Anonymous targets Irish Government

nesf

Search Twitter for #OpIreland.


If you need to file any tax receipts get them in fast....


I'm not sympathetic to this group but the Irish Government is reaping what it sowed here trying to push through harsh legislation in a very unstable global climate.

Suryavarman

nesf wrote: »

http://topsy.com/s?type=tweet&q=%23OpIreland

If you need to file any tax receipts get them in fast....


I'm not sympathetic to this group but the Irish Government is reaping what it sowed here trying to push through harsh legislation in a very unstable global climate.

Link isn't working.

nesf

Suryavarman wrote: »

Link isn't working.

Search Twitter for #OpIreland

Dr Galen

This might be about to get interesting. If they really do intend to launch an attack against any state services/sites, then who knows what they might target.

nesf

Dr Galen wrote: »

This might be about to get interesting. If they really do intend to launch an attack against any state services/sites, then who knows what they might target.

Eircom would be in for a hammering anyway. DoJ too.

irishdude11

Anonymous are going to target the Irish government...Id say the TDs wont get a wink of sleep worrying about this...after all, arent Anonymous the guys that have been known to "shut down websites for about half an hour"! The country will surely implode if Anonymous launch one of their dastardly strikes that takes down dail.ie for half an hour.

nesf

irishdude11 wrote: »

Anonymous are going to target the Irish government...Id say the TDs wont get a wink of sleep worrying about this...after all, arent Anonymous the guys that have been known to "shut down websites for about half an hour"! The country will surely implode if Anonymous launch one of their dastardly strikes that takes down dail.ie for half an hour.

Yeah the time of day chosen is, um, yeah...

Slydice

looks like they just took http://www.justice.ie/ down

AnonOpsSweden Anonymous Sweden
@AnonIRC Word has it that ships are sailing to target justice.ie #OpIreland #irishSOPA #anonymous / Yeh, our people!

Bullseye1

Maybe they might improve things.

Yup, it's gone.

Dr Galen

Working for me. Advance warning perhaps?

It's back now. Hope they do this tomorrow when it will affect something.

stacexD

Still down for me

Cardinal Richelieu

10 year old could take down the Irish government site, we don't have any cyper defences.

enviro

Down for me too

micropig

yep down here too - not much good at this time of night

Dr Galen

Lads I am still able to access the DOJ website no problem. Hasn't been down anytime I've checked since that tweet

nesf

Follows my own thinking on this matter: http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/anonymous-attacks-on-ireland-will-hurt.html?m=1

nesf

Dr Galen wrote: »

Lads I am still able to access the DOJ website no problem. Hasn't been down anytime I've checked since that tweet

It's still down for me.

*shrugs*

micropig

Dr Galen wrote: »

Lads I am still able to access the DOJ website no problem. Hasn't been down anytime I've checked since that tweet

I tried it in both internet explorer and google chrome and neither will open it for me

breadmonster

dept of finance gone aswell
http://finance.gov.ie/

drunkmonkey

Down for me, good to see the internet warriors rock in to help the cause. Was in a good mind to send them an email telling them about the shenanigans here. Someone else must have got there before me.

antodeco

Noo! Put in for 4 years tax returns online this morning!!

nesf

antodeco wrote: »

Noo! Put in for 4 years tax returns online this morning!!

It should effect that at all. This is a DDOS attack, think of it being like stopping people ringing a phone number because you keep calling and keeping it busy.*



*I'm not experienced in this area but this is to the best of my knowledge what Anonymous tend to do in these attacks.

meglome

justice and finance are down for me. Though i'm using someone else's Eircom connection so who knows.

meoklmrk91

This is about to get messy, someone just posted Sean Sherlocks mobile number on twitter and anon just retweeted it.

micropig

breadmonster wrote: »

dept of finance gone aswell
http://finance.gov.ie/

Down for me aswell

Keep it rolling!

gawker

breadmonster wrote: »

dept of finance gone aswell
http://finance.gov.ie/

This could actually be a case of them not paying for a domain renewal...

drunkmonkey

Revenue site is down for me as well.

Hilarious : )

micropig

gawker wrote: »

This could actually be a case of them not paying for a domain renewal...

lol this is probably more accurate

antodeco

Is it a denial of service act? Surely it would make more sense to force a redirect to an information page detailing what they want (sopa I'm taking it) rather than just annoying people who don't know what's going on..!

Solair

Will this really make any difference?

I doubt many people visit most Government sites anyway other than the ones you have to pay stuff through like Revenue, MotorTax, NCT (kinda government) etc etc.

I don't think justice.ie has anything like essential services on it. It's just a general information site.

gawker

If they really want to win people over, I'd suggest they take down householdcharge.ie pronto! I don't really think this type of tactic is going to help anything though to be honest.

micropig

Solair wrote: »

Will this really make any difference?

I doubt many people visit most Government sites anyway other than the ones you have to pay stuff through like Revenue, MotorTax, NCT (kinda government) etc etc.

I don't think justice.ie has anything like essential services on it. It's just a general information site.

Probably more of a symbolic gesture

Orion

please please please take down www.leovaradkar.ie

Sierra Oscar

Orion wrote: »

please please please take down www.leovaradkar.ie

Its down? :eek:

Im getting a DB error message anyways.

drunkmonkey

Leo down, lol

How do these dos attacks work, is it simply any army of people hopping off f5 ?

ciano1

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Leo down, lol

How do these dos attacks work, is it simply any army of people hopping off f5 ?

It's the Irish government so it would go something like this...

Username: Admin
Password: Admin

vicM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Leo down, lol

How do these dos attacks work, is it simply any army of people hopping off f5 ?

For DDoS attacks they use numerous "bots"they have control over to strenuously and simultaneously try to access the domain they want to take down..could be using your or my computer for all we l know

drunkmonkey

Have they hacked Enda Kenny.com or is that site normally like that.

nesf

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Leo down, lol

How do these dos attacks work, is it simply any army of people hopping off f5 ?

No it's usually programs of some kind doing all the work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDOS#Distributed_attack

People use botnets for this, or in Anonymous' case people volunteer their systems for use in the attack.

johnnykilo

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Have they hacked Enda Kenny.com or is that site normally like that.

I think they've hacked it. Nice one!

Dannyboy83

Well deserved

Can't wait to hear our government try to weasel their way out of this!

johnnykilo

johnnykilo wrote: »

I think they've hacked it. Nice one!

Or perhaps not actually, the cached version from 5 days ago looks the same so I'm guessing someone bought endakenny.com a while ago and just put all the anti-Enda stuff up on it. Obviously Enda doesn't care

Mech1

http://www.justice.ie/
working here
Firefox

Mech1

http://www.leovaradkar.ie/
Working here

Richard tea

Mech1 wrote: »

http://www.justice.ie/
working here
Firefox

Firefox here and not working for me. Im getting a ''about blank'' message

Mech1

maybe its us lot testing thats causing the dos!

titan18

Mech1 wrote: »

maybe its us lot testing thats causing the dos!

Aye,http://www.justice.ie/ got 3 visitors and crashed probably