WING TV Hacked?

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WING TV Hacked?

Postby albion » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:37 pm

Is this plausible? I'm afraid I don't follow Victor and Lisa...<br><br><br><br>WING TV Hacked!<br>by Victor Thorn & Lisa Guliani<br>        <br>         <br><br>“My suspicion is that you are on someone’s radar, big time.”<br><br>The above words were told to us by someone who has been in the upper echelon of computer security for the past two decades. And yes, after 1 ½ years, WING TV has finally become such a danger to the bloodthirsty cabal which executed 9-11 (and beyond) that they are now taking extreme steps to shut us down.<br><br>These cowards who lurk in the shadows are doing so by jamming our server with millions and millions of what appear to be “legitimate” hits from various IP addresses, but in reality they’re coming from “spoofed” locales that are highly sophisticated in nature.<br><br>In other words, our server isn’t showing a single IP or IP range; but instead this massive spoofing is being distributed by a source which has “virtually unlimited resources to create bogus traffic.” (Any idea who that could be!)<br><br>Our contact also mentioned other possibilities, such as SMURFS, Fragle syn-floods, zombies, or a vanilla DDOS (all of which sound like a Dawn of the Dead cartoon show).<br><br>Nonetheless, as anyone who’s been trying to watch our show during the past week knows, our daily broadcast is either: (a) crawling along at a snail’s pace, (b) freezing up, (c) or simply shutting down entirely. This massive “jamming” is similar to a radio station being hammered by an influx of outside interference, or a radar screen that is “spoofed” and all the operator at the screen sees is snow. (By the way, that was how Ron Brown’s plane was deliberately made to crash – its radar was “spoofed”.)<br><br>To give you some idea of how MASSIVE this hack-job was, even though we tripled our bandwidth last week, our server told us that if left “uncapped,” our total usage would have been 9 terrabytes/month. Now, if you’re like us, you have no idea how much bandwidth this is. We have been told, though, that 1 terrabyte equals 1 trillion bytes, and it would only take 8 terrabytes to digitize all the tapes and movies in a typical video store. And we were getting hit with even more firepower than that! This wasn’t something being done by some snot-nosed kid sitting in his basement!<br><br>In essence, we were being hammered at about 622 megabits/second, which would have had to originate from numerous T3 pipes, or even an OC-12 pipe. We’re not exactly sure what all this mumbo-jumbo means, but every time we bumped-up our bandwidth, the attackers bumped-up their server requests.<br><br>The big question at this point is: why is WING TV being attacked with such intensity? The answer, at least from our perspective, is twofold:<br><br>First, none of this happened until after our historic appearance at Ground Zero on the 4th anniversary of 9-11. On that morning and afternoon, we stood with our 14-foot 9-11 WORLD TRADE CENTER CONTROLLED DEMOLITION banner at the epicenter of those tragic terror attacks and created a firestorm like none that’s ever been seen before. We finally put the TRUTH right there out in the open for the entire world to see at Ground Zero, and it pissed the powers-that-be off more than we could have imagined.<br><br>Subsequently, The Village Voice ran an article the following day with our banner in live full-color 9-11 Conspiracists Invade Ground Zero. Then, the next week the American Free Press ran as their front-page lead article Victor Thorn’s Bombs in WTC which reinforced the notion that NYC’s firemen and police officers know that 9-11 was an inside job, but are being silenced by a city-wide gag order.<br><br>We also ran several other articles on the WING TV homepage that are being widely disseminated around the Internet:<br><br>more:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://69.28.73.17/wingtvhack.html">69.28.73.17/wingtvhack.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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not trying to do dismiss this

Postby glubglubglub » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:55 pm

but with the right connections and/or a modicum of skills it's exceedingly easy to pull off an attack like that...ie, it's well within the reach of some 30-something wannabe brownshirt or the proverbial 12 y/old geek, and even if you can't pull it off romanians ( or other eastern europeans ) will gladly do so for a small fee.<br><br>Without knowing more about the case it's entirely possible some 101st fighting keyboarder/pro-am debunker got angry and decided to pull a stunt like this...that they're not reporting receiving a ransom email suggests this is politically motivated -- most ddos'es are either spite-based or a ransom attempt on low-budget commercial sites, which to someone (esp. someone with limited english) Wing TV could appear to be.<br><br>These folks seem a bit self-aggrandizing, too, so between that and the lack of additional info it's hard to know how much to make of this -- it sounds like someone doesn't like what they're saying but b/c the attack as described is easily accessible there's no way to guage the seriousness/status of the attacker. <p></p><i></i>
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