"Anonymous," the outlaw team powering Operation Payback, identifies itself with the principles espoused by WikiLeaks. Wed Anonymous released an Operation Payback assault on MasterCard and Visa for the sin of halting online processing of WikiLeaks donations. Operation Payback works via a relatively small number of individuals recruited by Anonymous that sign up for a voluntary botnet by downloading software intended to choke offending servers with an overload of traffic.
Distributed denial of service hacktivism happening with Operation Payback
Hacktivism is what is happening with Operation Payback. There are a ton of attacks with distributed denial of service, or DDoS. The hacker group Anonymous is inviting anybody with a computer and a Web connection to become “hacktivists” by offering a free download of an assault tool called LOIC. Installing the LOIC attack tool links a computer to a voluntary botnet that saturates targeted sites with a flood of data. LOIC was downloaded 31,000 times already as of Thurs morning. Distributed denial of service attacks with the LOIC botnet brought on websites like MasterCard and Visa to shut down Wed. Anonymous hacktivists also altered MasterCard’s Wikipedia entry to read “MasterCard is an evil puppet of the United States government.”
Anonymous keeping WikiLeaks in the game
Other Distributed denial of service attacks were put on the Church of Scientology, Gene Simmons of KISS and any law firms suing pirates of music and video from Anonymous. In addition to releasing the LOIC assault tool, Anonymous has helped create more than 1,000 mirror online websites where exact copies of WikiLeaks content could be found. The hacktivist group is also distributing WikiLeaks content on “dark nets,” heavily encrypted layers of the web where information can be accessed without being traced. Amazon.com is expected to be the next company Anonymous plans on attacking. This is because, after a federal government request, Amazon pulled WikiLeaks off its United States servers.
The totally anonymous enemy
It does not cost anything and is easy to launch attacks like Operation Payback. Defending in opposition to Distributed denial of service attacks is difficult and costly. A business that is big can pay $10,000 a month for a great cyber security system. This is intended to stop them from happening. Cyber security states the attacks from Operation payback are actually fairly small. Less than 10 gigabits per second of information is being transferred. To make the attacks difficult to defend against, Anonymous constantly rotates the computers from which the attack is coming. A counterattack occurred Wednesday to Operation Payback. It actually had sites shut down from this.
Information from
NPR
marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/12/08/pm-hacktivism-can-be-pricey-for-businesses/
ABC News
abcnews.go.com/US/operation-payback-anonymous-cyber-battle-erupts-wikileaks/story?id=12351428
BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11957367
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