Israeli Company Uses Botnet to Attack Hezbollah Website

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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I meant to send this yesterday, but I actually have a life -- or at least
something that vaguely resembles one. :-)

Via Ha'aretz.com.

[snip]

Last week, while trying out breaking-in tools developed by Chinese hackers,
an Israeli Network security company, Applicure, brought down the Hezbollah
Web site (hizbollah.tv), using no more than 10 bots, which are computers
controlled by hackers.

Reports of hackers taking out Web sites by bombarding them with massive
amounts of information commonly appear in the news media. But often it's
hard to estimate both the magnitude of the phenomenon and the ease with
which even laymen can use existing web tools.

Those attacks geared at bringing down Web sites are know as either denial
of service attacks (DOS) or distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS),
and make use of Botnet networks - large networks of unsuspecting computer
users hijacked by hackers with viruses and Trojan horses. According to
Chinese CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), the threat on China's
internal network has multiplied by 20 in 2007.

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More:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073531.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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