BRATISLAVA, January 30, (WEBNOVINY) — The hacker group Anonymous announced more attacks on Slovak websites. After attacking websites of the political party 99 Percent, financial conglomerate Penta and the Cabinet, current attacks should target websites of the Slovak Parliament and the Finance Ministry. However, individual activists with Anonymous have not agreed yet whether to attack both websites, yet the goal is clear: to express disapproval of Slovakia launching the process of ratifying the controversial intellectual property trade pact, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). They also want to support the Gorilla protests which after an initial protest in Bratislava last Friday are to follow in various Slovak towns, including the capital this week. Anonymous announced that the attacks will take place at 1800 CET this Monday, but website of the parliament was already unavailable for most of the afternoon.
The attack should also be a form of protest against lawsuit the Office of the Parliament plans to file against organizers of last Friday’s demonstration, whom they accuse of being responsible for minor damages the building suffered. “We’ll protect ordinary people from blackmailing and corrupt system in our country through available means. We are The Anonymous. We are The Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us,” informed a press release.
Anonymous is a worldwide independent internet-based group without any structure or leadership which came into existence through the imageboard 4chan.org and gained fame in 2003. Anonymous organized protests against the Church of Scientology in the U.S.A. and later participated at uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011. They use the mask depicting English Catholic Guy Fawkes, infamous for the 1605 Gunpowder Plot intended to assassinate King James I of England, as symbol.
In on-line environment the group mostly deals with distributed denial of service attacks which overload Internet servers rendering target websites unavailable without directly accessing the websites as is done in hacking. Virtually anyone with basic IT knowledge could be able to participate in DDoS attacks.
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