Internet war - discussion time

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I was procrastinating today and bumped into a news article (http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,2 3107452-5014239,00.html). A coordinated group appears that it has DoS'd the Church/Cult of Scientology. Not that I am on either side, but this is one of the first Internet related wars to my knowledge and it might be cool to sit on the sidelines and watch the carnage. The attacking force has warned that January 30 is going to be a day of action. I will keep trawling and see what I can find around that day. If it get's good maybe RA can write a script and sell it to Hollywood to fund more RA gear - should be a good flick and depending on how it all pans out, Tom Cruise might be available for a lead role :p

[Aukiman]

lol yeah seen that happening, the hackers look pretty organised on this one. Not a bunch u wanna mess with ! :)

[Caboose]

go teh hax0rs, 1337 til the end baby :P

[Revhed]

Hmmm, an article here has a senior security analyst describing the attack as "average"

I don't think I'd like to be on the end of a 40GB per second attack - but I guess it depends on how big your internet pipe is :)

Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220M bps of traffic, according to Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, whose company compiles data on Internet attacks.

The Anonymous campaign shows some level of organization. "220M bps is probably about in the middle of attack sizes," Nazario said. "It's not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this."

On average, the attacks lasted about 30 minutes and used up 168M bps of bandwidth. In the past year, Arbor has seen attacks on other sites hit 40G bps, or 200 times the strength of the Anonymous event.



Full Article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141839-c,hackers/article.html

[blackberry]

lol so bigger IS better ! I knew it !

[Caboose]

wow 40gbps.......thats alot.....wouldn't mind that for my d/l speed :D:D

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Nice follow up Rev!

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http://www.snpx.com/cgi-bin/news55.cgi?target=www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/ 255205214?-1313

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23 212002-5014239,00.html