Anonymous Hackers Attack BART Website

[youtalkcock]

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Hackivist group Anonymous attacked San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) website, myBART.org, on Sunday. As of Monday, the site is still down, with a message that reads, “This site is currently under renovation.”

The attack came after BART blocked cell service to thwart a protest on Thursday.

Calling BART’s decision an act of cellphone censorship, Anonymous launched its #OpBART campaign and took to Twitter to rally supporters.

On Saturday, Anonymous promised that it would shut down BART’s website on 12 p.m. PT on Sunday. Making good of its promise, it shut down myBART.org, a satellite site used for marketing purposes. The group defaced the site with Anonymous logos and released personal contact information for at least 2,400 of the sites’ 55,000 users, including names, addresses, phone numbers and email accounts.

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</center>Prior to the attack, the group posted BART contact information in a post on Tumblr, urging its members and followers to bombard BART with emails and faxes. It also called for Twitter followers to file complaints with the FCC.

The hacker group released a statement on Sunday via a YouTube video that explained the organization’s reasoning for the attack. Here’s an except from the statement and the video (embedded below):

“In the Bay Area, we’ve seen people gagged, and once more, Anonymous will attempt to show those engaging in censorship what it feels like to be silenced. #Operation BART is an operation geared toward balance — toward learning. You do not censor people because they wish to speak out against the wrongful occurrences around them. The Bay Area Rapid Transit has made the conscious decision of ordering various cell phone companies to terminate services for the downtown area inhibiting those in the area from using cell phones — even in the case of an emergency.”

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To complement its other actions planned against BART, Anonymous is planning a protest set for 5 p.m. PT on Monday at the Civic Center BART station.

The group is organizing via its @YourAnonNews Twitter account and other social and mobile methods. According to tweets from the account, the protest will be livestreamed via Qik and the organizers will have a mobile hotspot set up.

Anonymous explained on its blog, “We sincerely hope that this series of actions will serve as a warning to BART and every public organization in the USA to NOT engage in this sort of dangerous and human rights violating behavior.”


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[Rogue Trader]

Bro if you like hackers I recommend this book to you:

It talks about the hacking movement in the late 80s/early 90s. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was one of the top hackers in the world then. Gripping piece of investigative journalism. I bought it to read on the plane and could not put it down..

the book can be downloaded free on the web..

http://www.manybooks.net/titles/dreyfussetext03undgd10.html

 

[youtalkcock]

Bro if you like hackers I recommend this book to you:

Thanks dude. I can recommend you to a hack forum but .... :p

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160747831104

# HackForums.net

Since HackForums.net got hacked by some Arabian Asshole, it got hacked again by the T-T34M. The admin did alot of things and fixed it but he decided to close the forum because he do not make anymore money from that forum, its was payjerks fault.

Great moments were spilled in that forum, great tools and tuts.
I just reached 1000 posts and it was gone, all my 39 reps.
since that moment on i was bored and so decided to make my own site with a realy helpfull content.

But i heard theres someone going to buy it and create the old HackForums back but with different admin, but the admin is selling the domain for 10 000$ !!! this is sparta!!!

R.I.P - HackForums.net - 30 Sept 2009
Best Admin : Omniscient (Jesse Labrocca)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2D-Y7utaJfIJ:www.hackforums.net/+Hackforum&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=sg&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com.sg

:p

 

[Rogue Trader]

no lah I don't want to even enter hacker sites like 2600.. don't know what virus/worm I can kenna.

I used to know some middle eastern students in australia who were brilliant techies. they told me how they used to have mini hacking attacks with israel. how to fight against people like that?

 

[vamjok]

talk about all these. i heard one la dunno true a not.

a lot of those software that we use that has keygen made by these hacker group (be it for games or professional software) that seems harmless (real working one not those plain worms or horses) are actually use to make our computer part of their botnet. Best part we might not realise it.

 

[Rogue Trader]

talk about all these. i heard one la dunno true a not.

a lot of those software that we use that has keygen made by these hacker group (be it for games or professional software) that seems harmless (real working one not those plain worms or horses) are actually use to make our computer part of their botnet. Best part we might not realise it.

yes be careful about downloading files from the net. even shared movie files are not safe. hackers can embed a logic to drain your processing power for their own hacking activities like scanning/attacking. that's when you notice that your PC is slower. some hackers claim they have a zombie army of thousands of unsuspecting PCs. scary right?

 

[youtalkcock]

talk about all these. i heard one la dunno true a not.

a lot of those software that we use that has keygen made by these hacker group (be it for games or professional software) that seems harmless (real working one not those plain worms or horses) are actually use to make our computer part of their botnet. Best part we might not realise it.

But you have to apply the patch in order for the application to work and the uploader may highlight to you that your antivirus will detect a trojan. It all depends whether you still wanna go for it or skip. I always check for the byte size of a program, from the original size to the one that is bundled. If it's big that it's likely you have a bonus application in there. :p

 

[youtalkcock]

no lah I don't want to even enter hacker sites like 2600.. don't know what virus/worm I can kenna.

I used to know some middle eastern students in australia who were brilliant techies. they told me how they used to have mini hacking attacks with israel. how to fight against people like that?

Ok so how many layers of Firewall do you need? :p

A couple of years back i had a PC for means testing. For testing of games to programs to testing of viruses to entering warez sites. I used the software below. :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_(software)