Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities (softpedia.com) 82
An anonymous reader writes: A man was arrested after trying to sell Hollywood movie scripts and social security numbers to an undercover DHS agent. The hacker known online as Jeff Moxey managed to hack the computers of 130 celebrities, from where he stole, besides scripts, nude pics and sexually-explicit videos. "The scope of the crime here is potentially quite large," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Greenberg said, adding that the investigation began a few weeks ago.
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Yeah, pics or it didn't happen.
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Yeah, pics or it didn't happen.
You sick bastard ... oh, *that* kind of hacking. I thought this was a Charles Manson kind of story.
Obviously Important (Score:1)
Just ignore those two million target customers, the plethora of IRS defrauds, virtually every medical coverage provider and well literally five thousand more important and larger breaches.
At least they have less time to spy on the public if they have to track down everyone who creeps on j lo.
FBI was all over Target, perpetrators in prison (Score:5, Informative)
> Just ignore those two million target customers
Ignore it, rather than thoroughly investigating and catching the perpetrators like they did? I don't know about the outcome in every single case, but I have researched and written about Target and TJ Maxx. Those feds did their job. Several federal agencies and some state are very active in investigating the types of cases you mentioned. Also, I've spoken to the FBI team primarily interested in what seem to be small-time attacks, who track patterns of malware on consumer desktops etc. If you let them know about attacks you have experienced you may not personally hear back a out the prosecution, but they do include your report in their investigation of trends.
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I was actually thinking of Albert Gonzalez and the rest of ShadowCrew, arrested for TJ Maxx, Dave & Busters, and others.
Indeed in the Target case the original perpetrators seem to be in Russia and Ukraine, so arrests have been of individuals with dozens to hundreds of counterfeit cards in their possession at the time of their arrest, who were responsible for anywhere between tens of thousands to millions in fraudulent transactions with the Target data. So still not insignificant, though they probably w
forward as an ATTACHMENT (for full headers) (Score:2)
Forward the email as an ATTACHMENT, or otherwise ensure full headers are included. Printing would also work, but be sure all the headers are included. There will be 6-30 lines headers, some of which start with the word "Received:". The "received" headers are important.
never met an American programmer or sysadmin (Score:2)
If you think having Americans do it will make it secure, you clearly haven't seen much American-written code. Hint - Microsoft is an American company, Linux is from Finland and all over the world.
H1-B abuse is a problem ; a problem unrelated to security. US programmers are actually LESS cognizant of long-term consequences and security than are the Chinese, Japanese, or eastern Europe.
Security has not kept pace with technology (Score:5, Insightful)
There have been examples when "share my day" services for social media sites have shared naked pictures, publicly, automatically, as a matter of course. The settings of the phone's application were to share a sample of pictures automatically. That's STUPID.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity?
Re:Security has not kept pace with technology (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Security has not kept pace with technology (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know it could replace the rickroll...
Re:Security has not kept pace with technology (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a failure of industry, not a failure of individuals. Do we require drivers to be mechanics? Fliers to be aeronautical engineers?
Starting from zero, it is astoundingly complicated to maintain personal information security--we don't see it like fish don't see water. Industry's response can't be to limit the market for connected devices to themselves.
Re: Security has not kept pace with technology (Score:1)
They're specifically not talking about who is at fault - they're talking about protecting your assets (in the case of celebs their public image) from known risks.
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so... you were asking for it?
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No, but we require drivers to know how to operate their vehicle safely so they are no threat to themselves or others.
Since you can't kill someone with a computer by being a complete idiot, any moron is allowed to use one and hook it to the internet.
If you want to find a analogy, try one where someone using the item in question doesn't require to be LICENSED to use it.
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These celebs are fine at operating their tech, as evidenced by their growing collection of self-nudes.
Try to imagine a licensing course of study that will protect against this kind of attack. How quickly does it turn into an 2-year IT security certificate? That's way way way too much to ask of your market.
A different analogy that might be more relevant for you is card-skimmers. What do you really need to reliably ID a good card skimmer? An engineering degree and about 5 years of experience with electromecha
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These pseudo celebrities are nothing but fabrications of PR=B$ studios, with a manage public personality used to sell products that in reality has very little to do with their true narcissistic self serving nature. Which when exposed, disrupts their ability to believably lie about the products they are meant to sell and thus ending their career of self serving deceit, so says family man comedian Bill Cosby, hey, hey, hey, want some candy :|. So exposing pseudo celebrity lies is a crime because it impacts a
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A different analogy that might be more relevant for you is card-skimmers. What do you really need to reliably ID a good card skimmer? An engineering degree and about 5 years of experience with electromechanical product design. Is it reasonable for the bank to require us to ID them?
Actually I identify card skimmers based on first knowing what my bank's ATMs look like, and secondly being willing to pick-at anything on the face of the ATM that doesn't look right. To protect myself from card skimmers at other places I obscure the keypad when I enter my PIN to make it harder for even a skimmed card to be used, and I still inspect the machine for the antitampering stickers, the condition of the locks, and any bits that are not firmly affixed and might have been added by someone.
It's no
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Your approach requires dedication and a good memory, for everyone. Good for you, but the burden should be on the banks and providers of payment terminals.
