Debating The Scientology DDoS Attacks - Religion's critics debate whether tactic accomplishes anything... 30.11.1999 / Broadbandreports Last week a group of hackers named Anonymous announced they were waging war on Scientology for the religion's consistent attacks on critics, among other offenses. The primary thrust of the offensive appears to be DDoS attacks aimed at taking primary Scientology sites offline. Scientology ultimately hosted their web server with Prolexic Technologies, who specialize in protecting companies from such attacks. ABC News says the attacks were fairly run of the mill:Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220Mbps of traffic. . . '220Mbps is probably about in the middle of attack sizes,' Nazario said. 'It's not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this.' On average, the attacks lasted about 30 minutes and used up 168M bps of bandwidth. In the past year, Arbor has seen attacks on other sites hit 40Gbps, or 200 times the strength of the Anonymous event.Meanwhile longstanding critics of Scientology are coming out against the attacks, publicly stating they doubt they accomplish much of anything. Mark Bunker of anti-Scientology site xenutv posted a video saying the attacks may actually hurt other efforts to deal with the religious groups tactics. Anonymous issued another video today announcing protests on February 10.read comment(s)]]>
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