Pope Sends His First Tweet,Using an iPad, no less!

Catholicism has come into the 21st century: Pope Benedict tweeted for the first time today. “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI,” he posted, referring to a new Vatican news portal. Even more impressive, the 84-year-old pontiff put the site online himself via iPad, the APreports. He sent the tweet shortly thereafter.

Kinda looks like your grandpa using an iPad, doesn’t it?

Pope Benedict XVI touches a touchpad to send a tweet for the launch of the Vatican news information portal “www.news.va”, at the Vatican Tuesday, June 28, 2011.

The new portal—not to mention the Twitter account—is the Vatican’s latest effort to evangelize to the new generation, and the pope is “clearly in awe at the new technology” and also “clearly enjoying it,” says an official.

Biz Stone Leaves Twitter

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He’ll re-create the ‘Obvious Corporation’ with Evan Williams

 

Biz Stone, co-founder and creative director of Twitter, talks about his company during an interview at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on March 11, 2011 in California.   (Getty Images)

Twitter co-founder Isaac “Biz” Stone is sort-of quitting to go pursue new business ideas with fellow co-founder Evan Williams. In a blog post, Stone says that he’ll “continue to work with the company for many years to come,” but that since the current leadership team is so competent, “I’ve decided that the most effective use of my time is to get out of the way until I’m called upon to be of some specific use.”

Instead, Stone, Williams, and longtime friend Jason Goldman will be re-launching “The Obvious Corporation”—the now-defunct company that Twitter grew out of. The original Obvious Corporation was created by Williams to buy back his failed start-up and to generate new business ideas. Williams left Twitter last fall, the AP notes, as new CEO Dick Costolo took over. Twitter’s third co-founder, Jack Dorsey, recently returned as executive chairman and head of product development.

Laughing at your security – It’s been a long 50-odd days for the Lulz Boat

Laughing at your security – the Lulz Boat.

 

How the media went along for the Lulz Boat ride

27 June 2011 | 13:02 | @arturodetexas

So, the LulzSec hacker group says it has disbanded – but in less than two months they’ve changed the relationship between hackers and the media.

It’s been a long 50-odd days for the Lulz Boat, those fun-loving hackers sailing under the Twitter handle of LulzSec. If you hadn’t gleaned it by now, the name translates as ‘laughing at your security.’

And that’s what the loose collective has been doing.

We’ve seen LulzSec make a mockery of Sony, the US Senate, CIA and FBI pages, countless security firms (maximum lulz there), PBS (who could forget the fake story reporting on rapper Tupac, alive in New Zealand), lots of gaming companies, and their first prominent target, X Factor contestants who found their application and contact details leaked on the web.

But, of course, so-called ‘grey hat’ hacking/cracking attempts aimed at the disruptive outing of poorly secured systems are not new.

And while they initially claimed they were acting just for the laughs, political leanings came into it later on, as they conceded in an interview with the BBC.

But this ‘hacktivist’ slant was also not new – let’s not forget the Anonymous crowd which LulzSec likely spawned from, which itself received widespread attention when engaging in ‘payback’ Denial of Service attacks on companies which acted against WikiLeaks.

No, new was the way in which this hacking group kept the media waiting on their every breach, joke and, importantly, tweet.

Tweeting out announcements, upcoming targets, jokes and more, LulzSec, has almost 282,000 followers at the time of writing – a figure which has rocketed up in recent weeks.

Even the most popular of the Anonymous Twitter accounts can only muster just over 100,000.

And there’s no doubt the half-dozen hackers who make up LulzSec took real interest in the mainstream media’s coverage of their work, as leaked chat logs confirmed last week.

Yet the more they attacked, the more they talked it up, and the more enemies they made.

A number of these are fellow hackers, who for a range of reasons, have fallen foul of the group.

A few weeks back I spoke to a member of the ‘Backtrace Security’ group referenced in the leaked logs – lead LulzSecer Topiary said they should go after Backtrace because they’d dared to attempt to expose them.

