Friday February 25, 2011
Alias The Jester:
'Patriot' Hacker Takes Down Westboro Baptist Church Website
Westboro Baptist Church has become a focal point for hatred after their pickets of funerals in the US.
Now a 'patriotic' hacker called The Jester has levelled a cyber-attack at the church's website -- using a tool originally developed against Jihadist sites.
From The Register:
The Jester is known to have helped develop an application layer attack tool for assaulting jihadist sites, called XerXeS, a utility he has taken to applying to a range of targets, including WikiLeaks, and also, it is suspected, the controversial church, led by fire-and-brimstone minister Fred Phelps. The tool attacks sites at the application level and is therefore more sophisticated than the packet-flooding LOIC that's become the main artillery piece in assaults by Anons against those who have earned the loosely knit group's collective displeasure over recent months.
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