Taking a shorter break than their last holiday, Anonymous is back at it already. Reports are coming in that they had completely knocked out CBS.com for a good period of time.
This wasn’t your regular DDoS attack, because if you went to CBS.com at the time Anon attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. Basically, Anonymous gained access to CBS.com and deleted EVERYTHING.
CBS.com has managed to put itself back up but we’ll be on the lookout of Anonymous’ next move. This is going to be interesting. The last time Anon went on a revenge spree, well, the DOJ, RIAA, MPAA, Universal, EMI, FBI and others all got a piece of the takedown fun. [@YourAnonNews, Lockerz]
Update: Looks like they just took down UniversalMusic.com again too!
wsDK_II
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 7:56 AMbest way to start your monday, hearing that the agents of the free are fighting the good fight :)
I wish i could invite them all over to my BBQ on australia day
Matt
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:23 AMYep, it’d definitely be a great time for DDoS*
*Distributed Delivery of Sausages
wsDK_II
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM:D
TSH
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9:49 AMSometimes Anonymous makes me shake my head, but this is not one of those times. Where corporations throw their weight around with money and lobbying, Anonymous throws *our* weight around with DDoS, botnets and takedowns like this.
SC
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9:50 AMOn the bright side, if CBS had a page counter and ads going they probably would be getting a lot of traffic atm
Tom
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 10:22 AMgo nerds
Parker
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:26 AMHa! Universal Music is just straight up broken. The url, it does NOTHING.
matteb
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:39 PMGood on them! I hope they keep this up until big kim is released
Sevrin
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:55 PMNow THIS is how war should be fought!
Lachlan Bromage
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 3:47 PMPlease anon. Take down ufos-aliens.co.uk. Stupid people should not make stupid websites.