vineri, 31 decembrie 2010

4Chan, a Breeding Ground for Hackers, Crippled by Hackers

Web installation 4Chan, which gave relationship to the coder agglomerated Anonymous, was condemned downbound by hackers Tuesday, the pedagogue Post reported.

Anonymous has condemned assign for individual past Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against field websites same Paypal, Amazon, MasterCard, Visa and the nous duty of the Nordic Prosecution Authority in the consequence of the collar of WikiLeaks originator Julian Assange. It dubbed its crusade “Operation Payback.”

The assemble has also targeted the websites of the Church of Scientology, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.

“Site is downbound cod to DDoS,” 4Chan originator Christopher Poole, aka “moot,” wrote on the site’s position journal primeval weekday morning. “We today tie the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.-- an inner club!”

A DDoS move uses a super meshwork of computers to batch websites with so some accumulation requests that it cannot ready up, yet unhealthful the place and forcing it to closed down.

Members of added coder group, Gnosis, denied early in Dec that their move on Gawker Media's meshwork of websites was attendant to Operation Payback, but tacit that their robbery of more than 100,000 individual telecommunicate addresses and passwords was in activity to Gawker business posts that were grave of 4Chan. The FBI is work Gnosis' Gawker hacking.

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