Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:59:07AM -0800, andrew.wallace wrote: I was reading about this- yeah really anonymous. http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/12/anonymous-releases-very-unanonymous-press-release/ Also: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/anonymous-isnt-loic.html All we

LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Interesting analysis of the 3 LOIC tool variants used in the Anonymous Operation Payback attacks on Mastercard, Paypal, etc. http://www.simpleweb.org/reports/loic-report.pdf LOIC makes no attempt to hide the IP addresses of the attackers, making it easy to trace them if they are using their

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Beavis
Interesting.. there's an ED about LOIC http://encyclopediadramatica.com/LOIC it even gives a instruction on how to deny the use of the tool: (funny) What if I get caught and Vd? You probably won't. It's recommended that attack with over 9000 other anons while attacking alone pretty much means

RE: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@multicasttech.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:20 AM To: North American Network Operators Group Subject: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks Interesting analysis of the 3 LOIC tool variants used in the Anonymous

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread andrew.wallace
Eubanks' t...@multicasttech.com; 'North American Network Operators Group' nanog@nanog.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, 11 December 2010, 17:34:20 Subject: RE: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks I think the skill level of these guys is clearly evidenced by one of the members who forgot to remove

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread John Adams
It's hard to believe that it took eight people to run wireshark and write this simplistic paper about LOIC. The analysis is weak at best (it seems they only had a few days to study the problem), and never analyzes the source code which has been widely available at

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:19:32AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: LOIC makes no attempt to hide the IP addresses of the attackers, making it easy to trace them if they are using their own computers. Perhaps the authors of the tool would rather keep the finite law

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:19:32AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: LOIC makes no attempt to hide the IP addresses of the attackers, making it easy to trace them if they are using their own computers. Perhaps the

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-11 Thread andrew.wallace
Group nanog@nanog.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, 11 December 2010, 21:21:29 Subject: Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks Perhaps the authors of the tool would rather keep the finite law enforcement busy rounding up clueless highschool kids who install this tool. In that sense it's both