Non Tipping Pastor Bell's Website Hacked After Reddit Backlash

Meanwhile in Reddit-land it only takes 2 days for a pic to go viral, public apologies made on msm, and backlash from hackers.

Huffington Post - Anonymous Hacks MIT, U.S. Department Of Justice In Aaron Swartz Tribute

Internet activists with the group Anonymous claimed credit for hacking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website Sunday, in memoriam of the Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who recently committed suicide.


Reddit users reported the entire mit.edu domain was down, including their school email service. The backup emergency site, emergency.mit.net, was reportedly down too. MIT's website was restored Sunday evening, as Anonymous admitted they were behind the attack.


"Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing — an ideal that we should all support," Anonymous' said in a statement, which replaced MIT's website.

Full Article on Huffington Post

Stop Using MD5 - POC MD5 Hash Crack PHP Script

This is just a proof of concept of how a malicious hacker can get your password very quickly using a short script if your security is based on md5 hashing. Wake up people start using better encryption and pay attention to password strength, dictionary words for passwords are crackable in seconds. I'm not sharing the code on this one just in case some stupid kid wants to do something equally stupid with it.


http://youtu.be/ElS0ml74HqU

Picture frame that scrapes train times from the web

Being someone who takes the train everyday this is beyond geeky fun it's actually damn utilitarian. I might have to make this a secondary project after I finish my Arduino binary clock.

Steubenville Covers For Its High School Football Stars/Rapists, Anonymous Strikes

New information has been leaked about the Steubenville football rape incident by Anonymous following the recent defacement of rollredroll.com by a subcell of Anonymous by the handle of Knightsec. They've even have a disclaimer up right now due to the defacement denouncing any claims made against them.(click for full size)



Alexander Abad-Santos from the theatlanticwire.com reports a recent interview:

If not everyone believes the rape happened, aren't the town's football allegiances going to get in the way of a fair trial?

Well, yes, there's this from the Times report: "the county prosecutor and the judge in charge of handling crimes by juveniles recused themselves from the case because they had ties to the football team."

Wait, is this some sort of cover-up?

Well, that's why the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous — and, more specifically, one of its cells known as Knightsec — got involved. The hackers, and their partners at the site Local Leaks, are "giving a voice to the victim of this horrible crime" by rounding up new information that the police haven't been able to — or at least that hasn't been made publicly available in advance of next month's trial. They seem to believe that there are more people involved, that there are more victims, that the accused are getting special treatment because they are football players, and that there's a bigger group of boys involved, which Anonymous has dubbed the "Rape Crew." Oh, and they've set up Occupy Steubenville protests too.

And all this denial continues even after video footage has been leaked showing pretty obvious admission of guilt. This is just disgusting.
http://youtu.be/22UsHZXPi7Q

Anonymous Targets Ohio Football Team After Violent Rape Of Local Girl

After getting little to no response to a truly heinous rape, Anonymous and various denizens of the internet decide to take action. You can see the growing Reddit thread here. Anonymous has recently left a video response about their new operation, OpRollRedRoll.

"This is a warning shot to the school faculty [Steubenville High School], the parents of those involved and those involved especially. A preliminary 'docs' is being released on some of those involved, while a full size docs of everyone involved including names, social security numbers addresses, relatives and phone numbers is being is being compiled as you watch this video, of every single member of the football team, those involved, the coaches, the principal and more. These docs will be released unless all accused parties come forward by New Year's Day and issue a public apology to the girl and her family. Make no mistake, all you need is a Google search engine to realize we are serious in what we do. You can hide no longer, you have attracted the attention of the hive. We cannot sit by idly and watch a group of young men who will turn to rape as a game or sport get the pass because of athletic ability and small town luck. You now have the world looking directly at you ... current principal and faculty, you would be wise not to shield the guilty."

As I am writing this I googled the event and the highschool's football team website rollredroll.com and Anon's are apparently already at work.

Check the title and description. The site itself seemed relatively intact but this story is still unfolding. You can check out First Coast News take on the story here

OpRollRedRoll Press Release

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s089FjJ0GSM

Iranian Computers Targeted By New Malicious Data Wiper Program

Dubbed Batchwiper, the malware systematically wipes any drive partitions starting with the letters D through I, along with any files stored on the Windows desktop of the user who is logged in when it's executed, according to security researchers who independently confirmed the findings. The reports come seven months after an investigation into another wiper program targeting the region led to the discovery of Flame, the highly sophisticated espionage malware reportedly designed by the US and Israel to spy on Iran. Wiper, as the earlier wiping program is known, shared a file-naming convention almost identical to those used by the state-sponsored Stuxnet and Duqu operations, an indication it may have been related, security researchers said.

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Hackers target Westboro Baptist Church after Newtown threat

After church leaders announce plans to protest at site of school massacre, Anonymous posts the personal information for dozens of members of the extremist group, including names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers.

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A Hexapod Robot Made from Scrap

Finally my compulsive saving of random scrap metal can be put to use.

Ada Lovelace

Known as the first historical programmer and a personal hero of mine.

Have some computational history [:

Hackumanitarianism

Much agreed, ethics are needed on all sides of any political agenda. Script kiddies and hackers that screw over average people with no good reason are just as fucked as the people they are so angsty about.

How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly

Apparently hackers found a way to bypass Tumblr's security by hiding malicious javascript code into posts using the data uri scheme.

It appears that the worm took advantage of Tumblr's reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged into Tumblr would automatically reblog the infectious post if they visited one of the offending pages.

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PHP Code To Binary And Back, Eval'd

Have no clue why the fuck you'd want to do this except for some rudimentary obfuscation, but I sure as hell had fun playing around with it.
[sourcecode language="php"]
<?php
function binary_chunk($str)
{
$func = str_split($str);
$binary_chunk = '';
$l = count($func);
$x = 0;
foreach ($func as $k => $chr) {
$binary_chunk .= decbin(ord($chr));
($x == $l - 1) ?: $binary_chunk .= ' ';
$x++;
}

return $binary_chunk;
}

function decode_binary_chunk($bin)
{
$decoded_binary = '';
$binary_chunk = explode(' ',$bin);
foreach ($binary_chunk as $chunk) {
$decoded_binary .= chr(bindec($chunk));
}
return $decoded_binary;
}

$binary_chunk = binary_chunk('function add($a,$b){return $a+$b;}');
echo "\nFunction chunked to binary:\n";
echo $binary_chunk;
echo "\n\n";

$decoded_binary = decode_binary_chunk($binary_chunk);
echo "Binary chunks glued together:\n";
echo $decoded_binary;
echo "\n\n";

eval($decoded_binary);
echo "Result of decoded function add(1,1):\n";
$x = add(1,1);
echo "$x\n\n";
[/sourcecode]

Sample Output

Ex-Malware Developer Speaks At DEFCON

http://youtu.be/k2mdUcOXW6I

Arduino Micro Line Following Robot

Fuck yeah!
http://youtu.be/928xqJr2cs8

Hak5 - Occupineapple

I love that they bring up the topic of funny wifi network names seeing as how I have `cunty_mcfierce` in my neighborhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBfn9niCwbc&feature=share&list=SPW5y1tjAOzI3Gm8cQtN86qNJgnuvi47mF