“Hacktivists” hack for Wikileaks / Waging Nonviolence. A member of Anonymous who calls himself Coldblood told the BBC that “multiple things are being done”. “Websites that are bowing down to government pressure have become targets,” he said. “As an organisation we have always taken a strong stance on censorship and freedom of expression on the internet and come out against those who seek to destroy it by any means.” “We feel that Wikileaks has become more than just about leaking of documents, it has become a war ground, the people vs. the government,” he said.So far the denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which swamp a site with so many requests that it becomes overwhelmed, have failed to take any sites offline although that is not the point of the attack, according to Coldblood.
“The idea is not to wipe them off but to give the companies a wake-up call,” he said. The environment of digital activism certainly raises new questions of where to draw lines between violence and nonviolence, between Satyagraha and a riot. Anonymous DDoS swoop results in five arrests | Security. Police have arrested five young men on suspicion of taking part in distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by Anonymous, the group that has targeted corporate sites for attack in defence of Wikileaks. The Metropolitan Police have arrested five young men in connection with DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous. Photo credit: Metropolitan Police The five, who are aged between 15 and 26, were detained at 7am on Thursday at addresses in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London, the Metropolitan Police Central eCrime Unit (PCeU) said in a statement.
The suspects were taken to local police stations and remain in custody, the police added. The Anonymous group of activists undertook a number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks last year, using a tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) to try to overwhelm servers. The police said the arrests were made as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation being carried out internationally. CNN: WikiLeaks 'Why Anonymous Matters' Interview :: Вы смотрите канал: KryeWolf :: :: Видео на RuTube - Police arrest five over Anonymous WikiLeaks attacks | Technology. Five people were arrested yesterday in connection with a spate of online attacks last month in support of WikiLeaks.
Police said the five males, aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26, were arrested in a series of raids at 7am in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London. All five are being held in custody at local police stations. The five were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the group of "hacktivists" known as Anonymous, who temporarily crippled the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after those companies cut off financial services to WikiLeaks. The attacks followed the whistleblowing site's release of US diplomatic cables. The distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, which bring down sites by bombarding them with repeated requests to load webpages, are illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act and carry a maximum fine of £5,000.
"You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. PAYBACK. Detail: Boucher, Toilet of Venus I’m currently mulling intellectual property law, the importance of copyright, and Anonymous, all whom I respect. Prosecuting a granny for downloading songs: You’re doing it wrong. One Huge Industry Giant wrote: Headlines about a grandmother being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars did not properly present the big picture, and they were terrible PR for the industry. He’s right. Some Anonymous are getting very DdoSy via Operation Payback which to me seems a bit misplaced and possibly short-sighted. I’ll give you my Space Food Stick if I can crib off your math test is making a deal; lifting off someone’s page without permission (or attribution, or a processed food snack) is cheating.
The studios, at least in Bollywood who admits to it, hired their own private DDoS service, which went and boasted on their gig, hoisting themselves on their own petard, only to fall like a T. rex toe-walking Chihuahua. Sonny Bono is an interesting case. FBI raids Texas hosting company for WikiLeaks DDOS attackers. December 30, 2010, 11:51 AM — The FBI raided a Texas server-hosting company Dec. 16, looking for evidence the hactivist group "Anonymous" had used its servers to launch DDOS attacks on PayPal earlier this month, according to an affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun. Agents with search warrants giving them the right to seize records relating to the attacks copied the contents of hard drives on at least one server belonging to Tailor Made Servers, in Carrolton, Tex., a suburb of Dallas The raid was part of an investigation into "Operation Payback," a series of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other sites by groups referring to themselves as "4Chan" or "Anonymous" in response to the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Assange was arrested outside London for investigation of sexual assault charges in Sweden, but which many activists called persecution for WikiLeaks' release of classified U.S. State Dept. diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks Backers ‘Anonymous’ to Be Probed by U.S. Grand Jury - Businessweek - WikiLeaks Tsunami. Hunting Anonymous | Anti-Forensics. The FBI has received logs containing IP addresses that took part in the Denial of Service attacks on various corporations including PayPal and Mastercard. Arrests have been made already.
Not many, but you’re talking about a bureaucracy here, where they waste a lot of time. So more may be coming. So, maybe you took part in the attacks and used LOIC from your home computer? What does this mean exactly? I can tell you. Here is a general outline of what happened if your IP was reported: If the trail of evidence happened to lead back to your home and the pheds decide to raid your home, they will seize all digital media. If you’re lucky they won’t shoot your dog or mother holding the TV remote when they kick down your door. So what can someone in this situation do? 1. 2. 3. Personally, I like the wiping approach. 4. Have a blank CD? Download: Here’s the official TrueCrypt website. Download: Updates: Anonymous Attacks Swiss Bank After Assange's Account Closed. The Anonymous group of hacktivists is making good on its promise to attack those helping to censor WikiLeaks, the latest victim being PostFinance, who’s website has become the target of distributed denial of service (DDoS) after the Swiss bank closed the account of Julian Assange.
In the latest move of what already starts to look as a harassment campaign against WikiLeaks orchestrated by various businesses and governments around the world, PostFinance decided to suspend the personal bank account of WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. The bank alleged that Assange, who doesn’t have a stable residence and moves around the world a lot, used his lawyers’ Geneva address to set up the account, which is against the terms of the contract. The bank said Assange's account came under scrutiny because he became a high profile individual and that it plans to transfer the funds (31,000 euros according to WikiLeaks), to another account of his choosing.