Anonymous Asks For DDoS Attack On Key Egyptian Sites

[Joanne98]

Source: International Business Times

The group Anonymous, known for staging web attacks on PayPal and MasterCard in support of Wikileaks, has called for volunteers to stage a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against web sites run by the Egyptian government.

The group's Facebook page, called "Operation Egypt" carries messages about the Egyptian protests, and also a picture of a recruiting poster with an IRC channel as well as a "care package" to download. The rest of the page has news and updates from Egyptian and foreign sources.

Clicking on the info page leads to a site that says it is AnonOps, a group that was formed from within the collective that launched the attacks on PayPal. However, they say they did not attack any web sites.

Meanwhile the group has asked, via the IRC chat rooms, that users access a web-based version of a program called Low Orbit Ion Cannon or download it, according to reports from netcraft.com, which publishes news on online security. The software stages DDoS attacks and was originally written as a stress-testing application.



Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/105248/20110126/anonymous-asks-for-ddos-attack-on-key-egyptian-sites.htm

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"The sites slated for attack, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Ministry of the Interior"

[xchrom]

1. this should be interesting. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. They are really wading into some dangerous territory now...

Not commenting on the morality of anything they might do, just that when you go after another government's official sites, there is usually hell to pay--from allied governments, if not the one targeted.

And yes, this should become interesting.

[Lint Head]

7. It's just as moral as killing people during war.

[hlthe2b]

8. As I specifically stated... I am making no comment on the morality.

[Myrina]

3. ... why don't they clear out TransUnion of Equifax ...

... and re-set everyone in the US's credit scores to 1000? Jus' askin' .... :shrug:

[no limit]

4. Because DOS attacks don't let people change or access any data

they simply flood the website with traffic. Any idiot with a large following and a simple computer program can do this. Whereas actually getting access to private databases is a totally different matter. Think of this as hitting refresh on a website, just doing it thousands of times a second on thousands of different computers spread around the globe.

[iamthebandfanman]

6. yeah, im pretty confused on the glorification

of these acts as they arent really that complex... anybody can do it.

in the 90s these guys would have been laughed at by the online community, but apparently to people who know nothing about computers they are godly.

have enough friends with a enough boxes and youre good to go.

i had a friend back in 96/97 who liked to mess with our local ISP and DOS its DNS server ;)

the fact they are asking people to download a program to do it is proof enough... i mean , how hard is it to type in one command at a prompt ?

[iamthebandfanman]

5. i really dont understand the point of this...

dos attacks are just not as cool as some people would like to think.

you know, in the 90s people in the know on the internet would make fun of people who used it.

oh how i miss the days of windows 95/98 and havack a dos could cause