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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. . . .
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!
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.
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 ...
The only sensible thing is to give the video more exposure.. Anyone got a link?
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!
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?
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.
When the Christians come up with government support to kill you for being an atheist I'll start to consider them a bigger threat. Until then you're neglecting the bigger picture. Most likely because you have a chip on your shoulder and haven't seriously considered how much your life would be totally fucked in a Muslim nation. And so it goes.
Why is it that every article about Islam brings out the Christian bashers in droves? I guess these kinds of people have no perspective. In some countries your post would get you jailed (and worse) for admitting to be an atheist. Tell me how the Christians are doing this to you again? Show me the great Christian theocracy is that you guys claim is just as bad as nations that openly support Sharia law.
I like their name. They should all wear primary colored outfits and strike cool poses.
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.
Well, this is a good example of why religions are stupid and harmful. Hate? Is that what religions teach? Hate me because I'm different? Because I'm a white American? Or is it because I don't believe in religions? I don't hate you, I don't hate anyone. If being religious means I need to hate, I DO NOT WANT!
I don't care what you believe, but if you hate me because of your beliefs, then you have some serious problems.
Be seeing you...
I do a lot of business with Wells Fargo and Company. I don't see a problem here; yawn.
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.
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.
Well, yes. The Islamists are actively trying to kill the Israelis, and more specifically the Jews. That justifies self-defense, does it not? Truth be told, the Palestinians in Israel get better treatment than most Arabs in other countries. They only complain because of the Jews.
Hackers sell services like this...it could be just one guy with enough cash to pay for a DDOS attack.
...and not know how impossible it is to remove that video from the internet?
Someone should tell them the "whole internet" has a secret broadcast IP address and if you want to DDOS the whole fucking internet, you just enter "127.0.0.1" into "IP to DDOS" field and click "start attack".
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
Last I checked, Israelis weren't trying to kill all the Palestinians. Last I checked, most Palestinians were pretty keen on killing all the Jews. No matter what Israel does, from leaving Gaza to providing free hospital care, the Palestinians insist on trying to kidnap and kill Jews. Fuck them.
You're probably one of the idiots with his own personal definition of antisemitism.
Currently, there is an insignificant number of Christians who will try to kill you for your beliefs. There is, in contrast, a rather significant number of Muslims who would love to string our atheist asses up. Well, they'd probably stone us to death.
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.
They do represent all fundamentalist religious minded folks.
do they have any right to self-defense and regain their human rights
If they were willing to regain human rights, then yes. Right now, though, being openly gay would get you lynched in Gaza - likely stoned to death - and converting from Islam to another religion would result in your head being cut off. For as long as this kind of thing persists, I would very much rather have Israeli in control. At least they don't kill people for following the wrong religion.
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.
Who flies airliners into buildings?
And before you start, anyone who mentions the crusades or the Spanish inquisition is a moron.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
They probably paid some Russians to do it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Not saying you should write more sentences, but shorter ones would definitely be an improvement.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The prophet David Byrne once said " In the future it will be a relief to find a place with no culture".
This was corroborated by the prophet Jagger who said " You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you'll find, you get what you need."
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
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.
If this hacker group is "sophisticated" enough to DDOS banks... wouldn't they realize that "eliminating" ANYTHING from the Internet is impossible?
The stated goal is for shit. This has nothing to do with some video insulting the prophet Mohamed. That was simply the next excuse that came up when the Mohammedans shook the Magic 8-Ball of Islamic Gripes. The next will be Israel's existence, infidels in Afghanistan, pornographic magazines like "Time" and "National Geographic" with immodest women, or some other perceived insult that demands some kind of retribution.
Get off my lawn.
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!
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.
You must have missed the memo. It's perfectly OK to be anti-Semitic nowadays as long as you replace the word "Jew" with "Zionist". As long as you dress your prejudice up in some thin socio-political bullshit veneer, it's all good.
It's called code words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
Casteism
I propose every religion should have an expiry date.
Casteism