Tuesday, November 29, 2011

United Nations Group 'hacked'

A organisation of hackers has posted more than 100 email addresses and login sum that it claimed to have extracted from the United Nations.

Many of the emails entangled be present to go to members of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The group, that identified itself as Teampoison, pounded the UN's poise and called it a "fraud".

A mouthpiece is to UNDP mentioned the agency believed "an aged server that contains aged data" had been targeted.

"The UNDP found [the] compromised server and took it offline," mentioned Sausan Ghosheh.

"The server goes back to 2007. There are no active passwords listed for those accounts.

"Please note that UNDP.org was not compromised."

The sum were posted on the website Pastebin beneath the Teampoison logo.

The summary preceding the login sum indicted the UN of behaving to "facilitate the foreword of a New World Order" and asked "United Nations, because didn't you design us?"

Many of the email addresses since finish in undp.org, but others be present to go to members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The print remarkable that a few of the accounts had "no passwords".

The summary finished with the taunt: "The subject right away is how? We will let the so called 'security experts' over at the UN figure that out... Have a Nice Day."

The safety firm Sophos remarkable that Teampoison hackers had formerly pounded the creator of the Blackberry smartphone's website and had published in isolation data about one-time UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

"Teampoison not long ago voiced they were fasten forces with Anonymous on a new first move dubbed 'Operation Robin Hood', targeting banks and financial institutions," the firm's comparison technology consultant, Graham Cluley wrote on Sophos's blog .

The groups mentioned at the time that their operation directed to take allowance from credit cards and donate it to people and charities.

They mentioned people would not be spoiled as the banks had to return fake charges.

Teampoison updated a "shoutout" to Anonymous in its UN assault posting, adding a couple to a Youtube video with more data about its promissory note assault plan.

These ultimate moves offer as a follow-up that supposed hacktivists are expert and peaceful to conspire to take down their targets, according to Professor Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey's subdepartment of computing.

"One of the large problems is that there is so ample data around that people dont think about about their older systems that still have profitable data on them," he said.

"The doctrine here is that anything that binds any data of any worth contingency be protected."

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