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Hackers support Occupy wall street protests today released the personal information of former Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, the executive who was U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Clinton when the banking reform Glass-Steagall Act was repealed.
The CabinCr3w, hackers aligned with the group of anonymous online activists and protests have been releasing the personal data of the CEOs of Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other bankers. He also disclosed information about a police officer in New York accused of excessive use of the provocation and the pepper spray on people in the protests, which began September 17 in New York and have spread worldwide.
The disclosure of information in the website has StickyPaste data. com Rubin and his family, including addresses, property information, professional activities and organizations, judicial and political contributions.
Rubin, who also was an executive at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup, is one of the founders of the Hamilton Project, a tank of economic studies, and co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations. It could not be reached for comment this afternoon.
Hackers have launched a program that allows one computer to finish with a Web server using a secure connection.
THC tool-SSL-DOS, which was published on Monday, allegedly exploits a flaw in the Secure Sockets Layer renegotiation (SSL) by overloading the system with multiple applications for secure connections. SSL renegotiation allows Web sites to create a new security key through an already established connection SSL.
A German group called Choice said hackers exploit published to draw attention to flaws in SSL, which allows sensitive data to flow between Web sites and individual users' computers without being intercepted.
"We expect the SSL security on the fish does not go unnoticed," said an unidentified member of the group in a blog. "The industry should intervene to resolve the problem so that citizens are safe and secure again. SSL is to use a method of aging the protection of private data is complex, unnecessary and unfit for the 21st century."
The exploit still works on servers that have not enabled SSL renegotiation, the group said, but requires some modifications and more computers. The group said that the operation will allow a single laptop IBM to end media server in a standard DSL connection.
The tool is available on Unix and Windows binary code. The technical details are available here.