This hacker, formerly associated with Anonymous, was angered at LulzSec’s ‘ignorant vigilante nonsense’, and posted alleged names of the core members online months back. Recent chat logs confirmed the hacker names, but the real ones remain unconfirmed.

‘They think they’re invulnerable…but they’re being really, really sloppy’ he said, after claiming to get hold of the information via social engineering.

‘They are very stupidly overconfident.’
 
He claims the FBI approached him for the names, but in the murky world of chat rooms and stage-names, that can’t be confirmed – the FBI have told several media organisations they can’t comment on such investigations.

What’s not in doubt is the risky game being played – LulzSec have taken a lot of joy from tweeting about all the times they’ve supposedly been exposed, only to remain online.

So far, authorities have arrested people who appear to be loose associates of LulzSec at best, and the likely core members – Topiary, Sabu and Kayla included, keep tweeting.

Now, the group says it’s disbanded – and we’re yet to see someone at the centre of the group charged. (including the arrest of a 19 year-old alleged hacker in England last week)

Will the attacks continue?

I asked Murray Goldschmidt of Australia’s Sense of Security how many companies he worked with had faced attempted breaches.

‘I would say all of them’, he answered. ‘But they don’t necessarily know it’

‘They may have already been attacked but don’t have the ability to respond to it.’

Plenty of these may have been for reasons more spurious than having a laugh. But media organisations should not presume that just because a group of hackers delivers their news right to a journalists’ deskstop via a Twitter feed, that noone else has been at it the whole time.

What’s clear is that the textbook on how to get the media interested – indeed how to string them along – has been rewritten.

Recent attacks on Sega as well as the UK’s Office for National Statistics were denied by the group.  Could someone else be leaking data just for the lulz? Probably.

So watch out for LulzSec Brazil, watch out for LulzSec Italy. Watch out for all sorts of groups who wouldn’t mind some mainstream media notoriety.

Because until someone gets sentenced for some very audacious attacks, you can expect more of the same.

mister jester, I got a question for you

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Yo mister jester, I got a question for you,
Where’s topiary, nakomis and that fucker sabu?
You talk a big game, Tryin hard to drop all the names,
The only leak you’ve made? That you’re an ignorant butt stain.
Juggle all the balls, why don’t you tell me a joke?
How ’bout that time you tried to sink my boys in the lulzboat?
What’s wrong, bro? You starting to choke?
The masters of the lulz remain afloat.

I guess “the jester” fits, your cheap magic tricks,
You wrote apache codes? I upgraded ’em, bitch.
You wear a mask, I wear a fucking top hat,
We ain’t even in the same class, you fatass.
We’re the kings of the lulz, the fast cracking masters,
to all the snitches out there, we leaked your passwords, bastards.
I’m the hacker elite, your hacks are all obsolete,
What’s wrong bro, you freezin’ up? Here, ctrl+alt+del.

You’re like a plague, but only the annoying kind,
Like the one in that movie back in 1999.
You whitehat sucka, god you’re so misled,
I wouldn’t be surprised if you thought we were the Feds.
And antisec? We’re not just the solution,
We’re steps one and two to a global revolution.
Terrorist? Go on, fucka, we the heroes,
Floodin your servers, lotsa ones and zeroes.

I guess “the jester” fits, your cheap magic tricks,
You wrote apache codes? I upgraded ’em, bitch.
You wear a mask, I wear a fucking top hat,
We ain’t even in the same class, you fatass.
We’re the kings of the lulz, the fast cracking masters,
to all the snitches out there, we leaked your passwords, bastards.
I’m the hacker elite, your hacks are all obsolete,
What’s wrong bro, you freezin’ up? Here, ctrl+alt+del.

Anuncia Lulz Security el fin de su misión

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Anuncia Lulz Security el fin de su misión
El grupo hacktivista anunció este sábado el fin de una campaña de ataques planeada para 50 días a través de un comunicado que colocó en su página web, junto con 12 archivos en el torrent final.