Most ATMs here in the Netherlands show a picture on the screen of what the card slot (and anti-tamper protrusions) should look like. That's a cheap and effective solution. A bigger problem used to be the payment terminals in stores and train stations, of which there are too many models to remember what they should look like. But with the transition to chip
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To stay in the analogy, they know how to hit the accelerator and how to point the steering wheel. More or less. They may know how to operate the brakes. Do they know how to parallel park? Or do they just drop the car wherever they are and then complain that it ain't there anymore because they not only left it in the middle of the road but with the key in the ignition and the gear in Drive?
There is still a bit of a difference between knowing some operations of a machine and how to operate it responsibly and
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No celebrities have ever done anything but benefit from leaked sex videos and naked pictures.
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Crack, Hookers and Alcohol.
Three major reasons for recording explicit scenes on their devices.
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Political leaders bemoan the lack of US police access. City, state and federal police agencies get a lot of press coverage about how their top experts can get into domestic consumer networks.
News stories mostly cover how a warrant was used just to get an ip from social media.
To the wider public that is a sign of good networking products.
The vast amounts of paralle
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Because despite appearances celebrities are human beings as well. They probably crave real relationships and intimacy more than most, in fact.
And to be fair, when the last big leak happened, it wasn't their fault. They took the proper security measures. Apple screwed up by not rate limiting guesses for account recovery questions and not enabling two factor authentication for icloud.
Apple said it was secure. It wasn't.
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because rubbing your clit in front of a mirror lands you a role in De Niro movie.
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Great headline there (Score:4, Funny)
Right outta Hitchcock
The fappening part two (Score:4, Funny)
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This post doesn't reek of advertisement at all.
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The gift that says "I love you".
I was initially looking at Fitbits and Android based devices, but these are ugly and not special. They just mean nothing.
For this Christmas, I recommend "Apple Watch", if you care about someone special.
Good idea! That way she gets to see your message every day when she charges it. Or even more often, if she actually uses it.
Until the new version comes out in a few months, and you'll bend over and fork $500 more to buy it, and hers ends up in a landfill in a third world country.
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I have a highly intelligent senior engineer friend with one. I asked him what it does he just stared at me. I said, "So, it's just supposed to look expensive?". No comment. I think that sums up most of what Apple does.
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One actual use case: a lot of waiters, waitresses, and other service workers are not allowed to check their phones at work. They are, however, allowed to wear a watch and glance at it.
Somebody recently told me his girlfriend loved hers because she could read messages at work as they came in.
Where he went wrong (Score:2, Insightful)
Where he went wrong was he got greedy.
If he had just dumped them online, instead of trying to make a profit, then he likely wouldn't have been caught.
Now he's in jail, and the data is gone. Thanks a lot, asshole.
DHS? (Score:2, Insightful)
Why the hell would DHS being involved? This seems more like an FBI thing. I don't exactly understand how this is a homeland security issue.
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Sure they are.
They're also making bank off marijuana coming from Mexico, if you believed the advertisements after 9/11.
Meanwhile, nobody wants to say shit to Turkey - a real source of cash - because we're one big happy NATO family. Or Saudi Arabia, because our presidents all seem to love bowing and manly kisses.
DHS is involved because the Patriot Act and accompanying security theatre was only ever meant for one purpose: plain old law enforcement.
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Which just reinforces the question, how is celebrity nudes or movie script drafts an "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" issue?
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Why the hell would DHS being involved? This seems more like an FBI thing. I don't exactly understand how this is a homeland security issue.
Good thing the perp wasn't Muslim. DHS allowed the San Bernadino attack to happen, yet they're all over this. Listen to the interview of Philip Haney (near the bottom of the page in two parts).
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g... [breitbart.com]
Very telling as to where US government priorities are.
Strat
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Do you realize that "to Brietbart" has entered the lexicon as a verb that means "To lie about by taking statements out of context and/or maliciously editing" after willfully serving as an outlet for James O'Keefe? A thinking person would sooner trust the National Inquirer's latest report on BatBoy.
That said, the DHS is the worst kind of administrative cancer: Instead of overseeing things and keeping them working together (like an administration is supposed to), it has instead become corruptly obsessed with perpetuating infinite amounts of red tape, preventing useful work and demoralizing everyone. You can trace the collapse of the Secret Service to the day the DHS ate it and smothered it in red tape.
Facts are facts regardless of who reports them.
Are you saying that Breitbart made up the interview with former DHS official and whistle-blower Philip Haney? Had him read a script?
Sounds to me more like DHS damage control shills on the job.
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Punishment to fit the crime (Score:2)
$20 says he gets double the sentence he would have if he had broken into a house, cracked a safe and stolen said goods.
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$50 says he gets at least twice the sentence he had gotten for hacking into medical data of a million people.
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities .. (Score:2)
By any chance would these 'computers' be running on Microsoft Windowsâ.
What with? (Score:2)
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities
What with, an axe?
I hope Katie Hopkins was on the list...
Death Penalty (Score:1)
Execute the bastard. Or simply toss him into prison for 10 yeras per hack, so 1300 years. With no parole. In Solitary
Go home DHS. You're drunk. (Score:1)
And why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in this particular crime? Will the unauthorized release of a movie script endanger the general public?
Pfaw!