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Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks
tsamsoniw writes "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""
Religion is a disease of the mind, its victims need treatment, not mocking or pity or hate
Why can't these financial institutions stop a DDOS? I am being serious. Why can't these be mitigated at a data center?
The hacker group name must translate to myg0t...
This strategy should work.
...and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility
Man, they really need a simpler name. A catchy logo would help, too.
No sig for you! Come back one year!
The group ... reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet."
And these idiots think the banks are responsible and/or control the Internet and its content? - sigh
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The irony of their actions condemns me!
This explains why I've been unable to log into my PNC web banking over the past couple of days.
I wish I would have heard this from PNC instead of Slashdot. :-/
This is retarded. Their demands are that a YouTube video mocking Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet". Anyone intelligent enough do do these kinds of attacks would be smart enough to know that the internet is not very "censorable". Their demand is meaningless; they're just gonna keep doing it. Period. Why even bother making a demand in the first place? Somehow these terrorists have convinced themselves that they are superior in intelligence and that the rest of us are gullible. That in and of itself is funny as hell.
'nuff said
But think about it, here we are in the second decade of the 21st century, and we have notorious cyber terrorists hacking banking systems, wrecking havoc! It's like, the future man! Johnny Mnemonic here we come! Hack the planet!
If this hacker group is "sophisticated" enough to DDOS banks... wouldn't they realize that "eliminating" ANYTHING from the Internet is impossible?
These Islamists want to control you and your life. Convert or suffer. Yes, they are weak now, but that may not always be the case. All you pricks that crap on Israel need to know that millions of Muslims, perhaps not a majority, but millions of Muslims hate you.
This story just goes to show, anyone can install and use Low-Orbit Ion Cannon, even if he or she doesn't understand how the Internet works. No matter where you fall on the "hacker" definition debate, it's pretty clear that these people aren't hackers.
If Islam is that threatened by a badly produced video from a religious group, maybe it just needs a bigger push to bring it down.
If all they're doing is DDOS'ing websites they disagree with, they're exactly as extremist as Anonymous.
If he is a prophet or whatever the hell he is supposedly supposed to be, I think he would be (or maybe not) above something so petty. Besides the fact that he is dead anyways if he even existed. Surely he would have something better to do than throw tantrums over cartoons/comics/videos...etc.
Same goes for most other religions too that do things like this. Remember the Jesus thing and things like... don't kill? or turn the other cheek? yeah quite a few don't follow those. Not even going to get started on the marriage bullshit.
Now where did I put my camera? I need to make a movie about Mohammed...
At 8pm EST Dec. 13 let's all DDOS God! Repeat Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah ...
why are we taking this seriously? it's fiction, guys, quit falling victim to the fiction engine... silly women...
The only sensible thing is to give the video more exposure.. Anyone got a link?
....are arseholes.
The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: "be eliminated from the Internet."
Really? That's all? Yeah, good luck with that...
Seriously, you assclowns need to loosen the towels on your heads and stop taking advice from Barbara Streisand. There is no "Delete From Internet" button. Not gonna happen. It's completely, undeniably, 100% impossible no matter how much you want it done. Stop fucking your camels for five seconds and read up on what the Internet actually is. Hint: It's not some giant repository somewhere that holds all these files (and no, Mr. Stevens, it's not a series of tubes, either).
While you're at it, you may as well just own up to the fact that some people disagree with your religion, some people are dickheads, and some people fall into both categories at the same time. Instead of condemning them, why not show them kindness and tolerance so they might come to agree with you? Islam is a religion of peace, is it not?
Nevermind. What was I thinking? This was never about some low-budget backyard video. This was just another excuse for you to cause violence or vandalism in the name of Allah. Actually, it's not even that. It's the whims of some self-aggrandising imam who has the audacity to think he speaks for the creator of the universe (whether your name for this being is God, Allah, FSM, or whatever). Stop being an ignorant puppet to some bearded clown's private dictatorial masturbation fantasies!
...and go kill yourselves. We don't need islamic terrorism offline or online.
If you can't be part of civilized society, kill yourselves. Or we will.
one of these days, somebody is going to say fuck it, and once they find country of origin, are going to organize a targeted DDOS back to them that wipes their TLDs off the web for weeks, months, or years. maybe then we can get some international leadership to put these nitwits in a can with Prince Albert and lock them in the fridge to see how fast it's running.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
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Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes
"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."
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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio
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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director
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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History
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George Carlin:
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehous
I think that if we shut down all the interenets to every snackbar, the attacks would stop.
Coming to this conclusion was very logical as they clearly state that they operate and worship the ground of said snackbars in every video ever posted.
