DoS Attack Planned for Australian Gov. Tonight

[exfileme]

Anonymous apparently tired of attacking the Church of Scientology and has set its sights on the Australian government.

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[Ciuy]

haha lol gj

 

[Guest]

well the Austrailian goverment may be under estimating this group...

 

[jellico]

I assume they mean DDoS attack. A simple DoS attack is of such a low threat level that any firewall on the market can automatically block it. Regardless, a DDoS attack against government offices in Australia isn't likely to be terribly menancing. Being an island continent means that their data trunks are grouped and it is easy enough to filter out all non-local traffic. Therefore, only local zombies would be an issue and much easier to deal with.

As for the script kiddies in Anonymous... survey says: FREE TIME.

 

[Guest]

They're not randomly targeting Australia. Australia has denied their country service to Anonymous' gathering site. It's simply a retaliation.

 

[viometrix]

down with the australian government, they are becoming like the chines government, or one closer to home for me, cuba....

 

[seboj]

A group of online pranksters

LOL

and

"The whole Anonymous thing is fanciful garbage," the source said. "As a group, it's not to be taken seriously."

LOL.

 

[Master Exon]

apparently

There is that word again.

 

[Hanin33]

master exon: it's kevin...

 

[Hanin33]

[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]I assume they mean DDoS attack. A simple DoS attack is of such a low threat level that any firewall on the market can automatically block it. Regardless, a DDoS attack against government offices in Australia isn't likely to be terribly menancing. Being an island continent means that their data trunks are grouped and it is easy enough to filter out all non-local traffic. Therefore, only local zombies would be an issue and much easier to deal with.As for the script kiddies in Anonymous... survey says: FREE TIME.[/citation]


including traffic from hosts they can not block? any decent swarm has hosts in as many networks as possible and commercial and 'secure' networks aren't excluded from this... sure they could fend off the attack but they'll also isolate themselves from all inbound traffic if these guys are half as able as they seem to be. the filtering will make the attack smaller but it will still do wot the attackers want and that is to cause chaos for australian internet users...

 

[dextermat]

we all know that all government are becoming "dictators"

"Getting rid of freedom little by little"
getting more and more enslave by work and make less money

Just a question of time before they form a world government and then say good buy to freedom, hello to enslavement

 

[jellico]

[citation][nom]Hanin33[/nom]including traffic from hosts they can not block? any decent swarm has hosts in as many networks as possible and commercial and 'secure' networks aren't excluded from this... sure they could fend off the attack but they'll also isolate themselves from all inbound traffic if these guys are half as able as they seem to be. the filtering will make the attack smaller but it will still do wot the attackers want and that is to cause chaos for australian internet users...[/citation]

Why would they not be able to block traffic from any particular host?

iptables -I INPUT -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP

We will assume that the vast majority of Australian government web servers are there to serve Australians, so you could safely block all non-local IPs causing only a minor inconvenience. You then just need to stay on top of the local zombies and block them as they are identified. It's far easier for them (the Aussies) to defend against, than the US government or Facebook, where your sphere of traffic is expected to be global thus making it impossible to block traffic preemptively.

 

[Guest]

You don't need a fucking internet! So stop acting like a cyber attack equals murder!
Don't get an IP, and don't go online,and all the cyberfuk can be done around you, will not affect you!

Unless you're stupid enough to connect your nuke silo's to the internet too!

 

[Hanin33]

jellico: Australians exist outside of the physical continent of Australia... their websites need to be accessible to more than just Australians either way... and what about the Australians that wish to access sites on net ranges that are filtered because zombies reside on them?

 

[joebob2000]

6PM EST / 3PM PST

That's 7PM EDT / 4PM PDT for those of you who are still in the month of September where we are still on Daylight Saving Time.

 

[jellico]

[citation][nom]Hanin33[/nom]jellico: Australians exist outside of the physical continent of Australia... their websites need to be accessible to more than just Australians either way... and what about the Australians that wish to access sites on net ranges that are filtered because zombies reside on them?[/citation]
This is simple pragmatism: you take defensive measures which will inconvenience a small number of people, but preserve services for the majority. Or you do nothing, because the servers need to be there for the people outside of Australia... then the DDoS hits. It overwhelms the servers, and now nobody has access.

A DDoS is a primitive, yet insidious attack. It is precisely because people unwittingly participate, via their zombie computers, that it is effective. Consider this: if you have a terrorist who is threatening to blow up something because he is a true believe, or one who is threatening to blow something up because his family is being held hostage and he has no choice, it makes no difference to the defenders. You shoot the guy in the head because it is what you have to do. It's as simple as that.

 

[phantomtrooper]

"Anonymous apparently tired of attacking the Church of Scientology and has set its sights on the Australian government."

Wow! This writing is just horrible. Try: "Anonymous, apparently tired of attacking the Church of Scientology, has set its sights on the Australian government."

Even I have better proofreading skills than the people who work here and that is really sad considering I have no interest in writing anything (yeah that's right, I've lost interest in this comment already).

 

[matt87_50]

good on em! I'm from Australia, and we all hate the idea of a filter, from users, to isps, to every other person with a bit of sense, we all hate it!

 

[IronRyan21]

[citation][nom]Matt87_50[/nom]good on em! I'm from Australia, and we all hate the idea of a filter, from users, to isps, to every other person with a bit of sense, we all hate it![/citation]

Oh no the Aussies are gonna get you for sayin that, lol. There goes his Internet connection.

 

[opmopadop]

So they are attempting to take down government web sites that are mostly useless... And during offpeak... Good luck making a point with that one. You would gain more attention hitting porn sites.