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Οι Anonymous θα σβήσουν το Ίντερνετ στις 31 Μαρτίου

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Oι χάκερ της γνωστής ομάδας Anonymous...
δήλωσαν ότι ετοιμάζονται να αφήσουν χωρίς Διαδίκτυο ολόκληρο τον κόσμο.

Η διακοπή έχει προγραμματιστεί για τις 31 Μαρτίου. «Σε ένδειξη διαμαρτυρίας εναντίον του SOPA (σ.τ.μ. του αμερικανικού νόμου κατά της πειρατείας στο Διαδίκτυο), της Wall Street, των ανεύθυνων ηγετών μας και των αγαπημένων τους τραπεζιτών, οι οποίοι εξαναγκάζουν τον κόσμο σε πείνα για τις δικές τους εγωιστικές ανάγκες και την απλή σαδιστική τους διασκέδαση, οι Anonymous θα διακόψουμε το Ίντερνετ», αναφέρεται σε ανακοίνωση της ομάδας των χάκερ.


Οι χάκερ ονόμασαν την επίθεση Global Blackout και σκοπός της ουσιαστικά θα είναι να διακοπεί η λειτουργία των 13 θεμελιωδών DNS-παρόχων. Κατά τη γνώμη των εκπροσώπων της οργάνωσης των χάκερ, μετά την επίθεση ούτε ένας χρήστης δεν θα μπορεί να αναζητήσει καμία διαδικτυακή διεύθυνση.

«Κάθε φορά, που κάποιος θα εισάγει μια οποιαδήποτε διαδικτυακή διεύθυνση URL ο στο χρήστη θα εμφανίζεται μια λανθασμένη σελίδα και έτσι θα θεωρεί ότι το Διαδίκτυο έχει διακοπεί και αυτό μας είναι αρκετό. Να θυμάστε ότι πρόκειται για διαμαρτυρία και δεν έχουμε ως σκοπό μας να “δολοφονήσουμε” το Ίντερνετ, αλλά προσωρινά να το “σβήσουμε” ό,τι χρειάζεται περισσότερο», αναφέρεται στην ανακοίνωση των χάκερ.

Πηγή: http://bit.ly/xiy7iy

Anonymous Threatens to DDOS Root Internet Servers

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An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet's core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert.

In a warning on Pastebin, Anonymous said last Thursday it would launch an action on March 31 as part of "Operation Global Blackout" that would target the root Domain Name System (DNS) servers.

Anonymous said the attack has been planned as a protest against "our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun."

The DNS translates a Web site name, such as http://www.idg.com, into a numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address, which is used by computers to find the Web site.

The 13 authoritative root servers contain the master list of where other nameservers can look up an IP address for a domain name within a certain top-level domain such as ".com."

The group said it had built a "Reflective DNS Amplification DDOS" (distributed denial-of-service) tool, which causes other DNS servers to overwhelm those root servers with lots of traffic, according to the Pastebin post.

But there are several factors working against the Anonymous campaigners, wrote Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security.

"They might affect a few of the root DNS servers, but it's unlikely they could take all of them down, at least for any period of time," Graham wrote. "On the day of their planned Global Blackout, it's doubtful many people would notice."

Although there are 13 root servers, an attack on one would not affect the other 12, Graham wrote. Additionally, an attack would be less successful due to "anycasting," which allows traffic for a root server to be redirected to another server containing a replica of the same data.

There are hundreds of other servers worldwide that hold the same data as the root servers, which increase the resiliency of DNS.

ISPs also tend to cache DNS data for a while, Graham wrote. ISPs may cache data for a day or two before needing to do a fresh lookup, a time period that can be set on servers known as "time-to-live." It means that even if a root server was down, it would not necessarily immediately affect an ISP's customers.

Lastly, root DNS servers are closely watched. If trouble started, the malicious traffic to the root servers would likely be blocked, with disruptions lasting a few minutes, Graham wrote.

"Within minutes of something twitching, hundreds of Internet experts will converge to solve the problem," he wrote.

Πηγή: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... rvers.html