Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
tsamsoniw writes "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""
Organised religion/dogma is ruining this world (Score:0, Informative)
The irony of their actions condemns me!
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Re:Someone tell me (Score:5, Informative)
Because the DDOS isn't coming from those say... 10 computers. It's coming from god knows how many computers in a botnet made up of computers from probably every country that has computers connected to the internet.
Re:Its becoming clear (Score:4, Informative)
Lots of folks have diseases of the mind, but somehow manage to be only a minor annoyance or slight nuisance to others. Like the crazy lady who hurls cats at me.
Others seem Hell-bent on trying to make their sickness impact my personal freedom and values of liberal democracy as greatly as possible on my front lawn.
The Founding Fathers spoke of "Freedom of Religion," but they really meant "Freedom from Religion", of others, as well.
Democracy, not Theocracy.
Re:Its becoming clear (Score:3, Informative)
The Crusades.....you mean a defensive war waged against muslims by christians? Palastine was settled by christians and muslims came and took it over (ie, the muslims invaded).