Anonymous denial of service attacks see mixed results

THE HACKTIVIST COLLECTIVE Anonymous had mixed results with its assaults on Government web sites this past weekend.

This was the second weekend that the hacktivists have attacked Government web sites, and last weekend they successfully took down the Home Office web pages in a denial of service attack under an "Op Trial At Home" banner meant to raise awareness of bad extradition decisions.

#OpTrialAtHome We will be firing our Laz0rs at GCHQ.gov.uk 8pm GMT 14th April, We invite all #Anons again to join.

— AnonOpUK (@AnonOpUK) April 11, 2012

Anonymous announced attacks for last weekend, 14 April, at the start of last week and set GCHQ as a target. However it seems that GCHQ, which is the Government's spying agency, was a little too tough a target.

Although one part of the web site might have been overwhelmed for a short while, no accounts were able to boast about a total takedown.

UK Home Sec. Theresa May's website :"Internal server error... whhhooohhooo!" #OpTrialAtHome #Anonymous #AntiSec Live - spreaker.com/user/anonfamil…

— AnonNep (@AnonNep) April 14, 2012

Other targets were easier to knock over though, and the Home Office was targeted again and fell victim again, as was Home Secretary Theresa May's own web site. Other Anonymous Twitter accounts claimed that McDonalds.co.uk was also down.

A commentary on the attacks was streamed live, but the recording has since been removed. It was posted by someone calling him or her self Winston Smith in a nod, as you might expect, to George Orwell's 1984. µ