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Anonymous wants DDoS attacks to be a legal shape of protest

A petition was posted found on the White House’s website by Anonymous, that is looking to have DDoS attacks become a legal shape of protest. Distributed denial-of-service attacks are not hacking, the group claims, however are rather the equivalent of “hitting the refresh switch about a website.” In doing this, the protesters are occupying a digital area much like a protester outside of the bodily company. The petition is found over at the White House’s We the People page, where it currently has 775 signatures. Per the website’s FAQ, the petition has to reach 25,000 signatures in 25 days inside purchase to be reviewed by the White Home. To meet this requirement, it currently requirements a small over 24,000 signatures by February 6. Says the petition: “With the advance inside web techonology [sic], comes fresh grounds for protesting. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), is not any shape of hacking in almost any [...]

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Posted by admin - January 10, 2013 at 1:25 pm

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Anonymous Disrupts UK Government Sites

By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld    Apr 8, 2012 11:07 AM Three UK government websites, including one for the country’s Prime Minister, were attacked by the hacker collective Anonymous late Saturday night in protest of extradition of British citizens to the United States and of a proposed law to broaden the snooping powers of the government there. The hacktivists disrupted traffic at three sites — homeoffice.gov.uk (Home Office), number10.gov.uk (Prime Minister’s Office) and justice.gov.uk (Ministry of Justice) — through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks take a website offline by flooding it with more traffic than it can handle. All the government sites appeared to be functioning normally on Sunday morning. Anonymous also identified the personal website of Home Secretary Theresa May as a target and mounted an assault on the site for the U.S. House of Representatives. The attack on May’s site never materialized and the [...]

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Posted by admin - April 9, 2012 at 11:33 am

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Anonymous launches attack against ‘Irish SOPA’

Irish government sites taken down including the finance and justice departments Anonymous, the collective of internet activists, has struck again with its latest cause – action against copyright legislation in Ireland. Currently, a statutory instrument – a change in law which doesn’t require approval from Parliament – is being pushed through swiftly over in Ireland. And that instrument aims to achieve SOPA-like goals of making it easier for copyright holders to block websites deemed to have violated their intellectual property. There’s currently concern over whether this, like SOPA, is a rather blunt instrument which is overreaching and could be abused when it comes to shutting sites down, threatening freedom of speech on the web. Anonymous has certainly made its feelings felt on the matter, with targeted distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) launched at Irish government websites in a campaign dubbed #OpIreland. DDoS isn’t hacking the sites, merely bombarding them [...]

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Posted by admin - January 27, 2012 at 1:46 pm

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Anonymous makes charitable donations using stolen credit card details

Christmas is said to be a time of giving, except that for hacking group Anonymous it appears to involve the use of other people’s credit cards. The group, which appears to have recently hacked servers belonging to security think tank Stratfor, is said to be planning to donate around $ 1 million to various charities in the coming days. Hacktivist collective Anonymous appears to have been making charitable donations to a number of organizations using credit card information stolen from US-based security think tank Stratfor. According to a Telegraph report, one of the alleged perpetrators said the hack marked the beginning of what will be a week-long series of similar attacks, with the aim of using gathered credit card data to make further Christmas donations to the tune of $ 1 million. Posts on a Twitter feed linked to the group suggested it had pulled more than 200GB worth of [...]

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Posted by admin - December 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm

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