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The War That’s Fought At Their Finger Tips (Updated)

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Some of you may know them as the group who brought down the PlayStation Network, others may know them as the people who broke into the Senate.gov site  and also took down the CIA site. Or maybe for another demographic, you may know then as the people who defaced the PBS.org site with the fake Tupac is alive in New Zealand article. They call themselves Hackivists. They are Lulz Security or LulzSec for short. It’s said they hack to expose the vulnerabilities in order for the violated to strengthen their security, for the public to be made aware of things that shouldn’t be or be private, and of course amusement. Hacking for vulnerabilities sake is effective but at a cost. We really aren’t as secure online as we think. Some might say a false sense of security is better then none at all. o_O What’s your take?

LulzSec launched an anti-government crusade on 6/19. Another known hacking  group known as Anonymous has joined them. We shall see what to make of this.

Operation Anti-Security  (Check it out)

A few of their tweets:

LulzSec The Lulz Boat 

Your tax money is being used to pay for things to not be secured so that people like us can take what you expect to be kept inaccessible.

LulzSec The Lulz Boat

@FBIPressOffice Also, we pissed in your cheerios.

LulzSec The Lulz Boat

Operation Anti-Security is in effect. Join the fleet and tear the government and whitehat peons limb from limb – #antisec winds are strong.

Should you be more worried about your internet security than you already are? Not necessarily. It’s more so of a Matrix blue pill thing. This is Wikileaks type stuff, kinda.
Now you know, but be vigilant and keep your information as “guarded” as you can.
Updates
Check out the Arizona law enforcement breach here
*As of 6/27/11, LulzSec called it quits after 50 days of “mayhem” and says it is disbanding. They said they always intended to wreak havoc for 50 days and that it wasn’t because they were scared of law enforcement or rival hackers. They claim they wanted to resurrect the anti-security movement rather known as anti-sec which supposedly advocates better security for all by hacking things….interesting.

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