So there you go! Problem solved. No snacks, no problems.
s/Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters/white middle-class Canadian and American kids pretending to be part of the Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam bridges, AKA anonymous/g
of eve online and decided to allahakbahr it up IRL
probably not even classifyable as terrorism
I like their name. They should all wear primary colored outfits and strike cool poses.
Everything is bound to offend *someone* in the world. That doesn't make it controversial. It's only controversial if it offends people who count (and Islamic Extremists don't count). Align our values with their own is nothing but appeasement and will not make them any less extremist.
I do a lot of business with Wells Fargo and Company. I don't see a problem here; yawn.
The only harm you have caused is to make it difficult for the banks' customers to access their websites. You have done nothing to affect normal banking activities. You have simply shit on us little guys who just want to check our account balances and transfer money between our accounts. On behalf of all of us that you screwed, GO FUCK YOURSELVES. To the banks - you should all post the video on your home pages.
Explain to them the Streisand Effect. Then explain Babs is a Jew, and they are using Jewish tactics on the banks. Sit back and watch the circular hate shut them down.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Just my hunch. I suspect Russia and Iran are conducting a Cyberwar operation against US financial targets in an attempt to hurt the US financial economy. It will not be successful.
Why can't these financial institutions stop a DDOS? I am being serious. Why can't these be mitigated at a data center?
DDOS isn't hard to stop. Cloud computing at a datacenter would stop it just fine. When one server goes down if the cloud is based on virtualization such as with VMWare then another instance of the OS would replace it instantly. It would make the DDOS attempts completely ineffective.
Of course there are more details in implementing this but this problem has been solved.
You can (some sites have before), but doing so takes up resources and won't necessarily stop all the different attack vectors. DDoS can use multiple approaches aside from just flooding the server with requests. You can, in theory, protect against all the known attacks, but that requires time and money before the attack starts, which might be wasted if you never get attacked (you don't typically want 10x your expected maximum load worth of bandwidth just sitting around unless you absolutely need it, for example).
What you need is enough redundancy so that DDOS is worthless. You also need near instantaneous recovery time. A cloud network could provide redundancy and virtualization could decrease recovery time. The attack vectors also aren't unlimited so unless it's some sort of zero-day it's going to be known.
Oh wait, some of them DDoS banks too.
The thing is, some of here in the west aren't exactly fond of various companies or financial institutions either. (Their policies suck, management lacks ethics, etc. In other words, we pretty much see them as corrupt and greedy heartless bastards.) So the fact that this group is claming that certain content is what inspires attacks on these banks will insure that much more of that content will be intentionally uploaded to the internet.
It's pretty simple logic too. Here in the west, if I try to DDOS a company I'll get in trouble. However if I mock some fuckwit religion most people here don't give two shits about, it's well within my right to do so. If mocking a religion leads to some group attacking a company I hate, it doesn't take a genius to figure out how easy it will be to make fundamentalists do all the dirty work while I take a fairly safe path involving the least effort.
...and not know how impossible it is to remove that video from the internet?
Because Islam extremists represent all religious minded folks.
What's that nerds are usually so adamant about? Something about not painting everyone with one brush?
Religion is a disease of the mind,
Diseases came in many forms and severity
Similar to diseases, religions came in many forms and have different levels of severity
That hacker group happened to be from one with the terminal effects - suicide bomber is but one of the many examples
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Mod this up! This is insightful, whereas "Religion is a disease of the mind, its victims need treatment, not mocking or pity or hate" is just Trolling
As soon as governments, or those with their own means, start to kill a few of these attackers they will quickly lose much of their support. As it is now it's seen as a fairly safe way to cause some harm and feel like you are doing something on a boring Saturday night. Let a few of them be found in dumpsters and the majority of them will waste their time else where. Sure you'll always have the government sponsored professional programs going on, but say good byte to the majority of Anonymous, etc.
i tried to log into my online banking account, but I couldn't. Guess I'll have to wait until the attack ends. I went to a bank branch to order checks and to wire some money to another account.
They do represent all fundamentalist religious minded folks.
"The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that YouTube *comments* "be eliminated from the Internet."
There, fixed it
Do they run Sabily?
Trolling, but arguably with some truth. The only difference between religion and delusion is in the number of followers.
If only they had filed a DMCA take-down notice :)
There are about a million good reasons why the banks should be attacked if not completely destroyed. That blasted movie is NOT one of them.
I wonder if the attackers are aware that their actions in this case work exactly against their interests.
US seeks to embrace ALL cultures? So... that includes fundamentalist Muslims right? And Nazi's? And child love advocates?
Oh all cultures you approve off by recognizing them as a culture, not cultures you don't recognize. Gotcha.
