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'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:05:34 -0500
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/29/5544493-patriotic-hacker-claims-credit-for-wikileaks-attack A single hacker is taking credit for the "mass distributed denial of service attack" that threatened to take down WikiLeaks shortly before its scheduled post of thousands of classified memos between U.S. diplomats. At approximately the same time WikiLeaks alerted its Twitter followers to the DDoS attack, "Jester," a self-proclaimed "hacktivist for good," sent this message from his Twitter account: @th3j35t3r (Jester) www.wikileaks.org— TANGO DOWN - INDEFINITLEY — for threatening the lives of our troops and 'other assets' _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack Ned Fleming (Nov 30)
- Re: 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack Jeffrey Walton (Nov 30)
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- Re: 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack Brance Amussen (Nov 30)
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