He must be very proud...
...of being the hacking equivalent of a group of kids playing knock door run.
The website for Greater Manchester Police was targeted by two Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks yesterday, which rendered the site unavailable for more than two hours. The operators of two Twitter accounts have claimed responsibility. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) released a statement confirming that the force's " …
@Lost all faith; Yeah... while I don't want to turn this site into Slashdot (#), the story did remind me of the obligatory XKCD:- https://xkcd.com/932/
Also, "n0w1337" and "g0d1337"- how cliched-wannabe can you get? 13375p34k hasn't been cool for the better part of a decade. It's probably not a coincidence that its popularity started declining around the time it was becoming so common that it started appearing in newspaper articles explaining it to your Gran...
(#) Or *do* I?....... :-)
I'm glad to hear that their website isn't linked to their operational networks (or so they say...) but these days more and more use is made by the filth of electronic operational tools. and even if they're on separate networks they still need IP addresses. What happens when the script kiddies find out that IP address and start DDoSing that instead of the public website?
(I'm not suggesting it's a good idea, you understand)
…on a par with connecting to your neighbours non-passworded WiFi and “Pwning” them by rebooting their router . Hardcore stuff!
I love how the police have decided that this is a “malicious attempt to disrupt services” despite admitting that “It isn’t a security breach, and it doesn’t affect our operational capability”.
"I love how the police have decided that this is a “malicious attempt to disrupt services” despite admitting that “It isn’t a security breach, and it doesn’t affect our operational capability”."
It isn't a security breach, nor does it affect their operational capability, because it wasn't targetting their internal network. However, it clearly is a malicious attempt (not sure what, if anything, would qualify as a non-malicious DDoS attack...) to disrupt a GMP-provided service - namely their public-facing website. So those two statements seem quite reasonable to me.
In a reboot of Life on Mars A-Division are inexplicably transported forward in time to 2015 and must solve crimes that didn't exist back in '74.
Cue Gene Hunt pinning a IT Service Delivery Manager to the wall with the sort of tirade most of us would get sacked for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5XnpK5Hzo0