around 400,000 documents relating to the Iraq War were released in October. The BBC quoted The Pentagon referring to the Iraq War Logs as "the largest leak of classified documents in its history." Media coverage of the leaked documents focused on claims that the U.S. government had ignored reports of torture by the Iraqi authorities during the period after the 2003 war.
Diplomatic cables release
On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and five major newspapers from Spain (El PaÃs), France (Le Monde), Germany (Der Spiegel), the United Kingdom (The Guardian), and the United States (The New York Times) started to simultaneously publish the first 220 of 251,287 leaked confidential — but not top-secret — diplomatic cables from 274 US embassies around the world, dated from 28 December 1966 to 28 February 2010. WikiLeaks plans to release the entirety of the cables in phases over several months.
The contents of the diplomatic cables include numerous unguarded comments and revelations regarding: critiques and praises about the host countries of various US embassies; political manuvering regarding climate change; discussion and resolutions towards ending ongoing tension in the Middle East; efforts and resistance towards nuclear disarmament; actions in the War on Terror; assessments of other threats around the world; dealings between various countries; US intelligence and counterintelligence efforts; and other diplomatic actions. Reactions to the United States diplomatic cables leak include stark criticism, anticipation, commendation, and quiescence. Consequent reactions to the US government include ridicule, sympathy, bewilderment and dismay. On 14 December 2010 the United States Department of Justice issued a subpoena directing Twitter to provide information for accounts registered to or associated with WikiLeaks. Twitter decided to notify its users. The overthrow of the presidency in Tunisia has been attributed in part to reaction against the corruption revealed by leaked cables.
2011 : Guantanamo files
In late April 2011, files related to the Guantanamo prison were released.
Wow, for being only 5 years old they have done a remarkable and outstanding job of serving the people. The one thing most governments in the world have left off their agenda’s. Keep up the good work Wikileaks and we stand in support and behind you.
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Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks
Unknown
10/04/2011
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| Lulzsec member blog hacked by TeaMp0isoN |
Personal Blog http://sven-slootweg.nl/ of one of the Lulzsec Member get defaced by TeaMp0isoN . Get more details about TeaMp0isoN.
BREAKING NEWS: TEH LULZBOAT HAS OFFICALY SANK WITH 100S OF ANON MEMBERS ON BOARD!No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so, instead u posted hashes from public forums and then claimed you doxed us and laughed at the fact that i was 17years old. stop telling yourself that u are hackers, putting a ip into a irc is NOT hacking nor is using pre-made tools and scripts to grab databases… you do not represent the anti-sec movement, u are not allowed to greet underground groups like zf0, ab, h0n0, el8 like your member “AnonSabu” was doing, you will never be apart of the underground scene, if anyone thinks you are underground and can actually hack they have no idea about what happens in the underground scene. oh and TeaMp0isoN Issue 2 is coming out VERY soon exposing lulzsec members (pictures, addresses, passwords, ips, phone numbers etc). . . . not so anonymous anymore are you? lets hope that you can swim because the lulzboat just got titanic’d…
Hacked Site Link : http://sven-slootweg.nl/index_defaced.html
Lulzsec Member Blog Hacked by TeaMp0isoN
Unknown
6/22/2011
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| CIA Website Hacked, LulzSec Takes Credit |
The hacker group LulzSec claimed credit Wednesday for taking down the CIA’s Web site for a couple of hours, the latest in a string of embarrassing Web site disruptions the group has pulled off — apparently more to poke fun and highlight vulnerabilities than to cause real damage.
At 5:48 p.m., LulzSec, which dubs itself “the world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense,” posted an alert on Twitter: “Tango down — cia.gov — for the lulz.”
The site was back up by 8 p.m.
But the fact that the group could penetrate Web sites and harvest system administrators’ credentials underscores the risks of failing to secure sites, experts said.
“Web sites are the low-hanging fruit,” said Richard Stiennon, a cyber expert and author of “Surviving Cyberwar.” “But the Web sites are running on a server. Once you completely own the server that the Web site is on, you can watch the insiders log in and record their activity, and that can be a front door into the organization.”
