ImageShack hacked by Anti-sec movement

Posted by Ann Margaret Lee / TNC on Jul 11th, 2009 and filed under Featured, Science and Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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ImageShack hacked by Anti-sec movement
 

ImageShack, one of the web’s biggest image hosts, was hacked by a group called the “Anti-secmovement this Friday evening. Their attack caused random images hosted by ImageShack to be replaced with the Anti-sec manifesto.

The group says they want to give everyone an “image of what we’re all about.” Anti-sec hacked ImageShack to deliver a message: eradication of full disclosure.

The Anti-sec movement claims that disclosure of security exploits by the security industry is self-serving. Instead of helping users, full disclosure acts merely as a scare tactic to convince people to buy their firewalls, anti-virus software, and auditing services.

In addition, it encourages other hackers to compile the exploits and use them to attack other websites. Anti-Sec says it creates an endless cycle between security fixes and hacker exploits, which only makes the security industry richer.

The group ends with a warning that supporters of full-disclosure and the security industry will not be spared.

It is implied that no images were lost in the process of hacking ImageShack.

View the full image by Anti-sec here.

  • Yes , but the 0-day exploit founded in OpenSSH is private , so security vendors and corporations can't patch or fix the vuln .
    The full disclosure ( white hat ethic ) is a tragic reality for underground and hackers . So , this is the closure of help to script kiddies, vendors and so on. Underground must be closed .
  • Anti-Sec does not consist of true hackers in my humble opinion. While it is understandable to be opposed to security vendors due to fear mongering on their part, what this "group" is suggesting violates the very principle that defines the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information.
  • It *is* kind of ironic, isn't it?

    In hacking into ImageShack, Anti-Sec seems to have given point to the exact abstraction that they claim to abolish. Successfully exploiting ImageShack effectively validated the security companies' reason for alarm - that there *is* an imminent potential security risk in most everything.
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