Anonymous said to be planning cyberattack on ITU site2012-12-07 10:13 by DanielaTags: Anonymous, DoS
Hacker group Anonymous may launch a cyberattack this weekend against the website of the International Telecommunications Union, a security firm warns. The ITU-organized World Conference on International Telecommunications runs Dec. 3-14 in Dubai. The secretive meet has sparked rage within Anonymous and the blogosphere over a Russian proposal to hand control over the Internet to the ITU. The hacktivist collective Anonymous posted a YouTube video last week denouncing the ITU meeting and warning of "grave consequences" to human rights. On Wednesday, a small Anonymous group launched a denial of service (DoS) attack that took the ITU site offline temporarily, said Carl Herberger, vice president of Radware security solutions, which specializes in securing applications against cyberattacks. It's possible the attack failed due to ITU defenses, but it could just have been a test, as Anonymous often tests the tools it will use before launching a full-blown distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Read more -here-
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