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

[Curtis Bayne]

I know for a fact that there are Anonymous on this list though I doubt these would have any involvement in these attacks - I have seen postings from this list reposted on the 4chan messageboard.

I would suggest you use relevant discretion when collaborating, should these attacks occur - there's a good chance you could receive backlash.

We have been on the receiving end of an Anonymous initiated DDoS attack - these attacks are not something to sniff at - there are a significant number of malicious professionals with access to significant amounts of bandwidth who trawl these lists.

Regards,
Curtis


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of Bevan Slattery
Sent: Wed 9/9/2009 5:57 PM
To: Roland Dobbins
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Possible DDoS attack against .au governmental sites -~65minutes from now.
 
Thanks for the heads up.

Time to sit back and wait for the mrtg graphs tell the story :)

[b] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Roland Dobbins
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:56 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Possible DDoS attack against .au 
> governmental sites - ~65minutes from now.
> 
> 
> 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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> 
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> 
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