[AusNOG] Possible DDoS attack against .au governmental sites - ~65 minutes from now.

[Roland Dobbins]

There were some rumblings last week that a DDoS attack against .au  
governmental sites might take place today in order to protest the  
Internet filtering plans being posited by the present .au government.   
I didn't take it very seriously at the time, because no one seemed to  
have any specifics.

This has now changed; it's apparently Anonymous who're supposedly  
going to do this in about 70 minutes, and they've a considerable track  
record of mischief, sort of a '4chan Lite'.  I've no idea whether the  
attacks will actually take place, but heightened vigilance is a good  
idea, especially as outbound DDoS from botted hosts can be just as  
disruptive to the networks in question as inbound DDoS.

SANS posted something on it here:

<http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7108>

There's an extremely NSFW wiki page being used to coordinate the  
putative attacks, along with an IRC server/channel.   I'm not going to  
link to them here, but some digging with various search engines can  
find them with relative ease.

Again, I've no idea whether or not this will actually happen, just a  
heads-up.

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Sorry, sometimes I mistake your existential crises for technical
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