Group of hacker calling itself "Anonymous" tried and failed to "master" amazon.com on Thursday. They admitted several times trying to penetrate the defenses and amazon.com, but always.Anonymous is a group that is headquartered in 4chan. org, conspire to attack sites that are considered enemies. And, "the enemy" them this time is they considered support busting Wikileaks. In the past, Anonymous successful attack the Motion Picture Association of America and the recording Industry Association of America.
That puts the Amazon being subjected to snap Anonymous, is because WikiLeaks is one of the customer website-hosting Amazon. Amazon's giving WikiLeaks boot after the release of controversial documents secret treasure site from the u.s. State Department. However, the service is stopped.
This week, Anonymous launches campaign against sites that "attacking" WikiLeaks. Under the banner of "operation Payback," a group of Anonymous attack many sites, including Amazon and official Web site of several countries. They successfully dropped mastercard.com and Visa site and PayPal. (Mastercard and Visa Transactions that run completely independent from their Web site is not affected). Also the site of the Government Sweden. But not to amazon.com.
Anonymous created the attack is not through hacking, aka menggangsir site, but only with direct traffic spike to giant targeted sites. This is called the DDoS attacks, denial of service in the short term, and is famous for it's hard to part of the site to maintain themselves.
The attack itself was not sophisticated. It's the equivalent of just pressing the button "refresh" thousands of times on all the time. Hacker using an automated program to do it.
Back to the problem is not broken Amazon, analysts IT media CNN declared their attacks carried out in an appropriate time. Ahead of the holiday long Christmas and new year, they strengthen the site for the anticipated rush of December.
Amazon has a very large well-known server capacity. This site into one target running amok Anonymous because this is where the original Wikileaks berumah. Pressure Government of the United States make Amazon closing services to sites owned by Julian Assange. Anonymous known as defenders of Wikileaks.
Amazon also has many years creating and perfecting a infrastructure ekastis, called EC2, which is designed to automatically to handle a surge in traffic giant scale. The company has the capacity of the server so much, and therefore run a hosting business sideline with other websites. Customers including the New York Times, Second Life, Etsy, Playfish, Indianapolis 500, and the Washington Post.
However the overall model is to build a business that Amazon is not affected by intense traffic surges. The holiday shopping season is DDoS attacks for a month in the Amazon server-so the company has been doing a lot of effort to fortify itself.
Anonymous actually realize this. However, they remain stormed, until finally, "We don't have enough strength," so they tweet on Twitter.
Instead, they decided to go to the PayPal API, and success. Even so, Paypal party pleads not affected. "These attacks is delaying the website itself, but has not been significantly impacted on payments," said a representative of PayPal.
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