Planned Parenthood shuts down website after second hack
Source: the Hill
Planned Parenthood shut down its website Wednesday after it was hit by a second cyberattack within one week.
Officials confirmed Wednesday evening that the group was hit by a denial of service attack a tactic that sends massive amounts of traffic to a site at one time to shut it down.
We deeply regret that in order to more fully protect our websites from these extremist attacks, our full online content will be temporarily unavailable to people looking for good, accurate health information, Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthoods political arm, said in a statement.
She added that the group is taking every measure possible to mitigate any criminal efforts to undermine our mission and services.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/249728-planned-parenthood-shuts-down-website-after-second-hack
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)good luck with that
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)If you want a tutorial on DOS and DDOS attacks here is some light reading for you
https://www.imperva.com/docs/DS_Incapsula_The_Top_10_DDoS_Attack_Trends_ebook.pdf
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)fast as they can.
PP should put in a popup script where if anyone auto refreshes their website a hundred times in a row, a thousand pop-up windows open and the entire website is copy/downloaded to their computer as wallpaper.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Seems like the folks at NSA could figure out the source of these attacks pretty quickly, if they so wanted.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)had received threats after leaks of personnel information.