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2005-03-22 Britain

Al-Qaeda planning cyber attack on UK infrastructure

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-22 12:12:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A story on Slashdot last week detailed a 'reverse shell' attack launched by a plain jane user could bring some Linux servers to a grinding halt.

The fix was simple, but the writer who published the original article pointed out that many, many distributions of Linux were vulnerable to this simple attack.

When I was hosting a mirror for Haganah, some jihadis were discussing various means of DOS and DDOS atacks on Haganah, using some ancient ( and Windows-based ) tools. I have no doubt Islamists are planning a cyber attack at some point, but you have to wonder how effective they could be.

Posted by badanov 2005-03-22 6:41:27 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2005-03-22 6:41:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mirror for Haganah? Cool. Should be some sort of Meritorious Conduct in the Face of Morons Metal.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 10:18:51 AM|| 2005-03-22 10:18:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nah, they never did attack. They were all blow and no go.

As it is, I offered my brand spanking new FreeBSD web server as another mirror but Aaron hasn't gotten around to setting it up yet.

Oh well.

Posted by badanov 2005-03-22 12:17:29 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-03-22 12:17:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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