UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com) 61
An anonymous reader writes: British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk, in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. We mentioned the first of the three arrests on Monday; a second arrest took place Thursday, as related by Ars Technica, of a 16-year-old from west London. The latest arrest is of a 20-year-old from Staffordshire.
the citizens of the UK can't be trusted (Score:1)
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No, I do my killing with a firearm. I do my skinning with a knife. I also don't do my butchering in the kitchen. In fact, like firearms, knives are fine tools that can be misused. I carry a Victorinox. It's never killed anything. It has opened packages, cut cable, cut rope, carved wood, gutted fishies, and many more things. It has never killed anything.
I realize you're trolling or stupid but, well, somebody has to respond. I have a whole bunch of firearms that have never, not even when I wasn't looking, gon
Re: the citizens of the UK can't be trusted (Score:4, Insightful)
Outlawing guns only keeps them from lawful people. Criminals still get them anyway.
Guns are extremely rarely used in crime in the UK. Criminals know that if they appear anywhere with a gun, all the police over a very wide radius will descend on them like a ton of bricks; it isn't worth it.
I would have no idea how to get a gun if I decided to commit a crime with one, and most criminals, who are petty criminals anyway, would have no idea either. Even if such a small criminal, a house burglar say, happened to know a serious criminal gang who could possible provide him with one, they would be extremely unlikely to provide it to him at any price, not wanting to be linked to him. Their attitude would be "WTF do you need a gun for, just to burgle a house?". Because if the police found anyone with a gun, they would get the provider's name out of him.
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England is a conquered country, run by the invaders. It has been since 1066 AD. All of the society and political systems are built on that.
England is now a "Gun Free Zone", and all of the shootings in the news have been in gun free zones!
What we need to outlaw are Gun Free Zones.
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You can use them to get food or as protection from others with guns.
Hunting is a separate issue, and is associated with rich twats slaughtering wildlife for fun here in the UK, rather than someone killing their dinner.
And you only need protection from others with guns in places where (most) others have guns.
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Guns themselves don't kill people. Guns don't possess motives to do so in and of themselves. People do. Unless a gun drops and fires say, by accident? Guns do not kill. Again: People do pulling the trigger aiming at another person. Get your shit straight. Learn to think critically instead of being a brainwashed little slave that's unable to think for themselves.
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The homicide rate per 100k in the US is 3.55, but only 0.05 in the UK so the fact is that we can't trust the people with guns. Can't trust the people with guns.
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Lol. I'm willing to be locked up if the same happens to the USAnians too. We'll take one for the (world) team.
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Eek; touched a nerve :#
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If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.
So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.
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If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.
So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.
Very few people are capable of murdering someone with their bare hands.
In increasing order of ease of killing, you have blunt instruments, knives, swords and guns. It is far easier to kill someone with a gun, not least because you can do it at a distance. And no, you can't walk around in public with a loaded crossbow in England either.
It's My Life (Score:2)
Hmmmm (Score:5, Interesting)
And that is why I find it difficult to believe all the claims of "Chinese hackers" who are "attacking" sites.
Teenagers can crack a telecom. It isn't because the kids are that good. It's because so many organizations are that bad at basic security.
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Maybe... We don't know what these people's involvement was. They could just be useful idiots from 8chan co-opted into the DDOS attack. There are tools like LOIC that people post to 8chan so others can join a DDOS attack in a single click. The software is pre-configured with the target, but of course half the time when they think they are hammering some evil feminist they are actually helping someone blackmail a commercial site.
They could also just be people whose computers were infected with a remote access
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And I care why? (Score:2)
At some point, someone will have to explain what TalkTalk is, how it being hacked is relevant to IT (why do we care?), etc.
All I have is a website / service being hacked by some teenagers...News @ 11.
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Quite a large one. Lots of customers. We'd really expect a company this size to be able to resist some teenage script kiddies. The nature of the breech means that a lot of customer details have been compromised.
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They are one of the big four telecoms / internet companies in the UK. The others are BT, Sky and Virgin. I believe they are the second largest in the internet market, Sky is bigger because it also does satellite TV.