 

ciudad de mexico • El grupo de hackers Lulz Security anunció este sábado el fin de una campaña de ataques planeada para 50 días a través de un comunicado que colocó en su página web, junto con 12 archivos en el torrent final.

“Nuestro crucero planeado 50 días ha expirado, y ahora tenemos que navegar en la distancia, dejando tras de sí – esperamos – la inspiración, aprobación, desaprobación, burla, la vergüenza, la consideración, los celos, el odio, incluso el amor”, indicaron los hactivistas.

La operación Anti Security (AntiSec) “puede continuar sin nosotros… el movimiento se manifiesta en una revolución”, agrega el documento, en el que además exhorta a los cibernautas a continuar la operación porque “juntos, unidos, podemos vencer a nuestros opresores comunes”.

LulzSec atrajo la atención por sus infiltraciones a webs como la de la CIA, FBI, Sony, Fox, Senado de EU, el gobierno de Brasil y la más reciente, la de la policía de Arizona, de la cual extrajeron documentos que hablaban de Joaquín, “El Chapo” Guzmán.

El documento titulado “50 Days of Lulz” finaliza con un agradecimiento a quienes apoyaron al grupo de hackers, además de a sus propios miembros y simpatizantes de Battlefleet.

LulzSec, motivo de inspiración

Apenas, el día de ayer se subió a la plataforma musical SounCloud la canción “God Hates Clowns”, en la que el grupo hacktivista se mofa de los fallidos intentos de los gobiernos por detener los ciberataques y a los propios miembros del grupo.

Tras la noticia del fin de la campaña del grupo de hackers, Anonamelessness, el usuario que cargó “God Hates Clowns” en la red social de músicos, solicita en Twitter alguna propuesta sobre una nueva canción sobre LulzSec.

Con su disolución “mis dos canciones quedaron invalidadas”, publicó en el sitio de microblogging.

Anonamelessness se define como el lado musical de Anonymous e indica en su biografía en Twitter que además apoya a LulzSec y WikiLeaks.

Los archivos

El documento en el que LulzSec envía un mensaje a sus miembros y seguidores, incluye los archivos:

• 50 Days of Lulz.txt
• booty/AOL internal data.txt
• booty/AT&T internal data.rar
• booty/Battlefield Heroes Beta (550k users).csv
• booty/FBI being silly.txt
• booty/Hackforums.net (200k users).sql
• booty/Nato-bookshop.org (12k users).csv
• booty/Office networks of corporations.txt
• booty/Private Investigator Emails.txt
• booty/Random gaming forums (50k users).txt
• booty/Silly routers.txt
• booty/navy.mil owned.png

LulzSec: the members and the enemies

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While Sabu and Topiary are firmly on the inside, the likes of The Jester and LulzSec Exposed are most certainly not

 

Inside

Sabu Apparent founder and leader of LulzSec, he is a long-time hacktivist associated with senior Anonymous members. Decides who can join the group and who should be targeted. Attempts by rivals to uncover details about his real-life identity suggest he is a 30-year-old IT consultant skilled in the Python programming language who has lived in New York. The timing of some his tweets – tweeting “goodnight all” at 0700 BST, or 0200 New York time – implies he is on the US’s eastern seaboard.

 

Topiary Believed to be second-in-command, and the public face of LulzSec. An eloquent writer with a sharp turn of phrase, Topiary manages the main LulzSec Twitter account and has a hand in most of the group’s rare public pronouncements. Well-known among hackers due to long links with senior Anonymous members. Chat logs taken over five days from May and June show Topiary to be oddly self-conscious – he said of a Wikipedia page about himself: “can we delete it somehow?” – and not beyond his own reproach: “Sabu and I got a bit carried away and gave LulzSec away a bit.” Little is known about his identity, though he has been informally addressed as Daniel in leaked transcripts.

 

Kayla Thought to be the only senior female member of the hacking community, with lengthy involvement in the top command of Anonymous and, latterly, LulzSec. Apparently owns a powerful botnet used to take down targets. May have been instrumental in the attack in February on a US security firm, HBGary. In logs, referred to as LulzSec’s “assassin/spy”.

