Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack

Posted by Unknown on Thursday September 1, 2011 @01:32AM from the bored-teenagers-being-idiots dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Anonymous members have taken responsibility for launching a denial of service attack against WikiLeaks this week using a custom-built tool that exploits an SQL server flaw. Field tests of the tool dubbed RefRef were launched against several websites including WikiLeaks, Pastebin and 4Chan. In a Twitter account linked to the Anonymous blog, the users were described as hacktivists with 'a personal vendetta against WikiLeaks,' adding that 'we are sorry we took you down. We are even.'"

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War baby war. Yah! by DigiShaman · 2011-09-01 01:39 · Score: 3, Funny

"I cast... magic cyber missile! Fear my incantations for your servers are feeble to stop them."
Anyone else just find this nerd fight entertaining? Pass the popcorn :)

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No, we did it by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-01 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

We, the hacker group known as Anonymous Coward, are responsible for the attack. Anonymous is simply trying to take credit for our actions.