[AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

[Damian Guppy]

I personally think this attack is gaining the guy more attention than the
original interview on ABC itself, the first i heard of this dutch guy was
from the attack. Seems kind of counter-productive of what the attacker was
going after...

--Damian


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Aqius <aqius at lavabit.com> wrote:

> OT, but hacking the ABC site (essentially attacking freedom of speech via
> threatening the media through mass abuse of Australian website members)
> seems a fairly full on approach... And one that is likely to lead to
> hostility from the victims towards the rather than empathy. Did anyone see
> the show - I’m curious how full on this guy is?****
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Giles Pollock
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:43
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked****
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> Looks like SHA1, some of the hashes match SHA1 rainbow tables if you do a
> quick google search... Hope ABC is locking down and letting people know to
> change their passwords on other services...****
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:*
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> However if they are using a common unsalted hash like MD5 then it is
> trivial to use a rainbow table to get the passwords in seconds.****
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> --Damian****
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:*
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]****
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> > I haven't looked at the dump but I won't be surprised if the passwords
> are
> > trivially decryptable if they're encrypted at all. 1Password is your
> friend.****
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> So-as to prevent continued mis-use of language here; hashed passwords
> can't be "decrypted". It is only possible to find another string which
> hashes to the same value.
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> > T.
>
> --
> Noon Silk
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