 

Storm Another senior hacker apparently controlling a large botnet of infected computers. Known for targeting rival hacker forums, and acting on Sabu’s instruction. Appears to be a veteran in the world of taking down websites, privately disclosing this month in logs seen by the Guardian that his denial of service tool is “over 10 years old”.

Joepie92/Joepie91

Fringe member who spends much of the time “idling” in the group’s chatrooms rather than actively co-ordinating or supporting attacks. Helps identify rival hackers. Little is known about his real-life identity.

 

 

Neuron One of the most technically able members of LulzSec, Neuron builds tools for the group and is occasionally involved in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Little is known about Neuron’s real-life identity, although his use of “aye” for “yes” suggests he is in or from the UK.

 

Tflow Credited with creating LulzSec’s famous Friday song, a comical skit denouncing other hackers and warning its rivals. Tflow also appears to be involved in maintenance for the main LulzSec website, protecting it from incoming attacks. Claims to have been around since the start of LulzSec towards the end of May.

Outside

The Jester Emphatically not a member of LulzSec. A lone-wolf hacker, self-described as a “hacktivist for good”. Believed to be ex-military, The Jester appears to have considerable firepower, which he principally employs against jihadist websites. A thorn in the side of the sprawling collectives Anonymous and, latterly, LulzSec for some time: publicly mocking their “childish” pursuits and threatening to expose key members by releasing their “Dox”: documents and information that would identify them in real life. Most believe the Jester to be based in the US, a product of his military background. He also attacks what he calls “terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, and other general bad guys”. Brought down the WikiLeaks website in November, hours before it released the US diplomatic cables, with an enormous DDOS attack.

 

LulzSec Exposed Group of unknown size of self-described “web ninjas” who say they are unaffiliated to The Jester, but share his desire to out members of LulzSec. Claim to be angry on behalf of victims; English may not be their first language (or perhaps not that of the person(s) writing their blog. “We are not doing this for [the] sake of publicity or media attention,” they say on their blog. “We just thought we could help and we did it.”

LulzSec claims new international hacking victory

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LulzSec claims to have brought down two Brazilian government websites in fresh attacks after a 19-year-old teenager from Essex was arrested, accused of being part of the hacker group.

In a tweet in the early hours of Wednesday morning, LulzSecBrazil wrote: “TANGO DOWN brasil.gov.br & presidencia.gov.br”

Another Twitter message from the main LulzSec page then added: “Our Brazilian unit is making progress. Well done @LulzSecBrazil, brothers!”

The websites are the official pages of the Brazilian Government and the President’s office, the equivalent of the Downing Street site.

Attempts to access the websites this morning proved unsuccessful and the attacks appeared to have swamped the pages with internet visits, causing them to crash.

The Brazilian government has become the latest high-profile victim claimed by LulzSec in a list which has allegedly included the CIA, the US Senate, the US television broadcaster PBS, Britain’s Serious and Organised Crime Agency and the technology firms Sony and Nintendo.

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If the claims are accurate, it would not be the first time that LulzSec has reacted hard to attempts to damage it.

Yesterday, the group posted the private details, including the home addresses, of one hacker and his associate who “tried to snitch on us”, accusing the hacker of “countless cybercrimes”.

Addressing the post to the “FBI & other law enforcement clowns”, they signed off: “There is no mercy on The Lulz Boat. Snitches get stitches.”

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The 19-year-old arrested in the UK on Monday night is Ryan Cleary, the son of a college lecturer. The teenager is accused of being a “major player” in LulzSec.

He was held in a raid at his family home in Wickford following a joint investigation between Scotland Yard and the FBI, which was also aimed at finding the hackers who breached security at the video games firms.

No messages were posted on the Twitter account of LulzSec for about 10 hours after the arrest before two denials came.

One read: “Clearly the UK police are so desperate to catch us that they’ve gone and arrested someone who is, at best, mildly associated with us. Lame”

Another read: “Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it’s all over now… wait… we’re all still here! Which poor b—–d did they take down?”

