TagsTagsThe irony is almost palpable: 4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online. The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan's status blog reported: "Site down due to ...
The FBI has served more than 40 search warrants in the investigation of the cyberattacks against several major financial institutions. 'Anonymous' is finding out how un-anonymous they really are. The F.B.I. investigation is part of a larger international inquiry into a loose confederation of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” that coordinated the ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous, Crime, FBI
The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing part of their criminal investigation of 'Operation Payback', leading to a raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29--As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, ...
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Here's a screen shot, showing what a small portion of today's DOS attack looked like in the Apache error log:
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After I posted the earlier article about the pro-Wikileaks non-organization "Anonymous" and their attack on the Bank of America website, and called them (with my usual tact) "vigilante morons," the non-organization's hive mind apparently decided to send a message to Little Green Footballs. I happened to be keeping an eye on ...
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And this morning, the non-organization of non-hackers who are everywhere and everyone is attacking the website of Bank of America. It's pretty obvious that these vigilante morons won't be allowed to continue doing this much longer. UPDATE at 12/27/10 11:08:29 am: And now, because I criticized them, 'anonymous' is attacking LGF. Hang in ...
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The software used by the pro-Wikileaks group "Anonymous" to attack Visa.com and other websites is known as "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" or LOIC; it was originally a stress-testing program designed to test how websites perform under high traffic loads. LOIC has since morphed into a DDOS attack tool that can ...
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This is very troubling news, as a gigantic Denial of Service attack briefly disabled three of the internet’s 13 “root” servers earlier today, including one that handles the Defense Department network: Hackers attack key Net traffic computers. WASHINGTON - Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help ...
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Jeff Goldstein is back and he’s proud, after a pair of DoS attacks took his site offline earlier: protein wisdom. UPDATE at 7/8/06 7:32:58 am: Nope, he’s still down. And it may have something to do with this: BLACKFIVE: A New Low.
Another DoS attack on Hosting Matters: Round Two - Hosting Matters Emergency Support Forum. We are seeing another round of attacks after changing the IPs on the target server. This is an indication that the target from earlier either was not the primary target or was a byproduct of the original ...