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| Subject: Excellent: 'Expect more online attacks' Anonymous hackers say Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:00 am | |
| The hacking group Anonymous says it will launch online attacks every weekend in the wake of allegations it disrupted access to the Home Office website.
Anonymous Twitter messages warned of the attack on 4 April, and said: "EXPECT a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) every Saturday on the UK Government sites."
The website became inaccessible around 21:00 BST on Saturday, and was patchy from 05:00 on Sunday.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack floods a webserver with so many requests that it can no longer respond to legitimate users.
One message on Twitter said it was a protest against "draconian surveillance proposals" but another claimed it was over extradition from the UK to the US.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17648852 |
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