[AusNOG] Anonymous Threatens to Expose Data from an Australian ISP

[Brad Peczka]

Looks like the victim was AAPT:

"It was brought to our attention by our service provider, Melbourne IT, at approximately 9.30pm last night that there had been a security incident and unauthorised access to some AAPT business customer data stored on servers at Melbourne IT," the telco said in a statement.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/309902,breaking-aapt-confirms-data-breach.aspx

Regards,
-Brad.

On 25/07/2012, at 9:28 AM, "Jason Leschnik" <leschnik at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think the skills of one really represent the many in this
> case. As we all know in any group of considerable size the skill level
> varies in typically a normal distribution, you have the bulk of noobs
> who are FBI fodder and use the LOIC to do the heavy lifting of attacks
> but i would assume those who are skilled, are very skilled. The last
> thing you want is one of those guys pen testing your border,
> especially if you give them a reason...
> 
> I think this is a good time (as said before) to check your Internet
> facing machines, update them, patch up any firewall configs. Please
> remember this is anonymous, all it takes is a hacktavist working at
> your local <insert favorite vendor here> to discover a Zero-day
> release it to the wild and exploit your network.
> 
> There is no real central group for this legion so attacks can
> propagate from outside & _inside_ your networks.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Christopher Pollock
> <chris at ionetworks.com.au> wrote:
>> Brad really summed it up IMO.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jason Leschnik.
> 
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