It was alleged last night that Mr Cleary was online in the middle of hacking when he was held. The arrest came hours after an anonymous internet user claiming to be from LulzSec threatened to publish the entire 2011 census database, though this was later dismissed as a hoax. A Scotland Yard spokesman said a “significant amount of material” had been seized from Mr Cleary’s family home by officers from its specialist e-crime unit, and would now be subjected to forensic examination.

Mr Cleary’s family expressed disbelief that the self-confessed computer “nerd” had anything to do with hacking. His mother Rita, 45, said her son “lives his life online” but she thought he had been playing computer games in his bedroom at the detached family home.

She added that, as he was led away by police, he told her he feared he would be extradited to America.

His older brother Mitchell, 22, said: “Ryan is obsessed with computers. That’s all he ever did. I was stunned to hear he had been arrested.

”He’s not the sort of person to do anything mad or go out and let his hair down or do anything violent. He stays in his room – you’ll be lucky if he opens the blinds, but that’s just family, isn’t it? I barely see him – I’m more of a football person – he’s more of an inside person.”

He said his brother had fallen out with people over WikiLeaks: “He used to be part of WikiLeaks and he has upset someone from doing that and they have made a Facebook page having a go at him.”

James Rounce, a neighbour of Cleary, said: “They moved in about 10 years ago and have been pleasant neighbours. I think he had been away at university and had come back for the holidays or because he had finished his exams. You could tell he was very bright just from the way he spoke and presented himself.”

Mr Cleary’s father Neil, 44, worked as musical director on the West End production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express. He later became a lecturer at Peterborough Regional College in Cambridgeshire and director of its orchestra. Nick Stamford, a former classmate of Ryan Cleary, said: “He used to spend a lot of time at home and that is when I think he got into computers. He was quite bright but he didn’t really have too many friends.”

LulzSec has emerged in recent weeks as a rival to the hacking group Anonymous, which targeted banks that had refused to process donations to the WikiLeaks website.

The organisation claimed credit for hacking into the accounts of Sony PlayStation users. On Monday it bombarded the website of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency with so much internet traffic it had to be taken offline.

Mr Cleary’s arrest is likely to lead to comparisons with the case of Gary McKinnon, the 45-year-old Briton fighting extradition to the United States, where he could face 60 years in jail if convicted of hacking into Pentagon and Nasa computers.

 

y los Locutores de Multimedios cuando,Cae diputado por exhibirse en Twitter

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Admite que la “distracción” que él mismo creó le impide seguir adelante

El ex congresista Anthony Weiner, al anunciar su renuncia en Nueva York

WASHINGTON.— Considerado una estrella en ascenso en el firmamento del Partido Demócrata, Anthony Weiner, representante por Nueva York, se convirtió ayer en un cadáver político.

El hombre que aspiraba a convertirse en el próximo alcalde neoyorquino se retiró de la arena política en medio de la vergüenza y la afrenta pública. En un acto transmitido desde su oficina en el distrito de Brooklyn, Weiner confirmó su renuncia, ante la imposibilidad de sobrevivir a un escándalo de relaciones inapropiadas a través de Twitter.

“Hoy anuncio mi dimisión como representante. Me hubiera gustado seguir con mi labor. Desafortunadamente la distracción (escándalo) que he creado yo mismo me imposibilita seguir adelante”, dijo el congresista en medio de los abucheos, los gritos de “pervertido” y los vivas que marcaron ayer su retirada.

“Quiero pedir perdón por todos los errores personales que he cometido y por la vergüenza que he hecho pasar a mis vecinos y a mis votantes. Pero en especial a mi esposa Huma”, añadió Weiner, en un acto que se transformó en su linchamiento político.

Weiner no respondió preguntas a la prensa. Rodeado por decenas de periodistas, el ex representante, famoso por su carácter abrasivo y su implacable retórica, se escurrió entre la multitud para desaparecer, quizá para siempre, de la escena pública.

