[132559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Mon Nov 29 01:02:40 2010
In-Reply-To: <940604.37707.qm@web59605.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
From: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:03:03 -0500
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The one thing I found interesting was the InfoSecIsland poll where the major=
ity of Security Practitioners polled actually supported the Jester's methods=
...
Stefan Fouant
Sorry for the top post. Sent from my iPad
On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:29 PM, "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com=
> wrote:
> Hi Nanog,
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> Some more information here -
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ecwnn/wikileaks_hacked_ahead_of_se=
cret_us_document/c176lcb
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> The hacker has featured previously in a news article on his attack platfor=
m -
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> https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3258-Hacker-Releases-Second-Video-o=
f-Enhanced-XerXeS-DoS-Attack-on-Apache-Vulnerability-.html
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> Regards,
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> Andrew
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From:Joel Esler <joel.esler@me.com>
> To:Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
> Cc:North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent:Monday, 29 November 2010, 1:56:34
> Subject:Re: wikileaks unreachable
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> I've heard it's a DOS (not DDOS) according to twitter. Allegedly according=
to the person doing the DOS:
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> Just so we are all straight and clear - wikileaks hit is not a
> 'Distributed' DoS, its a simple DoS - I dont use intermediaries or
> botnets. Sun Nov 16 - 15:28 EST
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> http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
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> Joel
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> On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Wil Schultz wrote:
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>>> DOS is probably because they released some more stuff.
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>>> "Secret US Embassy Cables"
>>> http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
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>> DDOS according to this
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>> http://www.securityweek.com/wikileaks-under-denial-service-attack-ddos
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>> Regards
>> Marshall
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>>> -wil
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>>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:38 PM, James Downs wrote:
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>>>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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>>>>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations
>>>>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
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>>>> Reported they were under attack: http://bgg.lv/h2pmsd
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