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Hackers tear down NASDAQ
Published: 15 February, 2012, 03:35
Nasdaq Market Site in New York's Times Square. ( REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
TAGS: Internet, Information Technology, USA, Finance
The website of stock exchange operator NASDAQ is offline after being attacked by an onslaught of distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks.
A NASDAQ OMX Group spokesman confirmed to Reuters Tuesday evening that NASDAQ.com was the victim of a series of DDoS attacks starting late Monday, and, by Tuesday, the site was alternating between being available and being offline.
"The website wasn't hacked, nobody got any information. What they did was try to block access for our users," NASDAQ spokesman Joseph Christinat adds to the agency. Christinat adds that the impact has so far only affected the websites availability to online users and has not impacted stocks.
"We experienced intermittent service disruptions on our corporate website and we are working to resolve the issues," adds Christinat.
Additionally, the website for BATS Exchange has also been targeted by DDoS attacks.
In a distributed denial of service attack, culprits flood the servers of websites with a surge of traffic to heavy for them to handle. The result is a crippling affect which renders the server’s information unavailable to online audiences.
L0NGwave99, a mysterious online hacktivist (or group of hacktivists), is claiming to be responsible for the attack. In a release issued Tuesday, an operative writes "This DDoS Operation over NASDAQ is done in support of the great and rooted 99% movement, whom the L0NGwave99 Group has decided to give a present."
While it is unclear of this party is aligned with the Anonymous collective, the UK's the Guardian has alluded to such. Last year, alleged members of the group momentarily took down the site for the New York Stock Exchange.
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"Completely misleading. I was hoping to read about Axe wielding maniacs rampaging down Wall St. that put some fear in the pointed heads of these wankers. Very disappointed." There will be a day, my friend, when the streets will be filled with blood, and the criminals will have nowhere to hide. I believe that America is going to have a total meltdown that would make the French revolution look like a small soccer riot. There will be a guillotine with a name on it for each banker, politician, and national traitor. It is barbaric, but no less barbaric than what the bankers and elite have planned for us. Natural law will always prevail over those governments that try to oppose it.
"Socialism is Good", you've exposed yourself as a disinfo troll. Trying to equate opposition to NASDAQ to Soviet Communism might have worked during the cold war, but anyone with a thinking mind can see past this stretch of a claim. Seeing as most of the stocks in this country are owned by the 1%, disrupting NASDAQ has little to no effect on the 99%, and even if it did, the NASDAQ by itself does more damage to the 99% than Anonymous ever will. I will say this, though: Anonymous needs a quick change of tactics. If they want to live up to their messages, they should quit with childish DDOS pranks and shutting down websites and instead hack the CIA, FBI, Mossad, DOD, NSA, and expose all of these criminal agencies' plans to subjugate populations and enact terrorism. If the links between CIA, Mossad, Al-Qaida, AIPAC, and the like were exposed, war with Iran might be averted due to the media frenzy trying to cover up the explosive truth, and THAT would be TRUE activism.
"DDoS attacks" are annoying but in this case I remember Nietzsche saying:"What ever does not kill you makes you stronger" especially related to systemic issues.
As the internet today seems to serve private subversive corporate interests I am fast coming to the conclusion that we are perhaps (perhaps) I say better without it.
But if one is to take all this seriously and not as a exercise of corporate trouble shooting procedures where someone takes a website down and another puts it back online there would have to be more than a script kiddy moment of fame where botnet networks and powerful governments threaten the whole internet and the media picks up only on these childish pranks.