Sweet mother of fuck:
http://www.securityweek.com/brian-krebs-blog-hit-665-gbps-ddos-attack

Akamai dropped him once the attack was over. Guess they couldn't take the heat...

Oh god. Now we're all gonna get fired

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

Haahaha, DDoS!

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Jinx:
because ddos is hacking like crowding the entrance to a bank is a bank robbery.

Hacking is now an all inclusive term, it just means anything we don't approve of done with a computer. The news can't educate anyone, and the term keeps being used ad nauseam. Sometimes I get lectured by older people on the dangers of hacking, it's sad that they have know education on the subject yet they choose to inform others.
EDIT: By the way there is a documentary coming out about Anonymous and their effect on our society. It looks to me like it's full of itself, saying that Anon is now seriously influencing geopolitics. I don't see any changes brought about by Anon so I'm not really sure how the movie will present it's thesis. It seems to me that the world talks about Hackers with a sort of awe, and some of the hackers are buying into it.

It annoys me how full of it they seem to be. DDOS is the online equivalent of turning up on the street outside of a business with signs and protesting. Its fitting in this online world that we should have online activism but calling it hacking (ok, I guess if they are running a botnet then you might just about define that as hacking) really only serves to delegitmise any cause whilst simultaneously giving the anons a false sense of importance or power. They need to realise that their actions, while perhaps well intentioned, are still only really a mild inconvenience and they shouldn't let their message be distorted by the medias poor attempt to label them. My 2 cents anyway.

>> ^Jinx:

because ddos is hacking like crowding the entrance to a bank is a bank robbery.


Hacking is now an all inclusive term, it just means anything we don't approve of done with a computer. The news can't educate anyone, and the term keeps being used ad nauseam. Sometimes I get lectured by older people on the dangers of hacking, it's sad that they have know education on the subject yet they choose to inform others.

EDIT: By the way there is a documentary coming out about Anonymous and their effect on our society. It looks to me like it's full of itself, saying that Anon is now seriously influencing geopolitics. I don't see any changes brought about by Anon so I'm not really sure how the movie will present it's thesis. It seems to me that the world talks about Hackers with a sort of awe, and some of the hackers are buying into it.

because ddos is hacking like crowding the entrance to a bank is a bank robbery.

A little background info on the stuff discussed in this post. Not everyone is fluent or comfortable with tech talk and that's ok. I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any questions.

Q - What is DNS?
A - Humans work well with names and computer work well with numbers. Think of the Domain Name System as the official translator between the two. The time it takes for a DNS "lookup" to happen is VERY fast and unless it's broken...the process is seamless.

Q - What is a hosts file?
A - The hosts file works much like DNS. BUT... instead of relying on another computer to translate videosift.com into 216.18.199.34, you are overriding that step with specific instructions.

More Info:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/03/dns-ip-ddos-explained

http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html

I dig that sentiment, too!

>> ^vaire2ube:

see if you can eradicate Fear and Greed, too, while we are aiming for the sky. Misguided to think picking the lowest fruit to DDoS/etc (internet distribution) will ever do anything to curb mentally ill people who live in "reality" and actually make this stuff.
Far better to go after the corporations that rape us all, and keep people poor so that they have no resources to prevent or report child abuse.
But, yea.

see if you can eradicate Fear and Greed, too, while we are aiming for the sky. Misguided to think picking the lowest fruit to DDoS/etc (internet distribution) will ever do anything to curb mentally ill people who live in "reality" and actually make this stuff.

Far better to go after the corporations that rape us all, and keep people poor so that they have no resources to prevent or report child abuse.

But, yea.

Anonymous advised its members to protect their online identities, and not to wear the traditional Anonymous mask in public, or even purchase them online, as a core group decides if it should take on a Mexican drug cartel that is said to have kidnapped a member of the group.

The hacker group had earlier threatened to expose the identity of members and supporters of a Mexican drug cartel by Nov. 5, in retaliation for the kidnapping of a group member, and hacked the web site of a former state official, alleging that he has associations with the dreaded Zetas cartel.

But there are fissures showing among the leaders as fear of handling the drug cartel builds up, with some expressing concern that new, inexperienced members could get quickly exposed and compromised.

The action has been cancelled, Sm0k34n0n wrote in a Twitter message in Spanish on Monday. High-profile colleague anonymouSabu described sm0k34n0n as one of the campaign's promoters in another Twitter message. But other groups from Latin America are said to be considering a core action group, and warning other members to stay away. AnonymouSabu was all for the action late Sunday.

A video in Spanish posted on YouTube on October 6 by a person calling himself "MrAnonymousguyfawkes", threatened that Anonymous will publish the names, photos, and addresses of police officials, journalists, and taxi drivers that collaborate with the drug cartel, hoping the government will arrest them.

"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him. And if anything happens to him, you (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5th," said a masked person in the video, according to a translation provided by another user of YouTube.

November 5 is known in the U.K. as Guy Fawkes day after his November 5, 1605, conspiracy to attempt to blow up the British Parliament. The Guy Fawkes mask, popularized by the movie V for Vendetta, has been adopted by Anonymous.

Anonymous claimed on Sunday to have defaced the website of a former official in the Mexican state of Tabasco. On Monday, the website bore a message in Spanish by Anonymous Mexico stating that he was a part of Zetas.

