Hackers declare war on Scientologists amid claims of heavy-handed Cruise
control
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| Yet the church has appeared powerless to stop the online sabotage. Guerrilla
| action has so far included the temporary disabling of its international
| website and "Google bombing", a manipulation of the search engine which has
| resulted in the website being the first result returned by Google when users
| type "dangerous cult". Scientology's UK website has been unavailable and in
| the US the FBI were investigating what they said was the hoax dispatch of
| white powder in envelopes to 19 churches in the Los Angeles area.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/04/news
Windows zombies are used against them. They stole Microsoft's #1 position
for "dangerous cult".
Recent:
Scientology website shielded against DDoS attack
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| "The attacks are mostly brute force flooding. Some of the attacks start and
| stop from a bank of machines at exactly the same time so there have
| definitely been bots employed," McPherson told El Reg.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/scientology_ddos_post_mortem/
Related:
U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other
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| If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
| at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
| the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
| the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual
| bombing of an attack source.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
The feds weigh in on Windows security
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| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html
Telegraph floored by DDoS attack
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| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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