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Anonymous Launches HackerLeaks: WikiLeaks For Stolen Data

A new website called HackerLeaks, reportedly launched last week by members of hacker-activist collective Anonymous, invites users to submit hacked data for analysis and publication.

Similar to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, HackerLeaks operatives “receive documents through anonymous submission channel, analyze them, and then distribute them to the press,” Forbes's Andy Greenberg reported on Thursday.

The organization’s official mission statement, available on the HackerLeaks website (here), reads,

“In both security as well as overall strategy, HackerLeaks is closely modeled on WikiLeaks. Our first priority is to provide a safe, secure - and anonymous way for hackers to disclose sensitive information. Our team of analysts first carefully screens each submission for any possible trace of the senders identity. Our second commitment is to ensure that each and every leak receives the maximum exposure possible in order to achieve the most profound political impact for the risks taken by those submitting material. To that end, we work with media outlets all over the world.”

Amidst recent Internet security breaches, independent hackers have been utilizing sites such asPastebin to release compromised data. HackerLeaks, on the other hand, claims to provide an added incentive, offering “maximum exposure and political impact” as a result of such "leaks".

“We just wanted to make our own offering, compete in the disclosure marketplace and maybe fill a unique role if we can,” says a HackerLeaks representative who spoke to Greenberg over instant message.

As of this writing, there has been one anonymous submission to HackerLeaks –– a leak containing personal information of Orlando officials. Time will tell whether or not more hackers will utilize HackerLeaks in order to publicize the data that they’ve taken.

Anonymous has reportedly launched a "war" against the city of Orlando to voice disapproval over the arrests of non-profit workers who distribute food to the homeless without obtaining permits from the city. The group claimed that it will target "city web assets," and apparently downed the Orlando Florida Guide soon thereafter.

Homeland Security Vs Anonymous vs Orlando Florida

WASHINGTON -- Businesses facing a growing threat of cyberattacks against their websites will now have more tools to protect themselves and harden their Internet sites against hackers.

The Homeland Security Department will help small companies and nonprofit groups avoid programming problems that allow hackers to get into the businesses' websites.

The government's latest cybersecurity effort follows a series of high-profile hacking attacks against corporate and federal websites, including one that shut down the CIA's site for several hours last week.

The new program was developed with the Mitre Corp. and is an effort to shore up known weaknesses in programming that give hackers a backdoor into websites. The effort began well before the recent website attacks.

It includes a list of top 25 technical software problems that hackers exploit and sets up a way to rank software so that customers can see whether it meets necessary standards.

Right now, when owners of small businesses buy software or hire a firm to build a website, it is difficult to know whether the programs are secure or not, said Alan Paller, director of research at SANS Institute, a computer-security organization.

He said the information, which has been compiled on a special website that the public can view, will tell people what to look for in setting up a secure website and how to judge potential programming errors. It also sets up a scorecard, so that companies looking for a firm to set up a website can check their security score.

The effort is aimed at the more than 1 million computer programmers and other high-tech professionals who write code, build websites and develop software. It lays out known software weaknesses and how to fix them.

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Meanwhile Anonymous Declares War on Orlando Florida

Orlando, Florida: home of Disneyworld, and newest target of hacker group Anonymous.

The Washington Post reports that Anonymous has apparently posted a new release threatening to take down websites belonging or relating to the city of Orlando.

This new effort comes as a response to the arrests of Food Not Bombs non-profit workers who have been distributing food to the homeless without permits. The group's compliance with city ordinances has, in the past, caused tension between workers and the city government. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has allegedly referred to Food Not Bombs members "food terrorists," according to a quote in the Orlando Sentinel.

"This is a declaration of war," read the supposed Anonymous release, which TechCrunch has posted in full. "Henceforth there will be no more cease fires, no more attempts to get you to resolve this issue with human decency. We will now treat you like the human rights abusers that you are."

The release also contained a warning that "Anonymous will now begin a massive campaign against you and your city web assets. Everyday we will launch a new DDoS attack on a different Target."

The authors of the release went on to say that Anonymous planned to take down the Orlando Florida Guide at 10 AM today and leave it down until 6 PM. At the time of this writing, the site is down.

Anonymous is tweeting out its actions at the handle @oporlando2011.

