The day after protests against the draft Anti-Piracy Law Online (SOPA) and the Bill of Intellectual Property Protection (PIPA), the United States federal authorities take actionagainst file-sharing site Megaupload, which was considered to violations of copyright(copyright). The founder of the site was also arrested on charges of conspiring to piracy.A few hours later, the fight was made against the firm that performed the action U.S. law enforcement agencies in addressing the problem of piracy on the internet. Hacktivistgroup called Anonymous has claimed any hacking (hacking) of the U.S. Ministry of Justicewebsite.
Anonymous favorite weapon used is called the attack "distribute denial of service"(DDoS). The trick is to send a flood of traffic to a website, which then crashed due to interference on his server. Usually, this does not involve hacking a security-related sites.
The results of this attack were later published in a tweet from @ AnonOps account. "Tangodown! Http://universalmusic.com & http://www.justice.gov// # Megaupload".
As per the information in that tweet, the Universal Music also became the target of attacks,and the site can not be opened when trying to access VIVAnews.
This is the largest offensive conducted Anonymous. There are at least 5635 people use the network tool called "a low orbit ion cannon" or A Loic. This is a tool that is used to sendfloods of traffic to the target to the target.
Parties to the U.S. Justice Department admitted that there was a problem on the site. "Butwe're not sure where it came from that problem," said ministry spokesman.
In addition, the recording industry associations and industry were subjected to the big screen. Site owned by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and MotionPicture Association of America (MPAA) also experienced similar problems, so it must beoffline. Please note, during this time the recording industry and the industry is consideredto be widescreen biggest supporters of the bill SOPA and PIPA.
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