Hacker offers to shut Putin's website

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Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Saturday June 12, 2004
The Guardian

Snip:

In the spirit of the free market computer hackers in Russia have put their services up for sale, offering to "take out" any website for a price.

Several hackers have posted a menu of services on the internet. The most popular is a Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, in which a website and server can be disabled by being bombarded with emails and other information.

These tactics have been used against large software companies such as Microsoft, disliked by some hackers for its monopoly on software. The MyDoom.B virus was used to try to shut down the website Microsoft.com through a DDoS attack earlier this year. The hackers' services were easily found by the Guardian.

One, forum.carderplanet.cc, carries a request from a user called jm electron, who seeks "people who can do quite powerful DDoS attacks". TomCat replies that he is able to assist.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1237083,00.html


Hope those DU firewalls are rock solid........

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1. OMG

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2. I believe that story has some factual errors.

DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service, not Direct.

E-mail bombing will not do a DDoS, especially if there is no email server. I may be wrong about this though..

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3. good points

I read an article about Shrek 2 citing the visual brilliance of "CGI, or Common Gateway Interface". I think reporters are leaning on Google for their deadlines.