Forwarded from: William Panos <bp (at) affordablehomesandcondos.com> http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-hackers-attack-orlando-20110628,0,5300394.story By Mark Schlueb Orlando Sentinel June 28, 2011 The computer hacker group Anonymous — credited with crashing the websites of Visa and MasterCard in support of Wikileaks — launched what it called "Operation Orlando" on Tuesday, disabling a tourism website and the mayor's own campaign site. In news releases and emails to the Orlando Sentinel, the loose-knit group issued a "declaration of war" and promised to bring down a different Orlando-related website every day. One hacker told the Orlando Sentinel the group may target Orlando police officers, state lawmakers and the Florida Democratic Party. Tuesday, the group chose an odd target: orlandofloridaguide.com, an unsophisticated, privately owned tourism site that has no apparent affiliation with City Hall. That website went offline shortly before 10 a.m. and remained down until Tuesday night. Later, the group focused its wrath more directly by crippling Mayor Buddy Dyer's campaign re-election website, buddyfororlando.com. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Wed Jun 29 2011 - 00:07:26 PDT
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