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Featured, News - Tuesday, September 28, 2010 19:11 - 8 Comments
Nuclear attack: Anonymous targets AFACT
The loose-knit confederation of internet activists who organise under the banner “Anonymous” appeared to hit Australia again this morning, with Operation Payback targeting a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).
AFACT represents a number of content producers such as movie and television studios and aims to reduce the impact of copyright infringement in Australia. The group has been involved in a high-profile lawsuit against national broadband provider iiNet. DDoS attacks attempt to cripple internet infrastructure through delivering a flood of data to servers and network infrastructure.
“Realise, you are forcing our hand by ignoring us. You forced us to DDoS when you ignored the people, ATTACKED the people, LIED TO THE PEOPLE! You are forcing us to take more drastic action as you ignore us, THE PEOPLE, now,” an individual claiming to represent Anonymous stated in a letter released before the attacks.
Anonymous is well known in Australia’s technology sector for what appeared to be several similar DDoS attacks earlier this year against Federal Government websites and other communications systems in protest against Labor’s mandatory internet filtering policy.








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