Mastercard website is down, supposedly as revenge for Wikileaks incident
- Thread starter poopgiggle
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wow....sites going down to DDoS...especially mastercard....
but congratulations they overloaded a virtual server that hosts the front end of the site...
but congratulations they overloaded a virtual server that hosts the front end of the site...
The thing that lets this happen is the low barrier to entry in terms of commitment and skill for this kind of stuff.
You barely even need to know how to use a computer. There are Firefox extensions that will repeatedly refresh a page that can be set to do it really fast. For the Scientology job, they just posted a link to a web server performance auditing suite with instructions on how to generate a lot of traffic. All you need is one sort-of tech savvy guy to write the instructions, and anyone can follow them in 5 minutes to set their box up as another node in the DDoS.
Meanwhile, organizing massive numbers of people is trivial thanks to Internet message boards, Twitter, etc. Until those, the only organizations with the kind of infrastructure to reach millions of people this quickly were governments and news networks.
Not to mention that you don't even need to get most of these people to care about whatever hacktivist cause you're pushing. They just need to believe that there will be lulz.
ooo look at me I'm a fancy pants IT guy...I see SO MANY incidents in my glamorous career managing ENTERPRISE HIGH LEVEL NETWORKS that a bunch of teenagers creating a PR incident for a gigantic financial company is old news to me...
why yes you are....based on your sig...just sayin' woo hoo front end of site really hitting them where it counts and costing them money and effort.
Or in my case+R
Dude, you already admitted that you do your own laundry, despite having a wife... and now this? You trying to get your ass kicked?
(Just playing, Macs aren't for me, but had to razz ya (I know, razzing a Mac user, how cool of me))
(PS. I'm hitched, do SOME laundry, SOME dishes, but 99% of the cooking)
I like not having to reinstall windows every 2 months and not worrying about viruses and never having programs randomly crash on me 
I hardly do laundry lol, just didn't feel like making my wife iron my stuff because she was already sewing them up for me. Usually I'll switch the laundry from the washer to dryer but she always folds it. I hate folding clothes with a passion.
Just watch, this will get a lot bigger... It will set a precedent and the government will move in for the kill... "Restricting the internet for our protection."
Beleee dat!
Beleee dat!
Obama just has to press his "Ïnternet Off" button remember?
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