Anonymous suspected of bringing down Talking Points Memo

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Muriel Kane

Update: TPM's Josh Marshall confirms attack

Update 2: TPM posts statement on the attack

Update 3: Service returned to TPM as of 1 p.m. ET. Here's publisher Josh Marshall's explanation of what happened.

On Friday morning, the political website Talking Points Memo posted mug shots of several individuals arrested for their alleged connection with denial of service attacks carried out by the hacktivist group Anonymous.

TPM tweeted at the time, "We sincerely hope our site doesn't go down for posting this," but precisely that appears to have happened by Friday afternoon.

At 5:23 PM EST, the website National Confidential reported that TPM was offline, but then added four minutes later that the site was back. However, over the course of several attempts between 5:30 and 6:00, Raw Story was unable to get the main TPM page to load.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/09/claim-anonymous-attack-brings-down-talking-points-memo/

[originalpckelly]

1. It doesn't make sense.

If anything, anonymous would want people to see that the horrible terrorist hackers are really just a bunch of dork kids, so having the publicity out there would be good. And anonymous would probably go after any website that did that.

[Ohio Joe]

5. No, it does not

Anon always takes credit for their actions, also, any script kiddie could do a DDOS attack.

[NNN0LHI]

2. The same photos are posted at Smoking Gun and they aren't down

I am beginning to wonder if Josh just forgot to pay his server bill or something?

Don

[originalpckelly]

3. Why go after only TPM?

It doesn't make sense. They would have gone after the other sites by now.

Even an unsuccessful DDoS attack would result in a surge of activity to these sites which would have been reported by now.

[ixion]

4. That's not really Anonymous' modus operandi

they always seem to choose more high-powered, high-profile targets.

[mdmc]

6. ..