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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.""
The irony of their actions condemns me!
DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service.
Laws of physics. Even if you have hundreds of thousands of of zombie infected machines blowing UPD packets towards your public gateway IPs, nothing you can do to stop it from taking up bandwidth. That's why it's a DDOS. It's a digital siege attack!
Life is not for the lazy.
Because the DDOS isn't coming from those say... 10 computers. It's coming from god knows how many computers in a botnet made up of computers from probably every country that has computers connected to the internet.
Lots of folks have diseases of the mind, but somehow manage to be only a minor annoyance or slight nuisance to others. Like the crazy lady who hurls cats at me.
Others seem Hell-bent on trying to make their sickness impact my personal freedom and values of liberal democracy as greatly as possible on my front lawn.
The Founding Fathers spoke of "Freedom of Religion," but they really meant "Freedom from Religion", of others, as well.
Democracy, not Theocracy.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The Crusades.....you mean a defensive war waged against muslims by christians? Palastine was settled by christians and muslims came and took it over (ie, the muslims invaded).