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Anonymous Twitter links cause DDoS attacks
SECURITY VENDOR Sophos has warned Twitter users that they could be launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by clicking on links.
The firm is warning users that a simple click on a link could be triggering a DDoS attack. It is specifically talking about hacktivist group Anonymous posting links to pastehtml.com.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos said, "In the past, Anonymous has encouraged supporters to install a program called LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) which allows computers to join in an attack on a particular website, blasting it with unwanted traffic."
"This time, things are slightly different: you only have to click on a web link to launch a DDoS attack."
According to Cluley if you click on one of the links, which are probably not limited to Twitter, and don't have Javascript enabled, you will immediately flood a web site with unwanted traffic. The web site target is, of course, selected by Anonymous.
This is illegal but probably easy to get around because users are potentially unaware of what they are doing. Earlier today the group hit out after the web site Megaupload was shut down by the authorities, targeting the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Department of Justice and more.
Cluley said, "Personally I find it much easier to support users and companies blacking out their websites for a day in protest against the SOPA/PIPA legislation than launching DDoS attacks against US government websites." µ
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If the FBI had been doing their job for the last 30 years we wouldn't be in this mess. Now the US gov is so corrupt hope and justice are only words.
Our former defenders of justice are now slaves to the criminals that occupy our Senate and Congressional seats.
The U.S. is pretty screwed up so perhaps the statement applies to 98% of their population.
The Real irony is this statement: The unscrupulous leading the brainless... What irony. Didnt you just totally and unequivably describe the United States of America?
Good! THEY DESERVE IT!! it's all BS...SOPA/PIPA were junk + MU arrest was unfair + I don't think swizz he has any legal connections to MU...imo it was all fabbed up to get other celebrity endorsements.
p.s. looks like someone is pissed - FBI vs ANONYMOUS video:
http://www.peeje.com/anonymous-hackers-we-legion-211/
With this "Trick" Anonymous, knowingly or not, gave the people that which has been used against them for years...
Plausible Deniability.
There is a reason why those on Twitter are called Twits. It should be obvious unless of course you're one of the inbred on Twitter.
It's good to see Anonymous duping the clueless on Twitter. The unscrupulous leading the brainless... What irony.
Name a great mind alive today that doesn't use twitter (excluding you of course).
Perhaps you should simply not go to MYV.com to get your twitter feeds?
A good old fashioned punishment that lets the injured parties mete out the punishment :
Catch the miscreants involved (the authorities DO know who most of them are) and start making examples of them. Not just jail/prison time for the crimes committed (DOJ attacka will earn these dimbulbs Federal Pen time) but also something appropriate and fitting.
Simply wire them upto the internet (electrodes to appropriate body parts and nice voltage unit to stimulate their repentance) and a website where ANYONE who was disadvantaged by the criminal's acts can click on a link/button to deliver a painful shock to the miscreant (for added effect a webcam will allow viewing of the criminal during punishment). If many people were damaged by the criminals acts, then MANY electrical shocks will be administered (and if some clever person links it to a popular link on twitter/whereever then ironic will be the criminals punishment).
Sufficiently creative punishments need to be created for these criminals who think that they can disrupt/deny the publics right to internet use.
If you're a Twit tweeting are you smart enough to come in out of the rain? No.
In the Sophos article, Cluley says that JavaScript must be DISABLED, not enabled, to prevent the attack.