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Secure Websites are Even Vulnerable to DDOS Attacks

October 21, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Security, Internet Technology

Recent news on internet security reveals how vulnerable our online activities are, especially online transactions. This is because even teenagers can hack secure sites like the Church of Scientology website using DDOS attacks. Before this, I have blogged about the Limbo Malware and Invitation Virus (which turned out to be a hoax). Please read them if you are interested in more stories about internet security.

To explain this further, Agence France-Presse stated that “A teenager hacker has admitted carrying out a cyber attack that crashed Church of Scientology websites as part of a campaign by a mysterious underground group, justice officials said Friday.”

Moreover,

Dmitriy Guzner, 18, of New Jersey will plead guilty to computer hacking for his role in launching a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Scientology websites in January this year, the Justice Department said.

DDOS attacks occur when websites are overwhelmed by a large volume of malicious Internet traffic, making the sites unavailable to legitimate users.

According to information filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Guzner described himself as a member of a shadowy Internet-based group known as “Anonymous” that has carried out a series of protests against Scientology.

A statement released by the Justice Department in Los Angeles said Guzner would formally plead guilty in “coming weeks” at a court in New Jersey. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Founded in the United States in 1954 by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the Church of Scientology, which has attracted Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, was recognized as a religion there 20 years later.

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3 Responses to “Secure Websites are Even Vulnerable to DDOS Attacks”

kelly on October 24th, 2008 8:13 am

This is really terrible. There is really no 100% security online.

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NJ Guy on November 3rd, 2008 3:55 am

this is very frightening to read about, but there is no 100% security anywhere: there will be flaws that any hacker can ultimately somehow take advantage of. Ultimately, I think that security will rely on the server who is offering the web hosting. They need to be more responsible with guarding the content of the sites they host.

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Information, Facts and Trivias on November 3rd, 2008 4:16 am

That’s correct. You can’t be guaranteed of 100 security anywhere on the internet. It’s really a sad thing.

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