In recent weeks, LulzSec has claimed credit for hacking or bringing down Web sites belonging to PBS, Sony, the U.S. Senate andthe Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership between the FBI and the private sector dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States.
In the case of InfraGard, LulzSec stole and published 180 user names, passwords and e-mail addresses of members. When it hacked the Senate site, it published the user names and passwords of system administrators — enough to show that the group had done it.
LulzSec, Stiennon said, spun off from Anonymous, another hacker group that has claimed responsibility for Web site attacks against organizations that it perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy Web site that has published massive amounts of leaked U.S. government documents.
Anonymous, in turn, he said, spun off from users of 4chan, a collection of uncensored online message boards — a site “for hackers and geeks to hang out.”
“LulzSec’s motivation appears to be to doing it for grins and giggles,” he said. “This is a very old hacker mentality, which is if you’re vulnerable, you’re stupid and deserve to be embarrassed and taken out.”
LulzSec, which also calls itself “The Lulz Boat,” has a somewhat “anarchistic” agenda, he said. “They’re against government control of information, much as they’re against media control of music and movies.”
Last month, after PBS’s “Frontline” ran a documentary on WikiLeaks that LulzSec perceived as unfair, the group hacked into PBS’s site and posted a fake article claiming that rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand.
The assault on the CIA was by denial of service, or overloading the site’s server with requests for access.
CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf said the agency is “looking into these reports.”
Similar denial-of-service attacks were carried out against Sony gaming sites last week. LulzSec claims to have 1 million user names and passwords for subscribers to these sites, Stiennon said.
As opposed to being “uber hackers working for a foreign agency,” LulzSec basically publishes its findings for entertainment, he said. One sign it might be working, he said, is that the group has more than 158,000 followers on Twitter.
Just this week, it posted a hotline number on its Twitter feed to take suggestions for what sites to hack next.
At 5:48 p.m., LulzSec, which dubs itself “the world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense,” posted an alert on Twitter: “Tango down — cia.gov — for the lulz.”
The site was back up by 8 p.m.
But the fact that the group could penetrate Web sites and harvest system administrators’ credentials underscores the risks of failing to secure sites, experts said.
“Web sites are the low-hanging fruit,” said Richard Stiennon, a cyber expert and author of “Surviving Cyberwar.” “But the Web sites are running on a server. Once you completely own the server that the Web site is on, you can watch the insiders log in and record their activity, and that can be a front door into the organization.”
In recent weeks, LulzSec has claimed credit for hacking or bringing down Web sites belonging to PBS, Sony, the U.S. Senate andthe Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership between the FBI and the private sector dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States.
In the case of InfraGard, LulzSec stole and published 180 user names, passwords and e-mail addresses of members. When it hacked the Senate site, it published the user names and passwords of system administrators — enough to show that the group had done it.
LulzSec, Stiennon said, spun off from Anonymous, another hacker group that has claimed responsibility for Web site attacks against organizations that it perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy Web site that has published massive amounts of leaked U.S. government documents.
Anonymous, in turn, he said, spun off from users of 4chan, a collection of uncensored online message boards — a site “for hackers and geeks to hang out.”
“LulzSec’s motivation appears to be to doing it for grins and giggles,” he said. “This is a very old hacker mentality, which is if you’re vulnerable, you’re stupid and deserve to be embarrassed and taken out.”
LulzSec, which also calls itself “The Lulz Boat,” has a somewhat “anarchistic” agenda, he said. “They’re against government control of information, much as they’re against media control of music and movies.”
Last month, after PBS’s “Frontline” ran a documentary on WikiLeaks that LulzSec perceived as unfair, the group hacked into PBS’s site and posted a fake article claiming that rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand.
The assault on the CIA was by denial of service, or overloading the site’s server with requests for access.
CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf said the agency is “looking into these reports.”
Similar denial-of-service attacks were carried out against Sony gaming sites last week. LulzSec claims to have 1 million user names and passwords for subscribers to these sites, Stiennon said.
