15 year old six counties male arrested for Talk Talk hacking

[Pub Bore]

The boy has been named by The Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11957474/TalkTalk-cyber-attack-Arrested-schoolboy-named-as-Aaron-Sterritt-15-from-Ballymena.html

Wonder why they feel the need to say "Neighbours in the strongly unionist estate..."  Is this a factor in the case??

[deiseach]

If he was a Taig, it would be an act of terror.

[AZOffaly]

Unionist thug kills family pet.

[Bingo]

maybe I remember it differently, but at 15 you didn't get caught - you were invincible.

the numpties at TT are admitting to no encryption of customer data, so the fact that they may have fallen to a DDOs with and SQLi is a bloody disgrace. That they asked for 80k in Bitcoin is hilarious, and that they showed Krebs the db table copies is even funnier.

a bit of social engineering, and a AWS / GCE account go a long way. you would have said that the odds were on the side of brute force with low primes, but that they (TT) are saying they have no obligation to encrypt data is going to see them burn... SQLi it is.

People are going to jail, and it really shouldn't be the 15 year old (who will be absolutely hired when he gets out, initiative goes a long way these days)

Not in this or any other world do I have the slightest clue as to what you are saying.

[JoG2]

maybe I remember it differently, but at 15 you didn't get caught - you were invincible.

the numpties at TT are admitting to no encryption of customer data, so the fact that they may have fallen to a DDOs with and SQLi is a bloody disgrace. That they asked for 80k in Bitcoin is hilarious, and that they showed Krebs the db table copies is even funnier.

a bit of social engineering, and a AWS / GCE account go a long way. you would have said that the odds were on the side of brute force with low primes, but that they (TT) are saying they have no obligation to encrypt data is going to see them burn... SQLi it is.

People are going to jail, and it really shouldn't be the 15 year old (who will be absolutely hired when he gets out, initiative goes a long way these days)

Not in this or any other world do I have the slightest clue as to what you are saying.

this may shed a little light Bingo. The young guy, working solo I'd say prob set up a self-mining PTC/PUL advanced algorithm but forget to add a stealth avoidance advanced yellow primer script (quite literally a schoolboy error)

[Pub Bore]

maybe I remember it differently, but at 15 you didn't get caught - you were invincible.

the numpties at TT are admitting to no encryption of customer data, so the fact that they may have fallen to a DDOs with and SQLi is a bloody disgrace. That they asked for 80k in Bitcoin is hilarious, and that they showed Krebs the db table copies is even funnier.

a bit of social engineering, and a AWS / GCE account go a long way. you would have said that the odds were on the side of brute force with low primes, but that they (TT) are saying they have no obligation to encrypt data is going to see them burn... SQLi it is.

People are going to jail, and it really shouldn't be the 15 year old (who will be absolutely hired when he gets out, initiative goes a long way these days)

Not in this or any other world do I have the slightest clue as to what you are saying.

this may shed a little light Bingo. The young guy, working solo I'd say prob set up a self-mining PTC/PUL advanced algorithm but forget to add a stealth avoidance advanced yellow primer script (quite literally a schoolboy error)

Jaysus, deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison for that alone

[johnneycool]

Bingo is about to go watch swordfish again to see if it begins to make sense.

[JoG2]

maybe I remember it differently, but at 15 you didn't get caught - you were invincible.

the numpties at TT are admitting to no encryption of customer data, so the fact that they may have fallen to a DDOs with and SQLi is a bloody disgrace. That they asked for 80k in Bitcoin is hilarious, and that they showed Krebs the db table copies is even funnier.

a bit of social engineering, and a AWS / GCE account go a long way. you would have said that the odds were on the side of brute force with low primes, but that they (TT) are saying they have no obligation to encrypt data is going to see them burn... SQLi it is.

People are going to jail, and it really shouldn't be the 15 year old (who will be absolutely hired when he gets out, initiative goes a long way these days)

Not in this or any other world do I have the slightest clue as to what you are saying.

this may shed a little light Bingo. The young guy, working solo I'd say prob set up a self-mining PTC/PUL advanced algorithm but forget to add a stealth avoidance advanced yellow primer script (quite literally a schoolboy error)

Jaysus, deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison for that alone

I know ! if there was a cross-eyed smiley face, I'd add it

[Bingo]

maybe I remember it differently, but at 15 you didn't get caught - you were invincible.

the numpties at TT are admitting to no encryption of customer data, so the fact that they may have fallen to a DDOs with and SQLi is a bloody disgrace. That they asked for 80k in Bitcoin is hilarious, and that they showed Krebs the db table copies is even funnier.

a bit of social engineering, and a AWS / GCE account go a long way. you would have said that the odds were on the side of brute force with low primes, but that they (TT) are saying they have no obligation to encrypt data is going to see them burn... SQLi it is.

People are going to jail, and it really shouldn't be the 15 year old (who will be absolutely hired when he gets out, initiative goes a long way these days)

Not in this or any other world do I have the slightest clue as to what you are saying.

this may shed a little light Bingo. The young guy, working solo I'd say prob set up a self-mining PTC/PUL advanced algorithm but forget to add a stealth avoidance advanced yellow primer script (quite literally a schoolboy error)

Not as clever as he though he was then, the wee bollix!

If he had turned it off and restarted would that have helped? 

[armaghniac]

I doubt he got all this through sql injection or the like. Spoofing / brute force or something like that.

Brute force spoofing, anyone on GAABoard could understand that.

No doubt it was a case of Talk Talk not bothering to protect against attacks that were around before Armagh invented football.
There probably should be legally mandated testing regime for such organisations so that they have to show that they made some effort, although there will always be innovative attacks that are hard to stop.

[michaelg]

If he was a Taig, it would be an act of terror.

Is this a joke?

[heganboy]

If he was a Taig, it would be an act of terror.

Is this a joke?

yes

[Orior]

If he was a Taig, it would be an act of terror.

Is this a joke?

yes

Do some research on this!

Unionist thug kills family pet.