Los rumores de su renuncia habían circulado desde principios de semana, cuando el propio presidente Barack Obama sugirió que debía renunciar. La sutil invitación del mandatario surtió su efecto a primera hora de ayer, cuando los mensajes a través de Twitter enloquecieron anticipando la renuncia del representante, que pagó muy cara su obsesión por los contactos impropios con estudiantes, seguidoras y mujeres de dudosa reputación a través de las redes sociales.

De 46 años, Weiner ha echado por la borda una carrera política que comenzó hace casi 20 años, cuando se convirtió en uno de los concejales más jóvenes de Nueva York. Desde 1985 había trabajado como parte del gabinete del entonces representante y actual senador Chuck Schumer.

El político neoyorquino fue electo por primera vez para la Cámara de Representantes estadounidense en los comicios de noviembre de 1998 y tenía por delante un prometedor futuro, en el que se perfilaba como el candidato del Partido Demócrata a la alcaldía de Nueva York, un puesto al que ya aspiró sin éxito en 2005.

La esposa, ausente

Weiner es judío y está casado desde hace un año con Huma Abedin, musulmana y asistente de la secretaria de Estado, Hillary Clinton. Precisamente, la confirmación de la renuncia del representante se produjo a primera hora de ayer, luego del retorno de su esposa de una gira de trabajo. El hecho de que la esposa de Weiner no estuviera ayer al lado de él durante su humillante acto de renuncia, ha sido explicado por distintos amigos de la pareja por el hecho de que Huma se encuentra embarazada, según la versión de la que hicieron eco varios medios de prensa.

Weiner había solicitado un permiso de dos semanas para someterse a tratamiento terapéutico profesional, con la esperanza de acallar las críticas y las voces que exigían su renuncia.

Pero el abandono del liderazgo demócrata y las presiones ejercidas desde la Casa Blanca, hicieron insostenible su posición en el Congreso.

Elecciones especiales

De acuerdo con los términos que dicta la ley electoral en Nueva York, será el gobernador Mario Cuomo el encargado de convocar unas elecciones especiales para decidir el nombre del sucesor o sucesora de Weiner en un distrito que, irónicamente, podría desaparecer dentro de muy poco como consecuencia de un próximo proceso de reconfiguración distrital.

La polémica protagonizada por Weiner estalló a finales de mayo, cuando la foto de un hombre en calzoncillos apareció en su cuenta de Twitter con un enlace a una estudiante universitaria de 21 años en el estado de Washington.

En medio de una frenética cacería mediática para conocer la identidad del hombre en calzoncillos, el congresista negó que se tratara de él y fue más allá, al asegurar que su cuenta de Twitter había sufrido un ataque informático para desprestigiarlo.

Sin embargo, el castillo de naipes se derrumbó luego de que el propio Weiner decidió reconocer no sólo que él había sido el protagonista de la fotografía enviada a la estudiante, sino que además había sostenido relaciones “inapropiadas” con otras seis mujeres.

Las cosas se agravaron cuando la ex actriz de cine porno Ginger Lee desveló la semana pasada que mantuvo contactos con Weiner a través de la red y que a principios de junio él le pidió que mintiera sobre su relación

Presentan a presunto homicida de escoltas de Rodrigo Medina

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Jesús Eduardo Carcamo Rocha confesó haber participado en la privación de la libertad y posterior asesinato de los elementos de seguridad.

La detención se realizó en el municipio de Pesquería.

Jesús Eduardo Carcamo Rocha confesó haber participado en la privación de la libertad y posterior asesinato de los elementos de seguridad.

 

Monterrey • Las autoridades presentaron esta tarde a un integrante de la delincuencia organizada, quien participó en el secuestro y homicidio de los dos escoltas del gobernador Rodrigo Medina.

La detención se realizó en el municipio de Pesquería, el implicado se enfrentó contra efectivos del Ejército, quienes también liberaron a dos personas.

El detenido fue identificado como Jesús Eduardo Carcamo Rocha, de 18 años y originario de Tamaulipas, quien confesó los hechos.

