Blog Posts Tagged with "Denial of Service"
Operation Payback Launches DDoS Attack on Amazon
December 09, 2010 Added by:Headlines
According to a Tweet alleged to be from Operation Payback, the pro-WikiLeaks group has launched a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on Amazon.com in retaliation for Amazon canceling hosting services for WikiLeaks last week...
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WikiLeaks Denial of Service Wars Continue to Escalate
December 08, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Of note is the attack against website of Senator Joe Lieberman, who may have helped oust WikiLeaks from the protection Amazon servers offered, and the political action committee website of Sarah Palin after she issued statements that WikiLeaks' Julian Assange should be hunted like a terrorist. ..
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Operation Payback and 4chan Hit MasterCard - Twitter Is Next
December 08, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The hacker social network 4chan and Operation Payback are engaged in a flurry of DDoS in retaliation for any actions they deem intended to limit WikiLeaks operations. MasterCard is being targeted today, and a message on the 4chan forums indicates that the next target is Twitter...
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Bank Site Hit With DDoS Attack for Freezing WikiLinks Account
December 07, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Operation Payback, the rogue hacker network fighting stricter copyright laws, has launched a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against the Swiss bank PostFinance. The attacks are in retaliation for the bank having frozen the main defense fund account for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange...
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Operation Payback Launched DoS on PayPal Blog
December 05, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The international coalition of hackers know as Anonymous stated their intention to engage in DoS attacks against the blog of online interchange service PayPal. PayPal had announced it was suspending the fund-raising account of WikiLeaks for violation of the Acceptable Use Policy..
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WikiLeaks Loses Their Domain Names
December 03, 2010 Added by:Headlines
WikiLeaks lost the domain names Wikileaks.org and Cablegate.org, limiting access to the whistleblower website using the alphabetical web addresses. Amazon announced Wednesday they would no longer host the websites, but denies that it was because of pressure applied by Senator Joe Lieberman...
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Amazon Boots WikiLeaks After Relentless Attacks
December 01, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The Associated Press is reporting that Amazon has ceased hosting the beleaguered WikiLeaks after relentless denial of service (DoS) attacks against the whistleblower website...
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Hacker "The Jester" Reports Raid By Law Enforcement
December 01, 2010 Added by:Headlines
There are unconfirmed reports that infamous anti-jihadi hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r), who earlier this week claimed responsibility for a denial of service attack that temporarily disabled the WikiLeaks website, was the subject of a search and equipment seizure by law enforcement...
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WikiLeaks Suffers a Second More Powerful DoS Attack
November 30, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
The WikiLeaks Twitter account displays the messages, "We are currently under another DDoS attack," and "DDoS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second," which dwarfs the 2-4 Gbps attack perpetrated by self-proclaimed "patriot hacker" known only as The Jester (th3j35t3r)...
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The Jester Hits WikiLeaks Site With XerXeS DoS Attack
November 29, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Infamous hacker The Jester is claiming responsibility for a DoS attack that disabled WikiLeaks hours before the release of thousands of documents. The WikiLeaks Twitter account said, "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," for several hours on Sunday...
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WikiLeaks Hit By Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
November 28, 2010 Added by:Headlines
WikiLeaks, the secret-sharing website that has been plaguing the U.S. government with the release of thousands of classified documents, allegedly suffered a denial of service (DoS) attack that took it offline just hours before the scheduled release of more embarrassing records...
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Alert: New OpenSSL Vulnerability
November 18, 2010 Added by:Brent Huston
A new security issue in OpenSSL should be on the radar of your security team. Stunnel and Apache are NOT affected, many other packages appear to be. The issue allows denial of service and possibly remote code execution. Patches for OpenSSL and packages that use it are starting to roll in...
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Exclusive Video of XerXeS DoS Attack
February 22, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Infosec Island has gained exclusive access to a video demonstration of the XerXeS DoS attack as it is unleashed on the Taliban website www.alemarah.info, and carried out by infamous patriot hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r).
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More Talks with Anti-Jihadi Hacker The Jester
February 04, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anti-jihadi hactivist The Jester (th3j35t3r), the self-proclaimed Nicest Hacker in the World, has returned for part two of our conversation concerning his campaign of intermittent disruption of militant pro-jihad websites.
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Hacktivist Tactics Raise Ethical Questions
January 27, 2010 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Recently we have witnessed the emergence of international hactivist and vigilante “the Jester” through his crusade against jihadi and militant Islamic networks...Jester’s activities raise an important question: Where do cyber vigilantes fall on the infosec ethics spectrum?
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Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack
July 08, 2009 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
According to an article by the Assoiated Press, and subsequently the Washington Post, several Government agencies in the US and South Korea were under attack by roughly 60,000 infected PCs across the globe.
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