Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike

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Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike

Posted by timothy on Friday January 20, 2012 @02:41PM from the should-come-on-by-default dept.

wiredmikey writes "As Anonymous initiated what it said will be the 'largest attack ever on government and music industry sites' in response to actions taken by the Justice Department against operators of file sharing site Megaupload.com, downloads of a popular DoS attack tool have spiked. While the Denial of Service tool known as the 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' (LOIC) was developed by the 'good guys' to stress test websites, it has been a favorite tool of Anonymous to take its targets offline via denial of service attacks. Interactions seen on Twitter and IRC, made it clear that the action against MegaUpload has sparked many more individuals to get involved in the online protests and download the LOIC to take part in the attacks and has resulted in a massive spike in downloads according Slashdot sister site Sourceforge."

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And now script kiddies everywhere by Osgeld · 2012-01-20 14:44 · Score: 5, Funny

have 2 new search terms to punch into google after the word download!
1. Re:And now script kiddies everywhere by Osgeld · 2012-01-20 14:56 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  your pretty bad ass using a program that even wikipedia notes:
  See also
  Script kiddie
  but hey dont come crying to me when you use this years "aoHELL" to commit "terrorist acts" against "government facilities" and end up in a federal prison getting ass hammered by a guerrilla named Sydir.
2. Re:And now script kiddies everywhere by Jane+Q.+Public · 2012-01-20 21:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You leave my sysdir out of this. She's due to get out in another year; she doesn't need any more trouble.
knee by phrostie · 2012-01-20 15:12 · Score: 1, Funny

I used to be an adventurer like you, then i took an LOIC in the knee.
Re:I took a LOIC in the ass by Nerdfest · 2012-01-20 15:25 · Score: 3, Funny

... and the Linux version is called LOIQ (Low Orbit Ion Cannon in in Qt) ... you know, should any of us 'linuxfags' want to participate.
Re:I took a LOIC in the ass by finkployd · 2012-01-20 16:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Am not!
Re:Those downloading LOIC... by EdIII · 2012-01-20 18:18 · Score: 5, Funny

That's absolutely hilarious.
The whole idea of DoS is to flood the server with so many packets it cannot handle them all. TOR is so fucking slow you might as well be shunting the output of Hoover Damn through a silly straw.
Not to mention the exit node for the connection is what is going to get picked up, and that is unlikely since TOR won't use 100% of the upstream.
You just turned the beam from the Death Star down from "destroy" to "light tan".
Re:initiating first post blast by skoaldipper · 2012-01-21 01:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Why, in my day we DoS'd by clicking on slashdot links, and by golly, we liked it!

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