El Procurador de Justicia en Nuevo León, no descartó que los elementos de la policía de Zuazua detenidos en la mañana estén relacionados con los hechos.

Encuentran restos de escoltas

Alrededor de las 08:00 horas del 15 de junio, fueron encontrados restos humanos en el cruce de Arteaga y Chapultepec, cerca de la Central de Abastos, en el municipio de Guadalupe, Nuevo León, y horas más tarde se logró confirmar que se trataba de dos personas que pertenecen al cuerpo de seguridad del gobierno estatal.

Milenio Televisión confirmó que los restos encontrados son de dos personas del equipo de seguridad del gobernador Rodrigo Medina, si embargo hasta el momento no se ha precisado los nombres, edad y que funciones estaban desempañado los escoltas ya que por el momento ninguna autoridad estatal se ha pronunciado al respecto.

A las 11:40 horas, el gobernador Rodrigo Medina a través de su cuenta de Twitter señaló: “Las amenazas no detendrán mi determinación de combatir a la delincuencia organizada”.

De manera extraoficial se ha dado a conocer que los presuntos delincuentes antes de retirarse del lugar donde dejaron los restos, balearon los bultos y una cubeta que los contenía.

En el pavimento quedaron regados 18 casquillos de fusiles AR-15 y AK-47, mejor conocida como “cuerno de chivo”.

La web de la CIA, sin servicio tras un supuesto ciberataque

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El grupo de ‘hackers’ Lulz Security reclama la autoría del suceso.- Ofrecen un número de teléfono para que los ciudadanos sugieran sitios a atacar.- Anonymous asalta más de 50 webs de Malasia.

El grupo de piratas informáticos Lulz Security ha asegurado, a través de un mensaje en Twitter, que ha atacado en la noche del miércoles la página web de la CIA, que estuvo caída durante unos momentos. Los hackers son los mismos que en el pasado se han atribuido ataques a las páginas del Senado de Estados Unidos, Sony y la televisión pública estadounidense. Un portavoz de la Agencia de Inteligencia ha declarado que estaban estudiando el mensaje de Lulz.

Analistas de seguridad han restado importancia a los ataques de Lulz alegando que el grupo de piratas informáticos están buscando llamar la atención. Lulz no ha colgado en Internet, como si hizo cuando atacó la del Senado, pruebas de tener información relevante proveniente de la página de la CIA.

A pesar de que Lulz Security se presentan más bromistas y activistas que como un grupo con intenciones ilegales, sus miembros han sido acusados de quebrantar la ley y el FBI los está buscando. El grupo, que también ha atacado los sistemas de Nintendo, aseguró en su página de Internet tras atacar la página del Senado que entró en el servidor para poner en evidencia los problemas de seguridad de la red.

Teléfono y Anonymous

La última ocurrencia del grupo, que reivindica sus acciones por sentido del humor ha sido publicar un número de teléfono, cuyo prefijo es del estado de Ohio, para que los ciudadanos escojan sitios que quieren que sean atacados. El número ofrece un buzón de voz para dejar el encargo ya que quienes lo atienden, dos personas con nombre francés, aseguran estar ocupados en sus locuras. Luis Corrons, de Panda Labs, considera que el suministro de un número de teléfono es una propuesta excéntrica porque podrían proponer recibir las sugerencias a través de Internet. No se descarta que la propuesta de un número telefónico tenga el propósito de saturar alguna línea a la manera de una denegación de servicio.

Además de la CIA, Lulzsec es el autor de ataques de denegación de servicio a servidores de sitios de entretenimiento como Eve Online, Minecraft, Legue of Legends y Escapist Magazine. La acción se ha hecho bajo el nombre de #TitanicTakeoverTuesday.

Por otra parte, Anonymous ha atacado esta madrugada más de 50 sitios del Gobierno de Malasia en represalia por haber censurado Wikileaks y sitios de descargas.

Entre las instituciones afectadas están los sitios del Gobierno, el Ministerio de Información, el servicio de bomberos y la autoridad de transporte.