[LINK] First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Fri Dec 10 11:46:04 AEDT 2010
At 11:18 +1100 10/12/10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>I heard an interview with an Anon member this morning who said their
>are something like 11million members. good luck with that!
It looks like the software may be DOS rather than DDOS, i.e. each
participant bombards the target with packets that contain their own,
easily-traceable IP-address.
If so, then the arms race will proceed quickly, with the couple of
hundred stayers among the (million?!) members arming themselves with
cyberwarfare-grade software that at least spoofs the IP-address but
more likely harnesses existing botnets or establishes new ones in
order to mount the attacks.
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