"We all know who they are and where they are," said the speaker in the video. Anonymous did not however claim that its hacking skills gave it special access to information on the cartel. Nor are its traditional tactics such as DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on websites likely to be of use against armed gangs, according to various analysts.

The drug cartel has killed people who have criticized them on blogs and other social media, according to reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists in New York reported in September the murder of a journalist in direct retaliation for information posted on social media.

As newspapers are censored by fear, Mexican citizens, and many journalists, are turning to social media and online forums to share news and inform each other, said Sara Rafsky, a research associate in CPJ's Americas program. "So it should be no shock that drug cartels are turning their attention to the Internet."
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/242845/anonymous_threatens_to_expose_mexican_drug_cartel.html

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by Boise_Lib.

15 people were arrested for taking part in ddos attacks, which are the virtual equivalent of walking into a store with a 1000 friends and buying nothing. they're facing $500,000 lawsuits and 15 years in prison.

how do you propose we, the people, hold a board of directors accountable for their actions? what steps exactly can we legally take? usually when a group of people disagrees with the actions of a corporate entity, they organize a boycott of the goods/services said entity is providing. your entire last paragraph was not thought out entirely. and a reeked of a typical protofascist cop-out. turn off your corporate medias, son.
>> ^critical_d:

what in particular are you talking about when you say "virtual version of walking into a store and not purchasing anything?"?
The hillbilly analogy was used as an example of punishing an individual (the drunk) versus punishing a faceless company like PayPal. By punishing Paypal (taking down their site) you are punishing the people who work there and the investors who own the company. Do they deserve punishment because of the decisions of a few at that company? Shouldn't we hold the leaders or directors responsible instead?
>> ^peggedbea:
>> ^critical_d:
When will we stop romanticizing the vigilante acts of a group of people who aim a LOIC at a website and press go?
I am in no way defending the targets or their actions that caused them to fall under the crosshairs. But PayPal is not a hillbilly with a who drank too much at the bar, got a blowjob from a hooker, and came home to beat the wife cuz dinner wasn't ready. People who don't deserve to be punished are...and that sucks.

romanticizing? or supporting? ...and hopefully never.
the drunk hillbilly analogy makes very little sense.
who exactly is punished? people who couldn't access their paypal accounts for a few hours?? inconvienced maybe, punished? not quite.
or are you talking about the 20 year old kids who are facing $500,000 law suits and 15 years in prison for what is the virtual version of walking into a store and not purchasing anything? beacuse yeah, that does fucking suck.

when will people stop sounding like protofascist drones and reclaim their innate ability to think critically and be free?
what's happening here is so much bigger than bored teenagers fucking shit up for a day. it's a new current in radical movements. there's always been radical activity under the surface of any dominate power structure, and hopefully their always will be. this is the fist time in history it's been so able to truly be a global force. and that my friend, is fucking huge... a few hundred thousand kids, world wide, understand the technology so much better than any corporate/governmental IT division. they're writing the fucking code. this is the kind of movement that i think really has staying power, and it will be impossible for either political party just absorb some of the ideology into their platform to placate it, like they do with all movements that gain any sort of momentum.

>> ^dag:

Look, I wasn't personally abusive to the guy, but he's a representative of his company - and I think his potential Australian customers have a right to know that Amazon may not be a good place for their sensitive data.
>> ^campionidelmondo:
That poor guy most likely had no hand in the shutdown of the WikiLeaks servers, I don't see how he deserves to be heckled. Also, it's just a (conspiracy) theory that they shut down the WikiLeaks servers because of the US Gov't, or because of massive DDOS attacks.
Very likely Amazon told the guy to refer to their statement if any questions about WikiLeaks arise. I dunno, it's a free seminar, don't ruin it for the people who actually go there for constructive reasons.



Meanwhile, the guy will probably go back to his boss and say something to the effect of, "man, that meeting was pretty intense. These guys want way more than just tech specs, they want assurance that the service will be quality on a lot of levels. One guy even mentioned our role in wikileaks."

And here's what his boss will hear, "blah, blah, blah, you should hold a meeting about where you want to eat lunch today."

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Look, I wasn't personally abusive to the guy, but he's a representative of his company - and I think his potential Australian customers have a right to know that Amazon may not be a good place for their sensitive data.
>> ^campionidelmondo:

That poor guy most likely had no hand in the shutdown of the WikiLeaks servers, I don't see how he deserves to be heckled. Also, it's just a (conspiracy) theory that they shut down the WikiLeaks servers because of the US Gov't, or because of massive DDOS attacks.
Very likely Amazon told the guy to refer to their statement if any questions about WikiLeaks arise. I dunno, it's a free seminar, don't ruin it for the people who actually go there for constructive reasons.

That poor guy most likely had no hand in the shutdown of the WikiLeaks servers, I don't see how he deserves to be heckled. Also, it's just a (conspiracy) theory that they shut down the WikiLeaks servers because of the US Gov't, or because of massive DDOS attacks.

Very likely Amazon told the guy to refer to their statement if any questions about WikiLeaks arise. I dunno, it's a free seminar, don't ruin it for the people who actually go there for constructive reasons.