So, this is thinly veiled hacking, in the name of protest. Very nice. I hope the folks doing this realize that this is no different than throwing a brick through a window, or otherwise damaging people's property, and that they are essentially vandals. - Dan
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:46 AM To: Steven M. Bellovin Cc: Joseph T. Klein; nanog@merit.edu Subject: WEF cyber-protest (was Re: distributed attack, high or not)
We're entering protest season. The World Economic Forum opens today in New York City. Some protesters have launched what they call a cyber-protest using several different tools. So far it appears directed at a few selected, although well-known, corporations.
http://www.geocities.com/net_strike_net/english_active.html
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
It's a classic DDoS attack, aimed at you. Someone has lots of zombie machines out there; at some point, they sent a command packet to all of them, saying "bombard such-and-such an IP address for 3600 seconds".
Common? It happens frequently to someone. Precursor? Entirely possible, though there's no way to know for sure. But it can be very bad -- see http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2103098,00.html for what happened to a British ISP.