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Fed Confirms It Was Hacked By Anonymous
As was reported on Monday, among the numerous files hacked and leaked in the past week by the Hacker group Anonymous was a database of some 4606 regional bankers together with copious amounts of confidential information, which according to Anonymous' twitter account was sourced at the very Federal Reserve, which in turn would imply that the Fed itself had been hacked.
It would also imply that our rhetorical suggestion from nearly two years ago had actually been taken seriously by Anonymous. To wit, from March 2011: "perhaps in the aftermath of the IMF "very major breach" by anonymous hackers, it is really time to make sure all external access points to FedWire and FedLine are truly safe and sound. It will be very sad if it is uncovered that this source of externally accessible portal to hundreds of billions in emergency Fed funding has been somehow compromised. Just imagine the loss of confidence in the system... Why, a global distributed attack would really stretch the Fed's 1,200-strong police force quite thin." Moments ago the Fed confirmed that it had, indeed, been hacked by Anonymous.
From Reuters:
The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion.
The admission, which raises questions about cyber security at the Fed, follows a claim that hackers linked to the activist group Anonymous had struck the Fed on Sunday, accessing personal information of more than 4,000 U.S. bank executives, which it published on the Web.
"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a Fed spokeswoman said.
"Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals effected by the breach had been contacted.
While it appears that neither FedWire nor FedLine had been hacked, an internal database containing highly confidential login, and various other, information for at least some Fed-related services had indeed been compromised.
The Fed declined to identify which website had been hacked. But information that it provided to bankers indicated that the site, which was not public, was a contact database for banks to use during a natural disaster.
The website's purpose is to allow bank executives to update the Fed if their operations have been flooded or otherwise damaged in a storm or other disaster. That helps the Fed to assess the overall impact of the event on the banking system.
Which in turn means the two most critical, externally-accessible money clearing websites in all of the developed world, remain possible security threats.
As for the contents of the leaked database which was removed from its original resting place in yet another hacked DOJ server, they can still be found in one of the various mirrors created in the aftermath of Sunday night's hack, such as this one.
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They were trying to find the off button to the printer, only to see Bernanke jammed the lever at print.
Kind of like Emelio Largo steering the boat into the rocks at the end of Thunderball.
I'm trying to jump off, but every day I wait the water gets sharkier...
Thunderball, the best Bond movie ever!
Early on this site supported the activities of Wikileaks, Anonymous, and whistle blowers in general. Now the rabble boos and jeers.
fuu, stick around to boo and jeer at the rabble;
and feel completely free to throw poo.
Too late. They are above the law now sukka.
Okay for those of you who think anonymous is for real I want you to ask yourself these three questions
1) what have they done that amounts to nothing more than a child's prank than by hacking a few web sites?
2) what advantage does the state have by allowing them to exist?
3) why is it that they pop up when new Internet control legislation is introduced?
I'll throw in a bonus question .. If the state can stage 911 why can't they put together a phony operation like anonymous to scare the sheeple into giving up even more freedoms?
"why can't they put together a phony operation like anonymous to scare the sheeple into giving up even more freedoms?"
Not that you'd care. But I didn't downvote you.
The reason they would not set up such a group is that there is no group. Imagine holding your hand at an agle against a fast flowing stream. Sure you could divert a bit of the current the way you wanted but the overall flow would remain the same. It's not in their best interests on the whole. Granted they may use the name to divert the flow of water to those that may be affected but they gain nothing compared to what they lose.
They cannot control it because everyone and anyone can be part of anonymous. That's why there are the 4chan tossers thinking ddos is cool so they can be a part of it, it's why scriptkiddies rejoice when they manage a simple SQL attack, it's why serious groups (the ones that can actually reverse engineer a program to create a crack use it as part of their outside interests but it would be below them on the scene), it's why people on various wargame sites that have an objective to take over 'x' amount of computers use the name. It is everyone and anyone.
