'Anonymous' Hackers Plan To Shut Down The Internet This Saturday

'Anonymous' Hackers Plan To Shut Down The Internet This Saturday

By Dan Graziano

BGR

March 28, 2012

Notorious hacker group Anonymous has previously stated its intentions to shutdown the Internet on Saturday,

March 31st, as a form of protest. "To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers

who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, on March 31, anonymous will shut

the Internet down," the group stated last month. "Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to 'kill' the Internet

we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most." Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut

down the Internet by disabling its core DNS servers, thus making websites inaccessible. Cyber security experts

claim that it is unlikely that such an attack would be effective, however, and there is really no need to fear. Read

on for more.

"The Anonymous hackers can certain cause local pockets of disruption, but these disruptions are going to be

localized to networks where their attack machines are located, or where their 'reflectors' are located", said Robert

Graham of Errata Security. "It's unlikely they could take all of them down, at least for any period of time. On the

day of their planned Global Blackout, it's doubtful many people would notice."

Graham does issue a cautionary note, however. "Just because I say Anonymous can't do it doesn't it mean it can't

be done," the security expert said on Errata's blog.

 

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