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19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks
An anonymous reader writes Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19,000 websites of French-based companies have been targeted by cyber attackers. This unprecedented avalanche of cyber attacks targeted both government sites and that of big and small businesses. Most were low-level DDoS attacks, and some were web defacements. Several websites in a number of towns in the outskirts of Paris have been hacked and covered with an image of an ISIS flag. The front pages of the official municipality websites have been covered with the Jihadist militant group's black flag. In a report, Radware researchers noted that Islamic hacker group AnonGhost has also launched a "digital jihad" against France.
Better a DDOS than murder.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Organisation should never overplay their hand, otherwise people know who is really holding the cards an what is actually in their hands. There is real value in the idea that the truth will set you free. Free from the fears of those who wish to drive your choices via the fear the attempt to create and free from the lies that others would seek to trap you in. Oh look who is having a security conference, uh huh.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
It's a step in the right direction.
Now, instead of just posting a graphic of a flag, how about posting some justification? Explain what you are objecting to and why you find it objectionable.
You have the attention of the media.
Unless you're a bunch of teenage script kiddies doing this for the lulz.
Lots of good targets if anonymous or whoever wants to help actually have the skills to do more than script and ddos attacks. Its not like these guys have no family connected to the real world, or have been sending tweets through smoke signals.
They have technical infrastructure, and probably ties to several governments, which means there's tons of opportunity for anything from doxxing associates and officials to following and disrupting the various money trains involved.
So basically less annoying than spam.
Pretty sure the correct solution is ban any method of communication which the government can't listen in on. That'll mean a camera with microphone in every bedroom, of course.
Those guys in Paris are failed terrorists unless they succeed in inciting acts of terror by European government against their citizens - and there is nothing more terrorising than the thought you're always being listened to by men with guns with the power to lock you up, no matter who you intend to communicate with - in which case they will have been successful terrorists.
Just as, after the first few months of 9/11, there was clearly nothing to fear except from US government finding an excuse to destroy freedom. Again, the book on those terrorists could have been closed as "killed a lot of people, but did not change the American way of life", but instead we find they were successful too, because they incited the US government to destroy freedom.
On the other hand, french journalists are afraid because they feel they could ne the next attacked, and their reports suggest terror is widespread, but it is a fake perception for the whole french society.
ISIS supporters are mostly westerners, people who grew up with technology, and a firm grasp of western culture. They seem to be able to use computers just fine.