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FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation (wikileaks)
ComputerWorld ^ | December 30, 2010 | Robert McMillan

Posted on 12/31/2010 7:48:47 AM PST by epithermal

IDG News Service - Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month.

In documents posted Wednesday to the Smoking Gun Web site, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation describes the complex path its investigation has taken as it has searched for the computers that served as a central meeting point for the attacks.

(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hackers; tech

1 posted on 12/31/2010 7:48:52 AM PST by epithermal
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To: epithermal
After Germany's Federal Criminal Police raided service provider Host Europe, they linked one of he IRC servers to Dallas's Tailor Made Services, the documents state. Two hard drives were seized from Dallas's Tailor Made Services on Dec. 16, the Smoking Gun reports. Another IRC server has been traced to Fremont, California's Hurricane Electric.

Wonder if this is the source of the DDOS attacks on Free Republic on the last day of the "Lame Duck Session"?

2 posted on 12/31/2010 7:56:14 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Weird stuff was happening on the internet last night. Google and Yahoo were both down for a while. FR was fine as were links to articles. It was weird that search engines were showing the could not connect page.


3 posted on 12/31/2010 7:59:36 AM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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Weird stuff was happening on the internet last night.

Maybe the FCC is applying their new powers and tweeking the knobs already. hee hee hee

4 posted on 12/31/2010 8:22:20 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: epithermal
I'm sure they'll look for the Soros/New World Order perp's who instigated the whole Wikileaks diversion....

/sarc

5 posted on 12/31/2010 8:24:34 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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