19 August 2011

How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous | #hackers #AntiSec

On September 19, 2008, hackers from the Anonymous collective attacked the website of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. The hackers found and immediately posted e-mail addresses, passwords, and physical addresses of 205 O'Reilly site members paying $5 a month to hear Bill's wisdom. The next day, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit the site with 5,000 packets per second. That night, another attack flooded two O'Reilly servers with 1.5GB/s of data.

The site member data was put to use by hackers immediately. One woman suffered $400 in fraudulent charges; as an interview with the FBI would later make clear, these were purchases for things like "penile enlargement." Like many Internet users, the woman had used the same e-mail address and password for many online accounts, including PayPal, AOL, and Facebook, which gave the attackers access to many aspects of her online life. 

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Posted by Damon Baldini at 19:19

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think Anonymous is great. They know how to do things most people say are impossible. They aren't terrorists, they're computer wizards. They should be commended. If I knew one I'd wanna learn all I can.

28 August, 2011 11:02

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