16-year old arrested in Netherlands for hacker attacks on Mastercard, Visa and Paypal

[cowcommander]

Source: AGI News

AGI) - Rome, December 9 - The Dutch police have arrested a 16 year old boy in relation to hacker attacks on the internet sites of Mastercard, Visa and Paypal according to CNN. The attacks have targeted the credit card companies for solidarity against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who was arrested in London. According to the Dutch press, the boy is under questioning by agents of the computer crimes department of the Dutch police. The authorities have also seized some computers. (AGI)

Read more: http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201012091918-cro-ren1089-wikileaks_a_16_year_old_arrested_in_holland_for_hacking

[GodlessBiker]

1. I wonder who is writing the screenplay for all of this. Would make a thrilling movie.

[madmax]

11. Oliver Stone

:shrug:

[GodlessBiker]

14. Good guess.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Palin'll probably be tweeting any minute now, demanding a televised execution.

[madmax]

12. Yes, she has an overblown sense of herself. nt

[fatbuckel]

16. She invented a story on how they were targeting her.

[Nihil]

36. Almost as good as Clinton's "landing under fire" bollocks.

[The Stranger]

19. If she demands a televised execution, then by all means execute her!

And put it on television!

[Turbineguy]

31. She should remember:

"If you die on TV, you haven't died for nothing, you've entertained us!"

[cbdo2007]

3. Good!!

[DerBeppo]

4. Poor Zero Cool

one day he'll come back as Crash Override and take down the Gibson.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Cool

I pictured him but couldn't recall his name.

[Lucinda]

10. :)

[Dash87]

29. Haha!

[Centered]

33. HAHA

I almost spilled my coffee :)

Cheers

[boppers]

37. lol, fist-bump for the references.

My, how the world has changed.

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12037

(Goldstein had a cameo in the movie, quite amusing at the time).

[Newest Reality]

5. So, they finally caught Anonymous? ;) - NT

[Deep13]

6. Whew! Thank god there are no more computer-literate teenagers in the world.

Otherwise, this arrest might be seen as a pointless gesture.

[Teaser]

8. AMONYMOS HAZ BIN COT!

lol

[gvstn]

25. Very funny, anonymous!

[jwirr]

9. Part of the real group or just a kid who was playing around with the

idea? I would guess that many so called "hackers" are taking advantage of the wikileak issue to play their own games. How are they going to know?

[Teaser]

13. "real group"

There is no real group. There's only Anonymous. And it is most certainly not real.

[jwirr]

18. You will not convince me that one person is doing all of this.

[Teaser]

20. lol

of course it's not one person.

It's Anonymous. You're Anonymous too, you know.

[Ruperto31]

24. That's inane.

[Teaser]

26. yeah.

srsbsns.

[Zephie]

15. This will only rile up anonymous more

Trying to put out a fire by starting more fires.

[BenzoDia]

17. 16? Damn just a kid.

Hopefully they just slap him on the wrist.

[Brother Buzz]

23. just slap him on the wrist?

Mastercard, Visa and Paypal would be best served by placing him on their payrolls and fund his legal defense.

[Kali]

27. and they probably will

[BenzoDia]

28. I could be wrong, but I'm assuming he isn't a real hacker,

Just some little kid who downloaded the attack tool and participated in the attacks.

[xor]

35. depends on what he did exactly

I'm willing to bet he's just a normal kid who ran some programs or scripts he downloaded from the net. Then again, he may really know his stuff... but that's the least likely.

[boppers]

38. The big trend is running LOIC. It's basic DDoS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC

If he's 16, he's infantry, not a commander.

Cannon fodder.

Let the analogies to US military ethics flow.

[sofa king]

41. Slashdot is saying Ion Cannon is easily traceable back to the hacker.

Unless other protective procedures are also used. So it looks like the first wave of script kiddies might be rolled up pretty easily.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/11/0228212/Anonymous-WikiLeaks-Proponents-Not-So-Anonymous

As I've said before, these kids are putting themselves at serious personal risk, and I worry for them even though they claim to know the stakes.

[Nordmadr]

21. Wargames, Hackers, Tron...

[Leftist Agitator]

22. .

[Dash87]

30. 8999

:)

[Pavulon]

32. Do they have Mountain Dew and C Socks in the Netherlands

and if so how many were seized.

[boppers]

39. Cheetoes! And a snoopy "calender"! Can't forget those!

Cheetoes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA

Snoopy poster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don't_Use_Pascal
(or)
http://tinyurl.com/2ephkja , because DU hoses URL's with 's in them.

Also at:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

Disclaimer: Ed Post was in my wedding, so I might have a bias there.

[TheMadMonk]

34. This is going to play doubly well.

I reckon the vast majority of those caught over these DDoS shenanigans will be teenaged script kiddies simply because so many are going to join in for the sake of joining in.

Simply catching the little bastards (affectionate tone) will do significant damage to MC, Visa et. al.:

Children have now demonstrated they can take down some of the most secure websites on the internet at will.

If something like the Mastercard "master list" story were to be true, no amount of reporting that it was an extremely sophisticated and well funded group of Eastern European hackers would shake the meme of kids playing merry hell with the world's financial system.

[Sancho]

40. maybe they'll waterboard him for secrets on winning Halo!

...at least we can all see how effective the Patriot Act is a monitoring the internet!

[AngryAmish]

42. LOIC still lets people know your IP address

You have to spoof it yourself. Or go through an anonimizing process. Proxies. Then things you learn on the internet...yet, this stupid a-hole got himself caught.