Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks

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Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:54AM from the washing-your-mouth-out-with-soap dept.

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.""

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Its becoming clear by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 09:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

Religion is a disease of the mind, its victims need treatment, not mocking or pity or hate
1. Re:Its becoming clear by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 10:14 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Religion is a disease of the mind, its victims need treatment, not mocking or pity or hate
  But the mocking is so much fun!
2. Re:Its becoming clear by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 10:27 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  > Religion is a disease of the mind, its victims need treatment
  It is not just religion, it is any kind of "us vs them" tribalism.
3. Re:Its becoming clear by SplashMyBandit · 2012-12-13 12:28 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It is not just religion, it is any kind of "us vs them" tribalism.
  Just remember the "us vs them" is not always the result of tribalism. In this case the "them" are muslim political fundamentalists that will accept no other system in the globe except the Caliphate and Sharia. If you would rather keep your freedoms and the principles of the Englightenment then you fall into the "us" group. These are not "tribes" in the nationalistic sense (which perhaps was what you meant) - it is a fundamental battle of civilizations between those that seek to embrace all cultures, or those that believe that God commands that impose a particular political system be imposed around the globe (and which cannot be questioned). Islam is not alone in this singular view, it just happens to be the most active in it at the moment and is growing more and more active.
Someone tell me by kc67 · 2012-12-13 09:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

Why can't these financial institutions stop a DDOS? I am being serious. Why can't these be mitigated at a data center?
1. Re:Someone tell me by operagost · 2012-12-13 10:22 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Because these terrorists are ignoramuses from countries where control of everything is centralized in a dictator or a theocracy, so naturally they can't comprehend of a liberal democracy where this might not be the case.
  
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2. Re:Someone tell me by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 11:05 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  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.
Re:How stupid do they think we really are? by Merk42 · 2012-12-13 10:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

So... making ignorant threats against an entire culture is okay when you do it?
Re:Its becoming clear, insightful my ass by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 13:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

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?