10:15 Anonymous launched an attack on fax machines | |
| Activists from the group Anonymous have come up with a new way to annoy firms wronged Wikileaks. Yesterday at 13:00 GMT they began to bombard the fax. On IRC-channel lined with the fax numbers of six companies, culled from public sources. They are invited to send messages of arbitrary content through online download services such as faxing or MyFax.com FaxZero.com. It is recommended for this use multistep Tor proxy or other reliable chain of proxy servers. The message can include a logo of Anonymous, and random quotes from the documents on Wikileaks. As you know, before "Operation Payback" limited only to DDoS-attacks. "The enemy adapts to our strategies. Gentlemen, but they are driven by heavy-handed bureaucracy. We can change quickly, "- said in a message on the IRC-Channel Operation Payback It is difficult to assess what damage does the attack on the faxes. Soon after the start of the company Netcraft Web experts have estimated that it involved 73 users. I must say that this is not the first time that such a method is used to vex corporations. In January 2008, similar to the bombing was organized by fax to the Church of Scientology, one of the previous target group Anonymous. Up until now, despite the widespread coverage of their activity in the media, the actions of Anonymous did not inflict serious damage to the company's business. MasterCard said last week that they have slowed down the transaction SecureCode, but the backend Visa and MasterCard has worked flawlessly. Paypal.com website on Thursday went to the Down, but the company stated that the attack is virtually no impact on servers for service transactions. To be sure, an attack in varying degrees, causing financial losses to these companies. Them in any case need to incur additional expenses for maintenance and upgrade infrastructure, and they lose some customers due to the unavailability of its Web sites. The attack on the faxes can also be effective. Members of the group Anonymous has started publishing a list of numbers on which faxes have stopped lifting the handset. One of them - fax Visa, listed on the site of Yahoo Finance, was off on Monday afternoon. Companies are struggling with the problem as they can. In the call center to a question about Visa fax number the operator said that he could not provide this information. | |
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