Today's paper (The Sun of course) was very interesting, they changed it when they finally could but you can still see it here. Good guess, Lulzsec has not really retired it seems and has pulled a nice one today.

This was probably timed with the Murdoch's having to face a parliamentary committee.

Today Avaaz among others where there to greet him and express concerns. I went down to Westminster Abbey to join these fine people.

Black & Berg, a security company, has exposed the truth behind TeaMp0isoN and Lulzsec.. . it's all made up. .. ... . Or is it ? ... . ..... . Or, which part is actually made up ?

They seem to have two domain names/websites, blackandberg.com and blackbergsecurity.us but they are currently down (they redirect to google.com). you can see what their site used to look like via google.cache.

After reading a bit of their "Genuine" twitter account and some of Jo Black's twitter (and replies, those are the best), it' seems like this is a Ligattalike company. Their website is owned and they are tweeting about how they want to declare war on Anonymous, (something about an itchy finger). One word: Losers.

A couple of days ago Lulz Security decided to retire after 50 days of fun and games. Some condemn their acts and say that even if there is a point to be made it is still illegal/bad to attack someone's computer. Others are glad to see that such institutions that many trust are getting exposed for not securing information people trust them with.. . And there is anything in between.

In all this there are some that actually go out of their way to illegally attack what they claim to be, LulZ Security's computers, and expose them to the authorities and anyone who has Internet. You can read their pastebin log here.

I read through this and so far, it looks like these guys are mainly upset because they consider themselves to be the real "hackers" and they should be getting all the glory points. I sense bitterness as they call LulzSec "kiddies" all the time etc etc, yet the A-Team seems to still have difficulties with spelling...

Anyway, they're probably all kids and there's nothing wrong with being a kid IMHO, it happens to most people at some point.

Speaking of kids, another group called TeaMp0isoN_ is also angry with Lulz Security, looks like some rivalry issue as they have just exposed Tony Blair's private info obtained from his webmail that is running outdated software.

So just when you thought that your summer newstainement (for geeks) was over... . .

Update: It seems that TeaMp0isoN_ and Sabu have been sending each other many friendly tweets. TeaMp0isoN_ kept asking Sabu to delete his/her account, that actually made me LOL. The conversation has halted so far when TeaMp0isoN_ said: im not going to tweet until iv hacked AnonOPs Source tweet

Lulz is everywhere and suddenly. They appear to have attacked (by cyber means) half of the Internets, so far only parts of the bad half have been hit. Some say this is a fork of Anonymous, the group that isn't really a group. Others even suspect they could be an undercover group of government agents looking to attract 1337 h4x0r5 in to their net.

This article talks about the subject, paranoia, informers, denunciation, etc... note the DarkMarket incident. From a suspicious point of view, this all looks very suspicious.

From what I originally understood, this group formed partly because of the absurd idea from the U.S. government that cybercrimes should be considerable as acts of war. Maybe some people don't believe there is a difference between actual war crimes and a good old DDoS ?

So what should we make of a cyber attack where British intelligence officers attack Al Qaida's website. They replaced a recipe for a bomb with a recipe for cupcakes, the style is very Lulz by the way. Does this mean that the U.S.A. gov considers that the U.K. just declared war on Al-Quaida ? Does this legitimise any eventual response ?

This may sound a bit hippie but, can't we just DDoS each other and own each other's blogs without going all atomic bomb or navy seal ? That would be nice.

The U.S. government has declared that hacking can now to be considered an act of war in certain circumstances. Until now when someone hacked into a system they could eventually be traced and get some fine or even prison time and such. Now if it's an act of war, well, I guess they consider they can now just bomb your place or something. I'm not sure how this really works.

Lulz Security, or LulzSec, is a serious organisation that doesn't like to laugh. So they hacked into some FBI affiliated website, infragardatlanta.org just for the fun of it, they had to it was Friday. They seem to be doing this to demonstrate that it's a ridiculous concept that seems to say "we don't know how to secure our databases so... you know, we'll resort to fists".

Read more about lulzsec releases, and if that is down a report of this incident can be found here.