New Game Releases for the week of 6-27-11

New Game Releases for the week of 6-27-11

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (PlayStation 3)

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (PlayStation 3)

Sniper: Ghost Warrior (PlayStation 3)

UFC Personal Trainer (PlayStation 3)

UFC Personal Trainer (Xbox 360)

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (Xbox 360)

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (Xbox 360)

Call of Duty: Black Ops LTO (Xbox 360)

Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident (Nintendo Wii)

Maximum Racing: Super Karts (Nintendo Wii)

Wicked Monster Blast Bundle with 4 Blasters (Nintendo Wii)

Wicked Monster Blast (Nintendo Wii)

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries (Nintendo 3DS)

Reel Fishing Paradise 3D (Nintendo 3DS)

Grip with Silicone Handles for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo 3DS)

3DS Transformers Cybertanium Case - Bumblebee (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS)

Jewels of the Ages (Jewels of Olympus / Jewels of Ancient Pharaoh's) (Nintendo DS)

Fishdom (Nintendo DS)

Jewel Match (Nintendo DS)

Einstein's Brain Power (Nintendo DS)

Starfish Elminage 3 -Ankoku no Shito to Taiyo no Kyuden- for PSP [Japan Import] (Sony PSP)

SEGA INITIAL D STREET STAGE PSP the Best for PSP [Japan Import] (Sony PSP)

Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse (Windows Vista / 7 / XP, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X)

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising Collector's Edition (Windows Vista / 7 / XP)

Storm: Frontline Nation (Windows 7 / XP / Vista)

Glowfish (Windows Vista / 7 / XP)

ACCESSORIES

Xbox 360 Slim - Auto Cooler Console Stand and USB Hub (Xbox 360)

Grip with Silicone Handles for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo 3DS)

KONNET Power Pyramid Storage and Charging Station for PS3 and XBox Free Bundle with ExpressHD HDMI Cable 150 - Special Promo (PlayStation 3)

Aimi Eguchi, Of Japan's AKB48 Pop Idols, Has A Secret: She's Not Human

And She only takes up 150 Gigs of Memory!

Only 15 seconds in the limelight and she’d already created an overnight buzz. She was the newest member of the very popular all-girl Japanese idol group AKB 48. Upon seeing the new face appear on a candy commercial, the band’s faithful took to the message boards: Who is Aimi Eguchi?

This past Sunday, Ezaki Glico, the candy company which aired the commercial,confirmed what many of AKB 48’s fans had come to suspect: Aimi Eguchi wasn’t real. The new group member, it turns out, was a computer-generated composite of the real band members. Her pretty face was actually made up of the “best features” of six other members: her eyes, nose, mouth, hair/body, face outline and eyebrows were not flesh-and-blood, but cut-and-paste.

Not everyone was so quick to catch on, however, and Aimi had already formed a fan base of her own. “The video shocked fans of Eguchi,” reports ChannelNews Asia, “who were convinced that her features were more the result of good genes than the skillful use of computer graphics.

But why the suspicion in the first place? A quick search and fans found Aimi’s AKB 48 profile, discovered she was sixteen years old, that she competed in track and field, and that she was from Saitama, a prefecture on the island of Honshu. They would have also discovered that Aimi had debuted in a photoshoot for Shueisha’s Weekly Playboy magazine.

Conspiracy theorists who gave it more thought, however, would have found it a suspicious coincidence that the letters of the new member’s name could be derived from the name of the candy company, the theme song in the commercial, and the name of the candy being advertised. They would have also found it suspicious that Aimi’s birthday, February 11, was coincidentally the date Ezaki Glico was founded, and that the company’s slogan “Hitotsubu 300 meter,” sounded all too much like Aimi’s favorite sport (I guess). Not to mention Aimi bore a striking resemblance to six other members.

A lot of work was invested in creating Aimi Eguchi. In addition to the commercial–which still has fans completely fooled–they released a video in which Aimi makes a statement. Take a look at this video showing how she was composited off of the LIVE band members. It’s a damn good job.

 

LulzSec and Anonymous team up

LulzSec and Anonymous team up, plan digital destruction

Though it looked for a moment as if LulzSec and Anonymous might be getting ready for a hacker war against each other, the two groups have instead decided to band together against their real enemies: Governments. 


