Two well-known hacker groups that are doing different story on the Internet have come together today in favor of a common cause. The Lulzsec, a group that attacked Sony's servers and had closed several government sites, announced an alliance by Anonymous, a group formed in 2007 and the Sony also has the list of targets, among other large companies and government websites.
The movement is called AntiSec (Anti-Security) and aims to attack Web sites of governments and banking organizations to show how fragile they are. In a stretch of nothing pretentious press release released by the site pastebin.com Lulzsec, they say that anyone is free to join the movement and that "together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not invaded by greedy profiteers."
Priority number one, they say, is stealing and leaking confidential documents from governments, banks and other organizations as large as. Apparently, they mean business: until the time of publication of this post two attacks by the AntiSec the sites had already been registered, according to the group account Lulzsec on Twitter. The first took the air SOCA's website, agency against organized crime in the UK, and the second is still going on but the target has not yet been revealed.
I see two possible outcomes of this war: the members of Anonymous and Lulzsec will be hunted down as never before, found and arrested by authorities or banks and governments are going to take seriously the security of your servers.
Seeing how hackers can hide well, I think the first is most unlikely to happen and I hope that happens before the second alternative of my bank details leaked on the web.
