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LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard

Posted by samzenpus on from the poking-the-bear dept.

Revotron writes "Anonymous hacker group LulzSec has begun to harness the power of the crowd in their latest griefing attempts. After a day of numerous DDoS attacks on a handful of famous MMOs, LulzSec's phone lines lit up with an estimated 20 calls per second. Using a fairly simple phone redirect, they sent all of their incoming calls to various offices, among them the FBI office in Detroit, Blizzard Customer Support, online retailer Magnets.com, and most recently, the corporate offices of HBGary." Update: It looks like they also brought down the CIA website tonight, but it is up now.

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  1. Wait a minute... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Anonymous hacker group"...with phone lines? Does not compute.

  2. Re:first post by cavreader · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And exactly what purpose is that? Launching indiscriminate DDOS attacks are child's play since almost everyone is vulnerable to this type of attack. The only purpose they are serving is to give the government more reasons to start trying to take control of content and access. These guys are nothing when compared against those responsible for Stuxnet. Now that required some intelligence and also served a good purpose.

  3. Re:first post by MikeBabcock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Children in school yards are easy targets for rifles. That doesn't in any way imply we should shoot them for lulz.

    Neither is anything lulzsec does justified except by people with absolutely no sense of justice.

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    - Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)