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Subject: [ISN] Operation Global Blackout: Real danger or irrelevant?
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-03-29 8:57:54
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By Taylor Armerding
CSO
March 28, 2012
Will the hacker group Anonymous make good on its threat to take down the
Internet Saturday? Probably not. But it could slow it down, according to
a number of security experts. And it may depend in part on how unified
Anonymous is about the attack -- there are some indications of divisions
within the group.
Anonymous has threatened retaliation for the arrests of about 25 of its
members last month, and is also focused on what its members believe is a
continuing threat by Congress to censor the Internet through revised
versions of the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the companion Senate
bill called the Protect IP Act (PIPA), even though the legislation was
put on hold in January.
And it is essentially daring anyone to stop Operation Global Blackout --
the group announced March 31 as the date of the attack, along with the
method they intend to use -- disabling the Domain Name Service through
distributed denial of service attacks on the root servers of the DNS
with an attack tool called "ramp," which stands for "reflective
amplification." While two of the basic rules of hacking are: Don't tell
your target in advance and don't give away your methods, Radware
security vice president Carl Herberger says the announcement is a
classic Anonymous tactic.
"They are not financially motivated," he says. "They're after behavioral
changes -- things like trying to stop SOPA. In that case, you almost by
definition have to file your grievance -- tell them you're angry with
them. They also like to boast of how effective they are, and how the
rest of the world is not worthy of their technical talents."
[...]
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