Hacker in Action Protests Closure Megaupload

The day after protests against the draft Anti-Piracy Law Online (SOPA) and the Bill of Intellectual Property Protection (PIPA), the United States federal authorities take action against file-sharing site Megaupload, which was considered to violations of copyright (copyright). The founder of the site was also arrested on charges of conspiring to piracy.

A few hours later, the fight was made against the firm that performed the action U.S. law enforcement agencies in addressing the problem of piracy on the internet. Hacktivist group called Anonymous has claimed any hacking (hacking) of the U.S. Ministry of Justice website.

Anonymous favorite weapon used is called the attack “distribute denial of service” (DDoS). The trick is to send a flood of traffic to a website, which then crashed due to interference on his server. Usually, this does not involve hacking a security-related sites.

The results of this attack were later published in a tweet from @ AnonOps account. “Tango down! Http://universalmusic.com & http://www.justice.gov// # Megaupload”.
As per the information in that tweet, the Universal Music is also a target of attack,

This is the largest offensive conducted Anonymous. There are at least 5635 people use the network tool called “a low orbit ion cannon” or A Loic. This is a tool that is used to send floods of traffic to the target to the target.

Parties to the U.S. Justice Department admitted that there was a problem on the site. “But we’re not sure where it came from that problem,” said ministry spokesman.

In addition, the recording industry associations and industry were subjected to the big screen. Site owned by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also experienced similar problems, so it must be offline. Please note, during this time the recording industry and the industry is considered to be widescreen biggest supporters of the bill SOPA and PIPA.

RIAA spokesman also condemned the ‘attack’ this. “The fact that a number of sites experiencing problems related news is indeed very close one file-sharing site dangerous (due to piracy),” he said.

Meanwhile, Megaupload dealt with charges of harming the copyright holder (copyright) worth more than U.S. $ 500 million. This action is also based on the number of complaints to the material being hijacked.

Two founders Megaupload, Kim Dotcom (real name Kim Schmitz) and Mathias Ortmann has been arrested in Auckland, New Zealand, along with two other employees are considered to be involved. Three other suspects reportedly still in the search. | CNN | BBC