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The Dark Web is having a rough time right now... although the victims in this case won't earn too much sympathy. An Anonymous-linked hacker speaking to Motherboard brought down about a fifth of the Tor network's 'secret' websites (over 10,000 of them) in a claimed vigilante move. The intruder decided to attack a Dark Web hosting service, Freedom Hosting II, after discovering that it was managing child porn sites it had to be aware of -- they were using gigabytes of data each when the host officially allows no more than 256MB. Each site had its usual pages replaced with a message that not only chastised FH2, but offered a data dump (minus user info) and explained the nature of the hack.
Reportedly, the attack wasn't difficult. The hacker only needed to have control over a site (new or existing) to get started. After that, it was mostly a matter of modifying a configuration file, triggering a password reset and getting root access.
From early indications, the perpetrator is handling the data relatively responsibly. It's going to a security researcher who'll hand it over to law enforcement, which might just use it to bust the porn peddlers.
Source:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/05/hack-knocks-out-fifth-of-dark-web/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:47AM
My basic guess as to what Donald Trump's tax returns would show, and why he's so resistant to releasing them: His net worth is somewhere around -$500,000,000. If any of his creditors definitively knew that, they'd all call in their debts, which would absolutely ruin him and his public image of a "successful businessman".
Incidentally, the reason that those debts are likely foreign is that, according to Michael Bloomberg, is that word got around among rich Americans (many of whom either live or work in New York) that Trump is basically a con-artist who will rip you off given the chance. Rich people elsewhere in the world hadn't gotten that message as quickly, so he simply switched his marks to rich guys overseas.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.