Anonymous Attacks Tunisian Government for ‘War on Free Speech’
Web activists attacked and temporarily crippled several Tunisian government websites in an act of protest against the country’s embattled leadership. At least eight websites were targeted, including those of the president, prime minister, ministry of industry, ministry of foreign affairs, and the stock exchange, Al Jazeera reports. The attack, which began Sunday night, coincided with a national [...]
Security evangelist Sean-Paul Correll called the phenomenon “the future of cyber protests,” and a new report seems to substantiate his prediction of distributed denial of service attacks becoming a method frequently used by protesters and civil disobedients. Historically associated with extortion, DDoS has morphed into an instrument used for various nonfinancial reasons, including political ones, [...]
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