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

[Damian Guppy]

Wonder if that has any implications for customers of MelbourneIT in
general...

--Damian

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > [m] 0432 35 4224
> > [U@] jml974 at uow.edu.au
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