As quoted by the site security firm Sophos, Dutch police arrested 19-year-old man from Hoogezand-Sappemeer, the area in northeastern Netherlands, on charges of conduct Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) against a web site owned by Dutch police and prosecutors.
The attack itself is conducted as a form of protest against the detention of adolescents 16 years, accused of participating in the operation of Payback, by doing a DDoS attack against MasterCard and PayPal's site, which is considered hostile to WikiLeaks because WikiLeaks unilaterally freeze the account.
Dutch police suspect accused of using virtual names Awinee, using software made by hackers (Anonymous), to flood the traffic on your website so that prosecutors can not be accessed by other users.
Not only that, Awinee also appealed to other users to participate in the attack which he embarked. Unfortunately, the software used DDoS Awinee not hide the IP address of the computer so the police could easily track the identity of the attacker.
In the Netherlands alone, DDoS attacks are illegal activities and could be subject to a maximum prison sentence of 6 years. Anonymous hacker group itself began to distribute computer software tools that allow users to be able to join with Operation Payback since last week.
According to computer security analyst from Panda Security, Sean-Paul Correll, people like Awinee very numerous and spread over seluuh world. Until now, there are more than 9 thousand internet users in the United States who have downloaded the software made by hackers Anonymous DDoS attackers.
After the U.S. home Internet users, there are about 3 thousand people from the UK Internet users who have downloaded the software. Then consecutive users from Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Russia and Australia with a total of more than a thousand people.
Sweden, a country in which WikiLeaks has a number of underground servers, occupied ranked 11th, with about 75 downloads of software. "They are the anonymous internet user, and they exist everywhere," said Paul CORREL.
Most likely, the proponents of this attack from among the children and adults from middle-class professionals. However, this group, said CORREL, do not have some sort of hierarchy.
"Anonymous is composed of various organizations, but may change at any time. This gives this group a large force. But on the other hand it also makes its actions became less focused," he added.
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