Gov can use it, certainly, but if they were going so they are but a small portion and in very directed ways.
I do appreciate the way you think a lot of the times but in this case the logistics of such an edevour would do the powers that be more harm than good if they were the ones setting it up.
Edit to answer your questions directly:
1) what have they done that amounts to nothing more than a child's prank than by hacking a few web sites?
Bugger all. Because most of them can't. Without meaning to sound harsh (and I honestly hope you don't take it that way) but infilrating systems with any real info is harder than navigating a 3D rendered image like you see on the movies.
2) what advantage does the state have by allowing them to exist?
They can't stop it existing because it is everyone and no-one. The state knows most are just useless wastes of space that could hack their ways out of a paper bag.
3) why is it that they pop up when new Internet control legislation is introduced?
They were around WAAAAAY longer than that mate.
Cheers
Hate replying to my own reply but so be it.
I was hanging around the same BBS's in the mid-late 80's in Melbourne that Assange was on. When having a 2400 baud modem was ELiTE. *That* is the bastard - if anyone - who is a controlled asset. He was batshit crazy back then and I can't see why things would have changed.He was smart... very smart.. but impressionable.
He's a centralised point for dissemination of information that the sheeple think is legit. He's met with Gov officials from all over. I could go on and on about that bastard - wikileaks was a splinter from another site that already did everything the media is purporting that he is doing.
The more i think about it, i belive you're right that 'anonymous' is just an internet version of al qaeda. while 'they' may have started out as an independent hacking group, the fact that they have 'hit' a couple token soft targets without any real impact tells me someone got the bright idea to use them as a bogeyman to further internet restricting legislation.
Anonymous attack on GoDaddy servers was probably made by the CIA ... conspiracists see false flag everywhere.
Congrulations, FED!
You were hacked by the CIA.
If true, hell will surely follow.
Ron Paul should invite anonymous over for dinner
One Nigel Farage in the hand is worth two Ron Pauls in the bush.
Anonymous need to throw a trojan into the Federal Reserve, it's the only way to keep that facility from procreating into a gigantic Xerox machine mess.
What makes you think they didn't do that and more? if they could crack the authentication servers, my friend, they pretty much own the place.
Not gonna happen. All the authentication servers do is check a key and validate it. Hey - here is my public key (and it's stored all over the place):
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Good luck being able to read anything encypted to it. This attack was nothing of the sort
News is they got passwords not public keys. Inconsistencies in the media dribble, such as "only got into an 'internal' website" ... ummm, wha?! INTERNAL, so how??? No one stores passwords. Does not happen any more, ever. Someone inserted code, redirected logins. You know, people being people they use the same damn password for everything, right? If they did that insertion, what else did they get/do/insert? Paranoia runs in my line, I come by it naturally. The details of the dribble lead one to other conclusions then are being told to the public. How long has this been going on??? Months? Year, more? Maybe they can't tell. Ghost Busters ain't gonna help ya know.
during a natural disaster.
you mean like Lehman collapse or derivateve implosion?
"We have been discovered, flee immediately"
So why aren't Gold and Silver rallying and JPM being busted yet?
Anonymous is clearly stealing the wrong documents or doesn't know how to interpret them.
Can't you stage an Anonymous shareholder revolt and get them to become a subsidiary of Zero Hedge, Tyler?
Thanks in advance.
You still don't get it!
There is no anonymous. It's everyone and anyone. It's no more a group than calling several biker gangs who would knock each other off a group. "hey they all bikers so they all part of the same crew righ?t" It's it nothing and it is everything. It's merely a name. A worthless one at that
It could be they are as disorganized as the Occupy movement, surely they sleep with one eye open.
It could be they are as disorganized as the Occupy movement
That is the entire point. There is no organisation and anyone can be 'anonymous' which is why the whole group on the whole is a group of pussies. No-one with anything to say has anything to do with 'them' (since everyone of us is them) unless its to to release shit they don't don't to release under their own group. It aint Rocket Science.
