A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks (csoonline.com) 33
Security firm Forcepoint has discovered a DDoS competition which requires participants install a DDoS software which contains a backdoor. An anonymous reader quotes CSO:
A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and prizes for attempting to shut down political websites... Users that participate will be given a tool known as Balyoz, the Turkish word for Sledgehammer, that can be used to launch DDoS attacks against a select number of websites... The attack tool involved is designed to only harass 24 political sites related to the Kurds, the German Christian Democratic Party -- which is led by Angela Merkel -- and the Armenian Genocide, and others... Forcepoint noticed that the DDoS attack tool given to the participants also contains a backdoor that will secretly install a Trojan on the computer.
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A backdoor is installed
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Zoiks! I've seen Midnight Express.
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The Christian Democratic Union is the right wing party in Germany, and Merkel has been the poster-pimp for allowing thousands of Muslim refugees from Syria to come in and rape German citizens. If the Social Democrats were smart, they'd have seized the initiative and transformed themselves into the anti-Muslim party of Germany, even while retaining other left wing positions
End result is neo-Nazi parties getting elected b'cos nobody can raise legitimate objections to Muslims being allowed indiscriminately
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Or to provide any citation(s).
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First, a warning about your source:
It's "iffy." [harvard.edu]
Then, from that iffy source there's this:
German feminist Alice Schwarzer wrote a book about the Cologne incidents, Der Schock - die Silvesternacht von Köln (The shock - New Year's Eve of Cologne). In it, she characterized the perpetrators as "not any Muslims.
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Scepticism that this is $random_hacker and not the Turkish government, maybe?
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Hello [oxforddictionaries.com].
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Bayoz (Score:2)
Balyoz - the name of the fail coup operation by Ergenekon guys
This simplifies things (Score:2)
We just have to follow the lead of the guy posting the contest rules, e.g.
1. Contest is open to people age 18 or older.
2. You must be a resident of Turkey.
3. etc.
Find out where it leads; then we'll nab him.
Turkey and Kurds (Score:2)
One actually is nothing like the other.
While Kurds may be Muslims, they happen to be less fanatical for one plain reason: they have always been exposed to the Arab supremacist side of Islam. One of the salient things about Islam is that it's about Arab supremacy, even within the ummah (world's Muslim population). So when Arabs and non Arab Muslims come into contact, that becomes a rivalry that spills out into the open. It's the case in Kurdistan, and it's the case in Sudan: the entire persecution of Bl
Sounds State sponsored (Score:2)
Sounds state sponsored to me. Anti Kurd, anti Armenian genocide claims and pro "don't make fun of Erdogan".
Of course I don't have proof but that's pretty much Erdogan's platform, particularly in regards to issues the West cares about.