Law enforcement officials are probing a "significant" series of computer attacks launched in the last week, including one that took down some of the most popular web logs, or "blogs," on the Internet, an AT&T spokesman said yesterday.
But the best-known of the affected sites, including Glenn Reynolds' "Instapundit" and the Long Island-based "Command Post," apparently weren't the intended victims of the so-called denial of service" attacks.
But those sites were taken out when unknown hackers went after an obscure Web site belonging to a group called Internet Haganah, which tries to get service providers to boot terror-connected Web sites off the Internet, according to Annette Howard, co-owner of Haganah's ISP, Hosting Matters.
They've probably beefed up their security after they were taken down the first time.
I emailed them to ask them about it because I am considering switching to hosting matters. They said the attack affected all customers.
I'm going to begin by stating that what I am about to say is NOT to be in ANY way construed as an endorsement. I do not suggest that anyone break the law. Seriously. Now, that said -- what you've said is not exactly how it works in practice. Do a Google "groups" search for recent events concerning "monkeys", "spews", "ddos", and "fbi", and you'll discover that sites
are knocked off the air for
very prolonged periods of time (weeks, in the cases you'll read if you search for those four terms), and the FBI will
not involve themselves unless you can demonstrate that you've suffered damages in excess of a fairly large sum of money, I
think it's $75,000.
Threee prominent blocklist services were forced off the air -- permanently -- due to a protracted DDOS attack by a spammer or spammers of unknown origin. And, the FBI flat out refused to take action -- any action -- even though the activity was clearly illegal, and harmful.
The amazing thing is that they refused to enforce the law even though this may very well have been a "practice run" by terrorists -- or, a "for-hire" run that terrorists could observe, and "learn from". They could then either hire the vermin who engaged in the crime, or, simply emulate them -- to attack critical infrastructure elements.
This IMO is like watching bin laden knock over liquor stores to get money to buy weapons, and refuse to arrest him because no single store's loss exceeded an arbitrary trigger amount.
re Haganah going down...Let's get a small glimpse as to what these guys are talking about. Here's a partial cut and paste of this "jihaad" board:
AS-SAHWAH.com: "IslamicAwakening.Com Discussion Board: JIHAAD"
http://www.as-sahwah.com/discus/messages/6/6.html Jihaad
IslamicAwakening.Com Discussion Board: Jihaad
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