Denial of Service Attack Takes Down United Wisconsin's Recall Walker Website!

[kpete]

Denial of Service Attack Takes Down United Wisconsin's Recall Walker Website!


A computer professional from Milwaukee was called in to United Wisconsin's office in Milwaukee this afternoon to see why its website, which is a main portal for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, crashed. The website hosts pertinent information regarding field coordination, contacts, FAQs and other information pertinent to the recall campaign. The computer scientist stated, via email that "The site was brought to its knees. I was asked to take a look, and there is an insane amount of requests hitting the server... which is the hallmark of ddos… still working on details."

I asked if there was an antidote and his reply was: "Not a cure all, but they should be able to be back up from this attack fairly soon. This is the stuff of highly paid security professionals... Grassroots groups usually are not targets of these kinds of sophisticated attacks. They are working with their hosting company, which is the best bet since they live and breath this stuff."


According to Wikipedia,

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person, or multiple people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely.



So far, no one has come forward to claim responsibility.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/14/1036448/-Denial-of-Service-Attack-Takes-Down-United-Wisconsins-Recall-Walker-Website!?via=siderec


very interesting in light of this:
Conservatives Plot to Burn, Shred, and Sabotage Scott Walker Recall Effort
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/conservative-sabotage-recall-walker-wisconsin
Plans to Sabotage 'Recall Walker' Effort, Destroy Petitions in WI Seen Discussed on Facebook
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8916

[Warpy]

1. Since it likely does come from a professional source

either a Republican/Koch allied security service or the Republicans, themselves, no one will claim responsibility. In addition, the Feds take DDOS attacks seriously even if they are against Democratic sites.

[pscot]

4. There's about a zillion dollars

of right wing money floating around on behalf of any looniness the atavistic, republican brain can conceive. I don't believe they recognize any limits. The Supremes have done more damage to this democracy than any enemy, foreign or domestic, since Appomatox.

[truedelphi]

6. I remember from a really kuhl documentary made about Tom DeLay

That one reason the richest Republicans are willing to part with so much moeny for political campaigns is that they see such huge returns. Donate two hundred thousand, but you will get at least one hundred thousand of it back the first year your candidate is elected.

If you can catch the Rick Perry article in Rolling Stone from two weeks ago, that man did nothing but take rich Republicans money and set up agencies to "oversee" whatever the industry that happened to offer him money. (The article is probably on their website to read.)

So if you are, say, the head of a nuclear waste corporation, you offer the governor big Sums of Money, and then the governor steps in and creates an oversight committee staffed by your selection of people that writes a lot of specious laws and lets your little nuke processing company slide on the safety and human health end of things.

This might cost a lot upfront, but since the oversight being so lax means you will save money 24/7, for the next dozen years, then you can count on seeing a huge profit.

[DainBramaged]

2. This DoS attack is absolutely run by the right wing flacks

Once they track back the ip's even if they're disguised, they can be blocked. I'm sure the Justice Department and FBI will get involved quickly.

[tsuki]

3. Check Facebook. They brag about their felonious activities there.

Will the network jackalists cover the attack. No, they're busy pimping for the next war.

[rhett o rick]

5. I smell KKKarl Rove. nm

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. The right people have taken note of this.