Hackvists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data
cyberscoop.com
A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election.

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses.

The attack was carried out as part of SiegedSec’s “OpTransRights,” campaign, which has previously included the defacement of government websites and data theft from states either considering or implementing anti-abortion or anti-trans legislation.

SiegedSec, which emerged on Telegram in April 2022, has also targeted various NATO portals, the city of Fort Worth and a company involved in the monitoring of offshore oil and gas facilities.

  • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45•4 months ago

    Why are so many of these idiots using hideously outdated web browsers?

    The amount of Windows XP and Windows Vista user agents is outstanding. There’s even a few people using PPC based Macs.

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
      14•4 months ago

      There’s even a few people using PPC based Macs.

      They still run modern OpenBSD (and maybe Linux) well, not that any of these people do that lol. My PC laptop broke recently and all I have for mobile stuff is an old Powerbook now (very nice machines tbh)

      That being said, compiling Firefox or Chrom{e,ium} is now an impossible task on any machine with less than 4 GB of RAM agony-deep. Will have to see if I can get Firefox to build in an emulator and run that on a real machine, assuming all the Rust/LLVM infrastructure even works on PowerPC cuz no one cares anymore :(

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12•4 months ago

        There is (or was) a fork of Firefox with a bunch of security patches back ported to it for Mac OS 10.4. Lemmy won’t work on it, but most non PWA/insane javascript based websites will.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
          10•4 months ago

          RIP TenFourFox :(

          Honestly so impressive they supported it as long as they did, web browsers are ridiculously complicated. Must have been a ton of work to keep it running on ancient PowerPC Mac OS X

            • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
              8•4 months ago

              Yehhh :(

              My Powerbook is still the most nicely built laptop I have ever had and I got it for like 20$ on Ebay

              Not to mention the cool as hell hardware and Open Firmware implementation (why couldn’t we get Open Firmware everywhere instead of UEFI kitty-birthday-sad or even worse… U-Boot)

              If you’re not familiar, Open Firmware is like a PC BIOS with a full text-based programming environment embedded in it

              You can even write drivers in it and have the operating system use those

              • ashinadash [she/her]English
                7•4 months ago

                Yo what’s Open Firmware? When would Apple have something open, yeah I did not know that was a thing, that sounds like it slaps. What made Apple adopt this???

                • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
                  7•4 months ago

                  Open Firmware is a specification for software built into your computer that brings all the hardware up and boots your operating system. On PCs, there was/is something analogous called the BIOS but Intel has made something more modern called UEFI (which I don’t know too much about tbh)

                  What makes Open Firmware so cool is you get a full Forth programming environment (stack-based programming language) to work with within moments of turning on your computer which makes it really versatile. I’m not too sure of the exact history but when Apple, IBM, Motorola were developing the PowerPC architecture in the 90s and they needed some kind of standard software to bring up their computers they decided on an Open Firmware implementation

                  Maybe I should write a longer post about it

                  And brb, made plans to touch-grass with friend

                  • ashinadash [she/her]English
                    5•4 months ago

                    I will read and upbear that post, sounds rad :)

                    So aside from just being a Bios But Cooler, what’re the actual practical applications of having a Forth environment at boot? I’m picturing somethin like the boot disks for old microcomputers, which were iirc much closer to hardware than something like Windoze.