HuskyCaucasian Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 A group of elite hackers known as "Anonymous" has announced a war on Scientology. Last week they announced their intentions via a YouTube video (shown below) and last weekend took the Scientology website down for the entire weekend! More information is available in this Wired.com article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsideirish71 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 (edited) QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 11:23 AM) A group of elite hackers known as "Anonymous" has announced a war on Scientology. Last week they announced their intentions via a YouTube video (shown below) and last weekend took the Scientology website down for the entire weekend! More information is available in this Wired.com article. DDoS attacks and defacements on the corporate website are more annoyances than anything. Large scale ones are rare. I was subjected to one at a company for 3 months. And it slowed that circuit down. We moved all of our operations within a day to another internet circuit they didnt know about. We were up and running and they were pissing into the wind. Most companies that have money or a group like this that has unlimited funds doesnt keep their website and their companies infrastructure on the same subnet or same circuits. Now if they were able to get some malware that fortified itself behind their firewalls, that could call out sure that would be something. But again, we are assuming that their internet security people are asshats and allow everyone internally to go anywhere the want. This attack most likely will be an annoyance, but I doubt if this does anything to their operations. My feeling is this group of kiddies watched Z3r0 C00l on the movie Hackers one two many times. Most hacking groups dont announce their intentions to the world. All you need to do is to look into the spam botnet industry. Hackers are into making money now, not being the savior of mankind. Edited January 25, 2008 by southsideirish71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 4chan is the equivalent of hell on the internet. And this is hardly new, they've been doing this for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 (edited) I love Anon: http://www.newsweek.com/id/109410 Although all of it is misinformation in that article, it's still funny to see them get front page press on MSNBC. Protests at every Scientology church nationwide on February 10th. I really hope they can bring the church down once and for all, and I believe they will. Edited February 9, 2008 by Buehrle>Wood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsideirish71 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 08:22 PM) I love Anon: http://www.newsweek.com/id/109410 Although all of it is misinformation in that article, it's still funny to see them get front page press on MSNBC. Protests at every Scientology church nationwide on February 10th. I really hope they can bring the church down once and for all, and I believe they will. If I was in charge of security for scientology I would mess with these goofs. I would start by separating my web sites from my production network, it should be from the beginning anyway. Then I would take a version of my site, and hire 10 different hosting facilities around the US to host this. I would set the ttl for my zone to expire every 10 seconds, and then would setup round robin DNS for the resolution for my site. When they attack, it would spread across the 10 sites while my network is not getting touched. After these douches are sending their attacks into the abyss you can put up another site that says COS 1 - Script Kiddies 0. If you really want to have fun, call the FBI and give them permission to tap everyone of these sites as you have received a CyberTerrorism threat. When the FBI catches the script kiddies who run this you can then go back to having your site up, and you can laugh at them in person when they get sentenced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 9, 2008 -> 03:40 AM) If I was in charge of security for scientology I would mess with these goofs. I would start by separating my web sites from my production network, it should be from the beginning anyway. Then I would take a version of my site, and hire 10 different hosting facilities around the US to host this. I would set the ttl for my zone to expire every 10 seconds, and then would setup round robin DNS for the resolution for my site. When they attack, it would spread across the 10 sites while my network is not getting touched. After these douches are sending their attacks into the abyss you can put up another site that says COS 1 - Script Kiddies 0. If you really want to have fun, call the FBI and give them permission to tap everyone of these sites as you have received a CyberTerrorism threat. When the FBI catches the script kiddies who run this you can then go back to having your site up, and you can laugh at them in person when they get sentenced. I have no idea in regards to specifics of the situation, but the Anon hackers know what they are doing. I know they've hacked into government resources before, most famously when they hacked into 100s of embasys worldwide at once. But on another note, Anon isn't a group of hackers despite what the media is saying. There are a few, sure, but it's really a group(to use the term loosely) comprised of probably millions of people worldwide who aren't actually anonymous at all. No does this group have any leaders or anything in that regards, which is why it really isn't a group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Anon's worldwide protests took to the steets today, taking on churches in 100s of cities. Here is the London chapter RickRolling England's Scientology HQ: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 this is all so very American. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanOfCorn Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 10, 2008 -> 03:37 PM) this is all so very American. Are you saying that it isn't Freedom of Religion? Cuz, religion should be free...from MANDATORY donations. Edited February 11, 2008 by CanOfCorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Feb 11, 2008 -> 08:48 PM) Are you saying that it isn't Freedom of Religion? Cuz, religion should be free...from MANDATORY donations. Yup. Even though Anaon probably isn't doing this for the right reasons, it good to see at least someone take on the glorified cult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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