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IMF hacked and extremely sensitive data about Irelands finances stolen

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  • #52
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    gonedrinking wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

    This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was. Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.
    I don't know which is more amusing... the suggestion that hackers would break into the IMF system and instead of targeting IMF reserve positions (cash), instead look for the scandal on little old Ireland, as released from Merrion Street

    or

    the fact that they (presumably the Chinese) would then log onto boards.ie, and target some random forum user for implicating the Chinese!


  • #53
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    This is great news. The the world might finally realise the reality of the Imperial Monetarist Pigs.


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    This is great news. The the world might finally realise the reality of the Imperial Monetarist Pigs.

    I think you mean the Imperial Monetiarist Fascists!


  • #55
    Kepti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Kepti


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    Wasn't it like two weeks ago that there were threads on this board calling out the US for interfering in too much and using our vast resources in evil ways... and now someone wants us to ride in on our white chargers to save the day?

    Fascinating.

    Different people on forums have differing ideas and opinions.

    Fascinating.


  • #56
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think you mean the Imperial Monetiarist Fascists!

    They have many names.


  • #57
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Top level sources inform me it was the French.

    До свидания.


  • #58
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    maybe the department of finance

    knocking off a few zero's from the I O U


  • #59
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    BarryM wrote: »
    Are you nuts or (just) paranoid?? What is 'really bad' ?? the story is a vague tale about suspicious file transfers and the takeover of a screen. Christ, any medium intelligent nerd could do that - the real deal here is the extremely poor security at IMF. Most public bodies of this kind have staff who are political appointees and have f all knowledge of the sort of security they should have and the sort of routines they should have to check it. They depend on staff telling them what they want to hear.

    If you want to hack any system just go in to their buiilding, two of you, distract one of the receptionists and watch another one use their terminal, lean over the counter and see the passwords on the post it note, read the paperwork upside down on their desk, etc....easy. I was in the local Garda station recently (to get them to prove I am still alive...!) and there in full view was the login sequence of the pulse system.....

    Any chance you might post up the the pulse log-in bit????????????????????


  • #60
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13748488

    ....or would something that clever be beyond our government?


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  • #61
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,549 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Everyone knows it was Jim Corr


  • #62
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    jack presley wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13748488

    ....or would something that clever be beyond our government?
    Seriously? Do you really think our lot have the tech know-how?

    Have you seen the websites of our government departments?


  • #63
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Merged with previous IMF hacked thread


  • #64
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    BarryM wrote: »
    Are you nuts or (just) paranoid?? What is 'really bad' ?? the story is a vague tale about suspicious file transfers and the takeover of a screen. Christ, any medium intelligent nerd could do that - the real deal here is the extremely poor security at IMF. Most public bodies of this kind have staff who are political appointees and have f all knowledge of the sort of security they should have and the sort of routines they should have to check it. They depend on staff telling them what they want to hear.

    If you want to hack any system just go in to their buiilding, two of you, distract one of the receptionists and watch another one use their terminal, lean over the counter and see the passwords on the post it note, read the paperwork upside down on their desk, etc....easy. I was in the local Garda station recently (to get them to prove I am still alive...!) and there in full view was the login sequence of the pulse system.....


    *Red light pulses in FBI HQ*













    Crap,guilty by association....:mad:


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