Anonymous takes down Home Office website in attack against Government surveillance plans

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126733/Anonymous-takes-Home-Office-website-attack-Government-surveillance-plans.html

By Pamela Owen
Mail Online
7 April 2012

The Home Office website has gone down after an apparent cyber attack in 
protest against Government surveillance plans.

A message on the site said the page was currently unavailable 'due to a 
high volume of traffic', suggesting a denial of service attack had been 
perpetrated.

A message on Twitter claiming to be from Anonymous, a loosely organised 
group of hackers who promote access to free speech, information and 
transparency, said the action was 'for [the Home Office's] draconian 
surveillance proposals'.

However, another message claimed it was over extradition rules from the 
UK to the U.S.

One tweet claiming to be from Anonymous said: 'You should not give UK 
citizens to foreign countries without evidence. If an offence happened 
in the UK, so should the trial.'

[...]


_______________________________________________
LayerOne Security Conference
May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA
http://www.layerone.org