Quovadis Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 "Hackers Anonymous announced this afternoon that they would attack the web sites of Universal Music Group, the RIAA and the U.S. Department Of Justice. As of 6:30PM Thursday, a review of each site showed that the hackers had been successful. The attacks came in response to the government forced takedown of file sharing site Megaupload and the arrest of key executives. (Full story of the indictments here.) The Motion Picture Association Of America site had also been hacked but appeared restored by early evening. On their main Twitter acount, the hackers declared: "The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites! #Anonymous" and "The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites! #Anonymous"." Full Article Update: http://justice.gov/ DOWN http://www.universalmusic.com/ DOWN Warner Music Group http://www.wmg.com/ DOWN Hadopi http://www.hadopi.fr/DOWN Recording Industry Association of America, http://www.riaa.com/ DOWN Motion Picture Association of America. http://www.mpaa.org/ DOWN Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/ DOWN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JoeDirt Posted January 20, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 20, 2012 DDOS is not hacking. lol @ LOIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quovadis Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yeah I know , from what I know it consist of overflowing a server with too much demand or something like that(well I think , correct me if I am wrong) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strobel Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Update: http://justice.gov/ DOWN Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/ DOWN I love when they take down governmental sites. But FBI? That's a nice one from Anonymous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antichrist Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Only 2 out of the 7 are still down. I'm not impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiNoY Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yeah I know , from what I know it consist of overflowing a server with too much demand or something like that(well I think , correct me if I am wrong) Message overflowed. Law of demand and supply? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat0n Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lol Anonymous = kings of the fake. I'm surprised they finally succeeded anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Edit: nvm, I mistook the largest attack ever with the largest attack ever by anonymous Edited January 20, 2012 by jaie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KITE Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 5 out of 7 are down right now, I think they're doing a great job. Activism without harming people physically, they send a signal that proportions of the net dont want these laws; show their concern. That this is the largest attack mean that a lot of people are actually worried. Governments really have to take this into account, if they want too or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lol Anonymous = kings of the fake. I'm surprised they finally succeeded anything Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saizou Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Source: xkcd no. 932 On topic: I've heard somewhere that bringing Megaupload down reduced overall used internet bandwidth by 4%, does someone know if that's remotely true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year? 5 of them are down, as far as I can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JoeDirt Posted January 20, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 20, 2012 Source: xkcd no. 932 On topic: I've heard somewhere that bringing Megaupload down reduced overall used internet bandwidth by 4%, does someone know if that's remotely true? Nope what the Megaupload staff claimed is that they their users accounted for the 4% of the internet traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saizou Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 That's what I meant, I described it horribly tho. It's probably not true or way overblown as it's coming from MU, but 4% of traffic is just wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat0n Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year? Yeah, and it was big fail (or a big lie?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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