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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...

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DDoS Not the Most Political Way to Protest

Monday, June 15, 2009 at 5:35pm by Pedro Bueno
Pedro Bueno

So, Iran had elections this weekend. Some people don’t agree with the results. As a consequence, some people are organizing DDoS attacks against Iranian websites, more precisely:

http://www.leader.ir/

http://president.ir/

http://www.irib.ir/

http://www.iribnews.ir/

and some specific URLs on those domains.

No guys, that’s not the right path and, as it is a malicious activity, we are detecting the tools being distributed to create this DDoS. In my opinion, I doubt that it would cause much damage, since this looks more like a media thing than a huge DDoS attack. The applications use old techniques and unless there are lots of “followers,” I don’t think that it will cause much impact. We will continue to monitor the situation.

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  • Camy Gator June 17, 2009 1:31PM

    Mr. Bueno,

    With all due respect, you don’t understand what is going on in Iran. Thirty years or running a country with an iron fist and religious dogma that has deprived people of their basic rights leads to a position that fighting for democracy justifies any tool.
    Better using DDOS attacks and Civil Disobedience than picking up arms.

    Before passing judgments from the comfort of a country that enjoys all freedoms, at least go and take a look at the pictures and see what is going on and try to get a feel for the situation.

    My suggestion is that you to stick to internet security and not politics.

    Sincerly,
    CG

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