UK Home Office Brought To Its Knees

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous reacted against UK’s extradition policies by infiltrating the UK Home Office website. The attack comes under the “Op Trial At Home banner, #optrialath...
UK Home Office Brought To Its Knees
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  • Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous reacted against UK’s extradition policies by infiltrating the UK Home Office website.

    The attack comes under the “Op Trial At Home banner, #optrialathome on Twitter, supports anti-extradition protests for Chris Tappin, Richard O’Dwyer and Gary McKinnon and was announced by a Twitter account called @AnonopUK.”

    The attackers used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tactic to disrupt the web site of the Home Office and during the evening it was showing a page unavailable message with some basic contact information.

    Here are some tweets in response to the attack:

    #anonymous #ddos #anonops : Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office website… http://t.co/PZrpdqI2, see more http://t.co/rpUv7gwg 1 day ago via The Tweeted Times Mobile ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    #Anonymous often acts as a voice of those who can’t speak out themselves. April is #ChildAbuseAwareness month, let’s help it trend. 2 days ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Home Office get credit for one thing – their spokesman has recognised that the #Anonymous DDoS is a form of “online protest”. #OpTrialAtHome 2 days ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Anonymous takes down UK Home Office website – no wonder, invasion of privacy and huge waste of taxpayer dollars: http://t.co/IoseDele 2 days ago via Tweet Button ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    The Home Office website http://t.co/4jVxDV4I comes back online after the #Anonymous DDoS attacks and the very slow “cyber defence” response 2 days ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Hack the home office every saturday after the Vatican, CIA and Chinese Gov. fitting targets though…expect em’.. http://t.co/Odo5JlBK 2 days ago via Tweet Button ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    These are the people who want to have access to the details of all our emails, calls, texts and tweets… http://t.co/qH4C1zfT 2 days ago via Tweet Button ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Anonymous plans to attack GCHQ, the government’s spy agency, on April 14th in an effort to support online privacy.

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