Archive for April, 2008

Radio Free Europe DDoS

April 29, 2008 by Jose Nazario

It seems that the latest target of the “DDoS as a political statement” movement may be Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. News about the attacks has surfaced online, including this source: RFE/RL Websites Hit By Mass Cyberattack, via the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website The attack, which started on April 26, initially targeted the website of [...]

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Blunt Instruments

April 24, 2008 by Kurt Dobbins

In his written statement to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Tuesday of this week, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin referred to a particular method of traffic management as a “blunt means to reduce peer-to-peer traffic by blocking certain traffic completely.” The blunt means was referring to how some Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) [...]

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NetBot Attacker Anti-CNN Tool

April 23, 2008 by Jose Nazario

As I noted last night, another, third tool (that I know of) dedicated for Chinese who are upset and want to attack CNN has been released. The folks at Hackeroo have released a Netbot Attacker Anti-CNN version, free of charge, for folks to use. Normally Netbot Attacker is a commercial tool, but this is a [...]

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