Anonymous Hackers Shoot For Scientologists, Hit Dutch School Kids

[Ian David]

Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.

Coordination broke down Friday among the loose affiliate of online troublemakers known as Anonymous as they tried to continue their ongoing attacks against Scientology.

The group has spent the last few days trying to keep down the scientology.org website via a distributed denial of service attack, posting sensitive Scientology documents around the web, and up-voting anti-Scientology stories on Digg. The attack, dubbed Project Chanology, has a wiki that attempts to tell Anonymous 'members' what to do, though the advice is ever-changing and often contradictory.

But the Church of Scientology hired Prolexic, a company that specializes in protecting websites from DDOS attacks. Prolexic's protection works by publicly substituting a Prolexic server for the attacked server, filtering out the bad traffic and passing the good traffic to the site's real server.

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/anonymous-hacke.html

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. They have K.K.T.S.P.

to cover their A.F.s, because they are the authority.

Scientology, the world's most successful religion created wholly by three drunk science fiction authors, two of whom woke up the next morning and forgot about it.

[Ian David]

5. Isaac Asimov didn't really drink. Except for Grasshoppers, but I don't think he got drunk. n/t

[wuushew]

2. Foolish Scientologists, where is your Gawd now?

n/t

[MadHound]

3. As much as I dislike Scientology, I can't condone these kinds of attacks

This is no better than a bunch of freeper hackers trying to shut down liberal sites. If you want to put up your own website going after the Scientologists, fine, go for it and the best of luck to you. But this sort of attack isn't good for society.

[Pavulon]

4. Unfocused DDOS

seems pretty cheesy. I expected a bit more from these guys. A true compromise (edge, routing / switching, clients, data) would be more effective at disrupting a cult.

Attacking web server for when the target does not run ecommerce is pointless.