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DOJ, FBI, entertainment industry sites attacked after piracy arrests
Elinor Mills
by Elinor Mills January 19, 2012 2:20 PM PST
Online activists angered over antipiracy legislation in Congress as well as today's indictment of operators of popular file-hosting site Megaupload attacked the sites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music, and the Motion Picture Association of America, shutting them down at least temporarily, and were targeting many others.
"The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC Bring Down Sites!" the AnonDaily Twitter account read, referring to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon tool Anonymous supporters use to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on sites.
The attacks were affecting Internet traffic patterns overall, according to a real-time Web monitoring site operated by content delivery company Akamai. The site had registered 218 attacks in the last 24 hours and reported that attack-related traffic was up 24 percent over normal, while general network traffic was up 13 percent.
Elinor Mills
by Elinor Mills January 19, 2012 2:20 PM PST
Online activists angered over antipiracy legislation in Congress as well as today's indictment of operators of popular file-hosting site Megaupload attacked the sites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music, and the Motion Picture Association of America, shutting them down at least temporarily, and were targeting many others.
"The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC Bring Down Sites!" the AnonDaily Twitter account read, referring to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon tool Anonymous supporters use to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on sites.
The attacks were affecting Internet traffic patterns overall, according to a real-time Web monitoring site operated by content delivery company Akamai. The site had registered 218 attacks in the last 24 hours and reported that attack-related traffic was up 24 percent over normal, while general network traffic was up 13 percent.
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