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BY MEGAN FAROKHMANESH
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Who’s next on the hacking block? Infamous group Anonymous is at it again -- and not even international military alliances are safe anymore.
NewsTsar has more:
ANCHOR: “The hacking group Anonymous appears to have hacked into NATO. It’s unclear they were able to obtain in their raid, but they’ve already published a few documents.”
Anonymous apparently broke into NATO's servers via the same technique used in other recent attacks.
“Anonymous said the data was harvested via ‘simple injection,’ which usually refers to inputting malformed data in Web-based forms and seeing if the back-ended database responds with information.”
But Anonymous is keeping a modest hold on its prize. Besides the initial PDF file posted to prove its claim -- files have been kept under wrap. The
hacktivist group
tweeted earlier today,
“We are sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible.”
Anonymous is holding to its no-publish promise -- but that’s doesn’t mean it isn’t rubbing salt in the hacking wound. The group released another link to a NATO file -- this one not restricted but -quote “ironic”.
“It describes security procedures within NATO. Well, seems nobody ever read them.”
But just how juicy is the stolen info?
The Register says the “restricted” label is misleading.
“To someone unfamiliar with NATO...that sounds impressive. In fact, it means the documents are insignificant: scarcely any different in practice from ones marked ‘UNCLAS’ for unclassified.”
Significant or not, NATO is still investigating claims of infiltration. A spokesperson said...
“NATO is aware that a hackers group has released what it claims to be NATO classified documents on the Internet...NATO security experts are investigating these claims. We strongly condemn any leak of classified documents, which can potentially endanger the security of NATO allies, armed forces and citizens.”
The attack comes hot on the heels of Tuesday’s detainment of more than 20 people suspected to be involved in Anonymous. So far- investigators worldwide have arrested more than 60 suspected Anonymous and Lulzsec group members.
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