Western culture, the enlightened society, only happened because we both forced religion to take a backseat while not allowing science into the frontseat. So, NORAD tracks Santa Claus and all is well. AND that is a MONO-culture. Only SUB-cultures can exist within it peacefully, not full-fledged cultures of their own because they would naturally be in conflict. If you put fresh water in a container and then add salt, you would like a bloody fool trying to claim the container contained fresh water and salt. It contains SALT WATER. A new thing. You can have Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindoes and even Catholics exist happily in the "western" culture BUT ONLY if they are part of the culture and are not their own independent culture.
To get this, take a look at soccer. People often talk of a soccer culture but no such thing exists. How soccer fits into each country, into each culture defines that local soccer culture. It is experienced very differently from say Holland, Brazil and the USA. It is the countries culture that defines the soccer culture. Jews in the west are FIRST their own country, then westerners and THEN Jews. Same for other integrated believe systems. Just look at the difference between Dutch Catholics and Italian Catholics. I chose the Dutch specifically since when the Pope visited Holland several decades ago, he was basically told by the majority of Catholics to piss of and keep his fundamentalist message to himself. In the US, nuns are in open rebellion and that is not a state one normally associates with nuns. The US nuns are more part of the US culture then the catholic culture and have come to interpret their belief in a radically different way then the way Rome sees it (US nuns see their role as doing good, Rome sees their role as in keeping the faith).
The conflict with Islam is not about individual faith but in portions of that culture going against the flow of the countries culture they are in. This is not just in the west, most of the now replaced or under attack leaders (Arab "Spring") were SECULAR in nature, the rebels, Islamist. Yes boys and girls, Syria is SECULAR. So was Libya. Saudi Arabia is under SHARIA law. And in Egypt Sharia law is forming the basis of the new constitution. The real issue here is of course is that Sharia law is NOT desired by all in said countries, not even all Muslims. The desire for sharia law belongs to a sub-culture of a sub-culture in Islam that however seeks to impose its will on everyone else. See Sudan, see the various Sharia4[European country] movements.
The core of the issue lies with how modern, western democracies work. It requires EVERYONE to abide by the compromise made of the wishes of the majority. If you put 100 people in a room and tell them to come up with their wish on the subject of abortion, each will write something different. A government then has to reach a compromise, something like "only until X weeks and after a cooldown period and consultation of a doctor". Practically nobody will find THEIR wish to match that compromise completely, yet if the system is to work, ALL must accept it as being the way things are. Both those who wish for stricter and looser terms MUST tolerate the compromise and life with it.
It comes as no surprise that people don't. People have illegal abortions AND people bomb abortion clinics. And BOTH are dangerous attacks on the principle of democracy. Same with people who refuse to pay taxes because they don't agree with how they are spent. Sorry. NOT YOUR CALL. The majority rules. Anyone who disagrees through anything else then the normal political process, is an enemy of democracy. Yes, it SUCKS that Christmas is a day off and not say Life Day but that is the way it is. You can run a political campaign to eliminate Christmass but in the likely case you lo
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
My thoughts exactly, the attackers can't realistically expect to achieve their goals. I can only assume this is primarily for publicity, possibly recruiting purposes?
You're right, some diseases are worse than others. Some are terminal. Some are not. They're still diseases and all of them, without exception, eat away at rational thought.
...these tards are as stupid as their jihadist friends...
"The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""
LOL - guess they don't understand.
Guess lots more people will download the video from Youtube and start sharing it via torrents and stuff, just to thumb their noses at these tards
Being upset about the video is just a smoke screen. What they are really doing is stealing money via ACH or wire fraud and the DDOS is used to tie up bank resources while the fraud occurs.
The video was a false flag attack designed to make them angry. The real goals were to spread the violence across the middle east and spread war. See the following video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc655hvscwE
I know how to get the so-called "cyber jihadists" to halt their DoS attacks on U.S. banks - hold all their Interner pr0n hostage! Block all Muslim countries' access to Internet smutt and pornography until those behind the DoS campaign cease their script kiddie attacks. I bet the outcry from followers of al Qaida would be so ferocious that the attacks would halt almost immediately!
It is a disease that is spread by the virus philosophy.
I went to a conference once, and learned that cloud computing, with mobile devices and gesture interfaces solves everything, if it is wireless. Why anyone would have "servers" or "bandwidth" and stuff that isn't mobile cloud wireless and has 4Gs, or 5Gs by now, probably is baffling. Their not continously improving on their baseline entitlement. Every manager knows this stuff.
Everybody was Izz Din Fighting! they were fast as lightning!
Is it possible that the group could be hurting their own financial asylum? I am assume somewhere down the line funding for such attacks or attacks alike can be traced back to one of these mentioned banks. Just speculating and spreading humors during my lunch hour.
Or maybe they recognise that money has influence, and banks have lots of money, and possibly they're an easier target than some others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
Casteism
I propose every religion should have an expiry date.
Casteism