Over the weekend, LulzSec, a relatively new group of Internet pranksters, announced it would join Anonymous – a much more established, if still loosely affiliated, organization of hackers – to wage war on government sites, under the auspices of an initiative called "Operation Anti-Security."

"We encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path," reads a LulzSec statement. "We fully endorse the flaunting of the word 'AntiSec' on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships."

Another tweet published to the official LulzSec Twitter page, informed the world that "anarchy is now." So this should be interesting. Two groups of hackers, intent on unleashing chaos, all in the name of the public good. For fans of chaos – and dystopian graphic novels such as "V for Vendetta" – this will no doubt be greeted as grand news indeed. For government employees, well, not so much. 

"Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation," LulzSec have announced. "Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood." Because regular cannonfire would obviously not suffice.

LulzSec – short for Lulz Security – already has a string of successful hacks under its belt, including the recent breach of the US Senate site, which LulzSec spokespeople said was done, "just for kicks." Before that, there was "Sownage" – an ongoing war against Sony – and attacks on the Websites of PBS and Fox. (In the latter case, LulzSec exposed a database of "X-Factor" contestants.)

Follow up To Sega Hacked Article. 1.3 Mil

Sega says 1.3 million users affected by cyber attack

TOKYO | Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:28am EDT

(Reuters) - Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.

Names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of users of Sega Pass online network members had been compromised, Sega said in a statement, though payment data such as credit card numbers was safe. Sega Pass had been shut down.

"We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," said Yoko Nagasawa, a Sega spokeswoman, adding it is unclear when the firm would restart Sega Pass.

The attack against Sega, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings that makes game software such as Sonic the Hedgehog as well as slot machines, follows other recent significant breaches including Citigroup, which said over 360,000 accounts were hit in May, and the International Monetary Fund.

The drama surrounding the recent round of video game breaches paled compared to what PlayStation maker Sony Corp experienced following two high-profile attacks that surfaced in April.

Those breaches led to the theft of account data for more than 100 million customers, making it the largest ever hacking of data outside the financial services industry.

Sega Europe, a division of Sega that runs the Sega Pass network, immediately notified Sega and the network customers after it found out about the breach on Thursday, Nagasawa said.

Lulz Security, a group of hackers that has launched cyber attacks against other video game companies including Nintendo, has unexpectedly offered to track down and punish the hackers who broke into Sega's database.

(Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Nick Macfie)

New Game Releases for the week of 6-20-11

Here's the Releases for The week Of  6-20-11

• Dungeon Siege III (PlayStation 3)
• F.E.A.R. 3 (PlayStation 3)
• Shadows of the Damned (PlayStation 3)
• Cars 2: The Video Game (PlayStation 3)

• Dungeon Siege III (Xbox 360)
• F.E.A.R. 3 (Xbox 360)
• Shadows of the Damned (Xbox 360)
• Cars 2: The Video Game (Xbox 360)

• Cars 2: The Video Game (Nintendo Wii)
• Ferrari: The Race Experience (Nintendo Wii)
• Gummy Bears Magic Medallion (Nintendo Wii)

• PSP UMD Dual Pack - Killzone: Liberation and Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (Sony PSP)
• Kadokawa Shoten Steins?Gate for PSP [Japan Import] (Sony PSP)
• Bandai Namco Gundam Memories -Tatakai no Kioku- for PSP [Japan Import] (Sony PSP)
• QuinRose Mother Goose no Himitsu no Yakata for PSP [Japan Import] (Sony PSP)

• Petz Fantasy 3D (Nintendo 3DS)
• DS Cars 2 Character Stylus (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS)
• DualPenSports (Nintendo 3DS)
• CTA Digital 3DS-4CK Nintendo 4-In-1 Cleaning Kit (Nintendo 3DS)Cars 2: The Video Game (Nintendo DS)

• Dungeon Siege III (Windows Vista / 7 / XP)
• F.E.A.R. 3 (Windows Vista / XP)
• Dungeon Siege 3 - Demo [Download] (Windows Vista / 7 / XP)
• Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising Collector's Edition (Windows Vista / 7 / XP)

ACCESSORIES

• G155-Gaming and Entertainment Mobile System (Xbox 360/ PS3 Not included) (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
• DS Cars 2 Character Stylus (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS)
• CTA Digital 3DS-4CK Nintendo 4-In-1 Cleaning Kit (Nintendo 3DS)