Friday, February 3, 2012

CYBER HACKERS ...COMPRISE FBI and SCOTLAND YARD...
I'd like to be able to hack, but my computer guru won't teach me...be ###
Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too — and now so is the rest of the world.
Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the call to the Internet on Friday, gloating in a Twitter message that "the FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now."
The humiliating coup exposed a vulnerability that might have had more serious consequences had someone else been listening in on the line.
"A law enforcement agency using unencrypted, unsecure communications is a major fumble," said Marcus Carey, who spent years securing communications for the U.S. National Security Agency before joining security-risk assessment firm Rapid7. More


Manuel Balce Ceneta, Alastair Grant / AP
This two picture combo shows, above: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington 
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, and below, New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, also 
Friday Feb. 3, 2012. Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cyber crime
 investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard. The hacker group Anonymous has released a roughly 15-minute-long 
recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit
hacking group. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Alastair Grant)
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