(Yawn). This is the equivalent of high-schoolers tee-peeing the house of a local big wig.
(Still, had they hacked into the Greespan Fed, they would have discovered he had a pet goldfish named "Bubbles".)
As a starting point. All those who are interested to learn about computer security, programming, cracking, cryptography etc in a FUN LEGAL way checkout http://www.bright-shadows.net/ it really is harder than the media makes it look (but much more fun too).. Am in the top 50 would like to see you there. Anyone who get past say 100 challenges would be more than happy to help them any hints they need
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/broad-powers-seen-for-obama-in-cybe...
Anyone else see a pattern developing here?
Are your sure that the German's are not behind this??? Thye would really like to know if their gold is in the vault or not!
Was there any German's Banks in this info released???
The German people want to know where their gold is at and when they are going to get it back!
Future report: "At the second attempt to hack, Fed database immediately notified government which dispatched a nearby drone to the IP address. No survivors."
Another invented enemy (that may have at one time really been an enemy) whereby the Federal government/NSA saves the day.
Fuck I get tired of this shit. The biggest enemy is the ego of government. They ruin a lot.
In a move to tighten security, Sorento pulled his birth certificate off of Kenyan servers.
There is a war going on. Legions of gray and soulless beings called bankers are trying to turn this planet into a big prison.
Anonymous are the soldiers fighting against them among other activists. Everyone who bothers to get involved by supplying information to those who look for knowledge on the internet or backs up those who do could be an Anonymous.
The main reason why Iceland won the Icesave debate and avoided complete destruction was because confidential information regarding the issue were leaked to Wikileaks and then published by them.
Those were contracts that were being negotiated in secrecy and emails that revealed the nature of the people involved, all of this was crucial to the battle that the Icelandic people were fighting.
The FBI was in Iceland collecting information last year, 8 agents arrived on august 24, most likely to build a case against Wikileaks and hackers. The minster of interior kicked them out of the country, but for some reason they took one Icelandic hacker with them and interrogated him for a few days before releasing him.
That may have had something to do with the Icesave matter.
I think that if US authorities go after activists like Anonymous, it will grow into a Hydra, they cut of one head and 2 heads pop out, this can go on until the fight becomes very uneven.
The US govt should see what is going on as a warning light indicating a major malfunction in their own camp.
That's where the search lights and the bloodhounds should be.
I am not a computer guy myself though, i am more into books.
You could be sitting on the edge of the world, as isolated as anyone could possibly be and still make a difference.
All you need to do is to know what you want, what you don't want, and have a internet connection.
Get Ready Bears.
Wile E. Coyote overdue sell off awaits as SPX daily & weekly charts continue their protracted topping process from current extreme levels.
http://trader618.com
"The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion."
Bernanke told congress he would not monetize the debt. He lied. I do not trust the FED proclamation that no crtical functioons of the FED were not affected.
Among other, the pattern is developing like this...
On the other news:
Malware Attacks Hit News Websites – Foretelling Cyber False Flag?
Monday, February 4, 2013
Malware alerts struck the web last night and this morning, in a preview of what Internet users have to look forward to once the real cyber false flag hits the Net. Real and fake malware will create chaos, as users get blocked from their favorite websites.
Regular visitors to BIN may have noticed that we had some of those cute red screens courtesy of your browsers (Safari, Chrome and Firefox) on our site last night and this morning alerting you that "you'd better not go there".
Has anyone else noticed what's happened to the internet? Sites with edgy alternative content or conservative points of view get hacked more often, and in this case not hacked, but effectively taken down by scary looking warning messages. This type of censorship has been going on for years with email. If you want to keep a lid on the news, you just signup for a site's email, then send it to one of the 50 self appointed "spam police" sites and they'll blacklist a site. It usually takes a day or two for things to return to normal and get off the blacklist and by then the damage is done. The same thing is now happening to web sites.
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