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donderdag, 9 december 2010 |
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Art for Today Mahmoud Farshchian Click on image:
Posted: 9:27:50 PM
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Be very careful and wise as serpents while DEMONstrating:
Starting December 6th, 2010, Operation Payback organizers focused their attention on DDoS attacks on websites of banks who had withdrawn banking facilities from WikiLeaks at the behest of the USA government, and the arrest of Julian Assange following the United States diplomatic cables leak.
During the 2010 MIPCOM convention, Gene Simmons of KISS stated: Make sure your brand is protected...Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don't let anybody cross that line. In response to Gene Simmons' encouragement of companies taking a more aggressive stance towards copyright infringement, members of Operation Payback switched their attentions to his two websites SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com, taking them both offline for a total of 1 day and 14 hours. At some point during the course of this DDoS, GeneSimmons.com was hacked and redirected to ThePirateBay.org, In response to the attack Simmons wrote: Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites being threatened by hackers. Our legal team and the FBI have been on the case and we have found a few, shall we say "adventurous" young people, who feel they are above the law. And, as stated in my MIPCOM speech, we will sue their pants off. First, they will be punished. Second, they might find their little butts in jail, right next to someone who's been there for years and is looking for a new girl friend. We will soon be printing their names and pictures. We will find you. You cannot hide. Stay tuned This led to additional attacks and subsequently more downtime for his websites. Later, Simmons's message was removed from his website. On December 8, 2010 Operation Payback's Facebook page was removed and their official Twitter account suspended. Also, the Operation Payback article Encyclopedia Dramatica wiki was deleted after the website received federal court orders to cease any further online documentation of the attacks. WikiLeaks In late 2010, the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks came under intense pressure to stop publishing secret United States diplomatic cables. In response, Anonymous announced its support for WikiLeaks.[81][82] Operation Payback changed its focus to support WikiLeaks and launched DDoS attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and the Swiss bank PostFinance, in retaliation for perceived anti-WikiLeaks behavior under the codename of Operation Avenge Assange. Due to the attacks, both MasterCard and Visa's websites were brought down on December 8th. A threat researcher at PandaLabs said Anonymous also launched an attack which brought down the Swedish prosecutor's website when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London and refused bail in relation to extradition to Sweden. Part 4 - by George If you cannot stop this, this "us versus them-business", you are just as bad and doing the same.
Posted: 5:25:34 PM
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