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Security
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Written by Daniel
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 12:00 |
Experts warn that protest distributed denial-of-service attacks could backfire
Jun 17, 2009 | 05:39 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading
Security experts are warning U.S. citizens and others not to join Iranian opposition hacktivists for fear that continued distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Iranian government and other Websites will backfire and prompt Iranian officials to cut off the country's outside Internet access altogether.
Reports that the Iranian government had begun throttling back Internet bandwidth and limiting access to Websites have emerged during the past few days in the wake of protests from Iranian citizens about the recent election of President Ahmadinejad, who was declared the winner over Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran's national presidential run. Protesters have been DDoSing government-sponsored sites, mainly getting out the word through Twitter and other social networking sites via proxy servers. [Comments...]
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