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2006-12-01 Home Front: WoT

U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack

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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Stop playing defense - go on the offense. Turn the Tiger Teams loose for some serious ratfucking.

Posted by .com 2006-12-01 01:52|| 2006-12-01 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The Department of Homeland Security confirmed an alert had been distributed but said there was no reason to believe the threat was credible.

Thereby cutting into their own credibility among those who know.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-01 03:22|| 2006-12-01 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 So, which is it, "penetrate and destroy the databases", or "denial of service"? They are two completely different objectives.

Ah, right...Reuters. It's about the level of reporting I expect from them. If we got an agriculture report in this style, it would contain words like "moo-cow" and "quack-quack".

Posted by gromky 2006-12-01 05:54|| 2006-12-01 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Waay back when I was trying to help out Internet Haganah, I saw what some of the Islamic crazies were considering doing. They did manage to knock his site off the internet for a tiny bit, but when he mirrored his site ( about 17 mirrors ) they gave up.

Anyways, reading about some of the tools they were considering using, like oversized pings and such, all measures considered to be dated and ineffectual against modern Unix-like kernels

Not saying its the same folks, but I haven't heard of any instance in which Ayrabs have tried against industrial strength sites nowadays.

It will be interesting to see how they do it, but I get the feeling these guys are a coupla generations behind where they need to be to really wreck havoc on financial sites.

Just my humble opinion.

Posted by badanov 2006-12-01 08:07|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-01 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 If we got an agriculture report in this style, it would contain words like "moo-cow" and "quack-quack".

Hahahaha!

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-01 08:26|| 2006-12-01 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 A denial of service attack isn't that hard to stop, especially for a large commercial site. Hacking (actually breaking into a site) should be protected against by the five levels of security that any site should maintain. Of course, there's always the jerk that tries to use "password" for a password, or their last name, or some other silly nonsense. That's why most modern systems use internally-generated random passwords. What's really needed is a clandestine group that can be notified when an attack is attempted, can follow the attack back to its host computer, and do some serious data-collecting before screwing the system over completely. There are quite a number of hackers in the US that would consider such an opportunity richly rewarding.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-01 14:29|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-01 14:29|| Front Page Top

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