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Ok. Not really. But a lot of what you read may just be hype. Over the last couple days, quite a few readers asked us about our opinion regarding the "cyber jihad" that's supposed to start on November 11th. Couple reasons we think this is not going to be an issues:
In the past, political attacks like this resulted in some more or less manual DoS attacks. Expect things like calls for supporters to reload particular "offensive" websites, or use the ping command to flood them. In some cases, supporters may be asked to install trojans. But chances are that the usual criminals will just take advantage of this and use it as a trick to install the regular criminal bots.
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Johannes 4473 Posts ISC Handler Nov 5th 2007 |
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Nov 5th 2007 1 decade ago |
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For some reason I just noticed there is a comment function now. Glad to see it!
I agree, probably just a lame DoS attack with Electronic Jihad tool. |
Dana Taylor 5 Posts |
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Nov 5th 2007 1 decade ago |
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Yes. I didn't advertise the comment function so we don't get overwhelmed.
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Johannes 4473 Posts ISC Handler |
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Nov 5th 2007 1 decade ago |
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This 'jihad' is interesting though does anyone have any concerns of this 'jihad' and the storm worm botnet?
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John 3 Posts |
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Nov 5th 2007 1 decade ago |
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The two, as far as we know, are unrelated. As Dr. J says the jihad is mostly hype from what we can see.
There may be some room for opportunists to take advantage whilst we are all looking in an other direction. Other than that biz as usual. |
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