Seville Paranoid Leftys Indymedia Hackers and the FBI

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday June 08, 2002 15:56 by IRISHAV8ER - INFOWAR WE ARE WINNING

Information Warfare and PC Security - Be ahead of the game

1) Several computers used by indymedia journalists have been infected with spyware* 2) Several computers used by indymedia journalists have been infected with Viruses* 3) Indymedia has been hacked (someone wrote a program (bot) to automatically spam the newswire with Pro Mcdonalds propaganda)* 4) Indymedia sites are being monitored - no surprise there* Lefty paranoia? - Knowledge is power Wont happen to you - think again "ECHILON"

SEVILLE PARANOID LEFTYS INDYMEDIA HACKERS and the FBI
Information Warfare and PC Security - Be ahead of the game

1) Several computers used by indymedia journalists have been infected with spyware*

2) Several computers used by indymedia journalists have been infected with Viruses*

3) Indymedia has been hacked (someone wrote a program (bot) to automatically spam the newswire with Pro Mcdonalds propaganda)*

4) Indymedia sites are being monitored - no surprise there*

Lefty paranoia? - Knowledge is power
Wont happen to you - think again "ECHILON"

A 16-year-old friend of mine cracked my hotmail e-mail in seconds - Think what "BIG BROTHER" could do!
Time to protect your Privacy/information/data?

1)
* SPYWARE - is a program (software) which monitors and collects information about a person’s computer usage. The spyware then uses the computers own Internet connection to send (without the users knowledge or permission) the information on to a 3rd party.

What would you think if someone was monitoring every web page you visit, every form you fill in, every e-mail you send?

How do you get infected with Spy ware?
Most usually from downloading freeware or another program off the Internet, I got mine from downloading a game OSAMA.EXE (about Bin Laden!)
Spyware hides in your system files collecting information and sending it to interested parties, it is impossible to spot until your FIREWALL (more on these later) detects an unregistered program trying to access the Internet without your permission.
Go to www.lavasoft.com and download a program called Ad-Aware to clean your system of spy ware.

Who uses Spy ware?
Mostly used by large Corporations and data collecting services (stealth advertising) but can be used by anyone who wants to spy on you.

Is it illegal?
No, funny that wonder why?

2)
*VIRUSES - There are some nasty Viruses doing the rounds at the moment (see SWP posting), which include boot viruses a very nasty data destroying bug. Remember to back up your work and have an up to date! Virus checker.

A computer virus is a piece of malicious code that attaches to important areas within computers, such as executable files, and the boot areas of floppy disks and hard disks. A virus can destroy data after copying itself to other host files or disks. The virus spreads when its host file runs and the malicious code is unleashed. The virus can quickly spread into memory as the computer boots from an infected disk.
Once in memory, the virus can infect other executable files or disk boot sectors. Typically, a virus remains dormant until some trigger event occurs, such as a system date. In addition to replication, a computer virus often performs some other function, usually intended to do damage or spread a message.

There are more than 20,000 known viruses.
Though much of what people have heard about viruses is hype, viruses are actually quite common and easily spread. If left unguarded, your PC could lose data or become corrupt.
The primary threat of infection comes from files that are shared, and then opened and used.

3)
INDYMEDIA HACKED!!!! - Annoying but non fatal - some looser with to much time on there hands wrote a program that spammed indymedia newswire with crazy pro McDonalds Spam.

4)

INDYMEDIA SITES ARE BEING MONITORED -- THAT MEANS YOU
Time to protect your self get a good FIREWALL
What is a FIREWALL - a firewall is a simple program, which Guards the Doors (ports) of your computer so you control the information, which is sent back and forwards from the Internet.
FIREWALLS are designed to keep hackers out; they can also protect e-mail security and spot SPYWARE.
FIREWALLS prevent Internet cookies from giving away information about you and keeps people from tracking your PC and Internet use.

FIREWALLS give you the IP address of who is HACKING YOU put these in to a tracer software and see who is HACKING YOU

Last night while on INDYMEDIA IRELAND, MADRIA and BARSALONA I got 2 HACKS !!!!!!!!!!!! (Detected on my new FIREWALL)

when I traced them on my new toy VisualRoute guess whom I found?
(VisualRoute is a visual, fast, and integrated ping, whois, and traceroute program that automatically analyses connectivity problems, displaying the results on a World map. i.e. it finds out whose hacking you and shows you where they are in the world.
tracer software - see who is hacking you (30 day trial)

HACK 1

Defense Information Systems Agency (NET-MILX25-TEMP)
Washington, DC 20305-2000
US

Netname: MILX25-TEMP
Netblock: 29.0.0.0 - 29.255.255.255
Maintainer: DNIC

Coordinator:
Hill, Thomas M. (TMH6-ARIN) aetvtfjc@HANAU-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
+049 06181-88-7541

Record last updated on 11-Nov-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Jun-2002 20:01:44 EDT.

HACK 2

United States Army Signal Center (NETBLK-ARMYCORP-BLOCKB)
Fort Gordon
ATZH-CDM
Fort Gordon, GA 30905-5000
US

Netname: ARMYCORP-BLOCKB
Netblock: 148.10.0.0 - 148.50.255.255
Maintainer: DNIC

Coordinator:
DoD, Network (MIL-HSTMST-ARIN) HOSTMASTER@NIC.MIL
(703) 676-1051 (800) 365-3642 (FAX) (703) 676-1749

Record last updated on 23-Sep-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Jun-2002 20:01:44 EDT.
ZoneAlarm / McAfee Firewall are 2 commonly used Firewalls make sure you have an up to date version
NB I’m no expert, please correct me if iam wrong or have left important stuff out.
Anybody else had similar experiences?
DONT BE PARANOID BE SAFE