WikiLeaks supporters download ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon’ software en masse

[babsbunny]

WikiLeaks supporters download ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon’ software en masse

By The Associated Press
Friday, December 10th, 2010 -- 12:59 pm

Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/spam-downloads-surge-wikileaks-supporters/

WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.

U.S. data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported overnight.

"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.

[madmax]

1. :-) nt

[EFerrari]

2. Yet Wikileaks still not trending at twitter.

Go figure. :)

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. These people are insane

There are DDoS packages out there that can be manually coded to the address targeted. They were all the rage in 2009 after the Iranians cut off access to their people post election.

Downloading a preprogrammed, non-open package is a recipe for disaster. You might as well post all of your personal information + login information to your router and all websites to the 4chan site for their next little adventure.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Is the Revolution to be ...

internetized? How will television react?
Stay tuned.