As opposed to being “uber hackers working for a foreign agency,” LulzSec basically publishes its findings for entertainment, he said. One sign it might be working, he said, is that the group has more than 158,000 followers on Twitter.
Just this week, it posted a hotline number on its Twitter feed to take suggestions for what sites to hack next.
CIA Website Hacked, LulzSec Takes Credit
Unknown
6/16/2011
Apparently committing crimes for the "lulz" is still entertaining for the group known as LulzSec.
They announced their latest conquests around 12:30pm PDT today, senate.gov and Bethesda Softworks.
Nothing terribly secret was lost in the breach of the US Senate's web server. LulzSec posted some basic information on the filesystems, user logins and the Apache web server config files.
The also dumped a directory listing of what appears to be every single file on the server. Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act this hack could earn someone 5 to 20 years in prison, if convicted.
At the end of their post LulzSec appears to be taunting the American authorities...
"This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data
from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?
- Lulz Security"
They also attacked Bethesda Softworks, the makers of Quake, Fallout, Doom, Elder Scrolls and other big name video games.
It is unclear why LulzSec decided to attempt to embarrass yet another video game company other than to show off.
They made a statement on their website suggesting they needed to prove they were better hackers than the group who recently hacked the website of Bethesda's new game Brink.
It is difficult to explain random acts of sabotage and defacement, so I am not going to attempt to get into the heads of those behind these attacks. About the only take-away is that it's best to secure your web assets against these types of attacks before rather than after.
They made a statement on their website suggesting they needed to prove they were better hackers than the group who recently hacked the website of Bethesda's new game Brink.
It is difficult to explain random acts of sabotage and defacement, so I am not going to attempt to get into the heads of those behind these attacks. About the only take-away is that it's best to secure your web assets against these types of attacks before rather than after.
LulzSec Attacks US Senate and Bethesda Softworks
Unknown
6/14/2011
From PBS.org to Pron.com, nobody's safe from the rascal hackers of Lulz Security, who have now outed the identities of tens of thousands of porn aficionados.
In their ongoing quest for laughs at the expense of everyone else, hacker group Lulz Security has hit a new type of target: Porn. The group announced on Friday that it had infiltrated 56 porn sites, stolen and posted administrative emails and published an additional 26,000 emails and passwords from users of Pron.com.
“Hi! We like porn (sometimes), so these are email/password combinations [sic] from pron.com which we plundered for the lulz,” the group wrote in a release on their website, which also contained all the stolen email addresses and passwords.
The user data posted by LulzSec cannot be used to access the porn website accounts. Instead, it simply exposes the users as watchers of porn. The group specifically pointed out users with government and military email addresses who had signed up for the porn site.
But hacking porn sites wasn’t all LulzSec did in the past 24 hours. In a seemingly uncharacteristic move (as if we could say what the character of LulzSec is in the first place, which we cannot), the group alerted the British National Health Service to its network’s password vulnerabilities, and took down Muslim terrorist website aljahad.com. (Admittedly, the latter appears to have been carried out as a jab against rival hacker “Th3 J35t3r,” who took down the same site on June 5.)
These cyber shenanigans follow LulzSec attacks on PBS.org, Sony, Nintendo, FBI affiliate Infragard Atlanta, and data security company Unveillance, among others.
Since the attack on PBS.org on May 30, which involved posting a fake story about deceased rapper Tupac Shakur living in New Zealand, LulzSec’s following on Twitter — where the majority of its statements and communications are published — has exploded to more 120,000.
The group has even managed to gain a following amongst members of the “white hat” cyber security industry — the people supposed to be fighting against LulzSec and their ilk — simply because they’ve so successfully made clear that most digitally stored data is woefully exposed.
“LulzSec is running around pummeling some of the world’s most powerful organizations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles!” writes security expert Patrick Gray on Risky.biz. “Surely that tells you what you need to know about computer security: there isn’t any.”
So, who’s next on LulzSec’s list of unlucky entities? Who knows! But we’d wager that Sony’s on there somewhere.
LulzSec, Exposes User Data of Porn Sites
Unknown
6/12/2011
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