Planned Parenthood shuts down website after second hack

[n2doc]

Source: the Hill

Planned Parenthood shut down its website Wednesday after it was hit by a second cyberattack within one week.

Officials confirmed Wednesday evening that the group was hit by a “denial of service attack” — a tactic that sends massive amounts of traffic to a site at one time to shut it down.

“We deeply regret that in order to more fully protect our websites from these extremist attacks, our full online content will be temporarily unavailable to people looking for good, accurate health information,” Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood’s political arm, said in a statement.

She added that the group is “taking every measure possible to mitigate any criminal efforts to undermine our mission and services.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/249728-planned-parenthood-shuts-down-website-after-second-hack

[Sunlei]

1. I hope their internet provider can trace who called to DOS-ed website and file charges.

[snooper2]

2. file charges against someone with IP address that originate in Kazakhstan LOL

good luck with that

[Sunlei]

3. Is that were the internet attack came from?

[snooper2]

4. I have no clue LOL...most actually originate from India

If you want a tutorial on DOS and DDOS attacks here is some light reading for you


https://www.imperva.com/docs/DS_Incapsula_The_Top_10_DDoS_Attack_Trends_ebook.pdf

[Sunlei]

7. no thanks, its probably just the anti abortion crowd 'doing their part' auto refreshing the website

fast as they can.

PP should put in a popup script where if anyone auto refreshes their website a hundred times in a row, a thousand pop-up windows open and the entire website is copy/downloaded to their computer as wallpaper.

[n2doc]

6. We spend tens, hundreds, of billions on 'homeland security'

Seems like the folks at NSA could figure out the source of these attacks pretty quickly, if they so wanted.

[riversedge]

5. Diane Feinstein defending PLanned Parenthood on Senate floor yesterday said that staff

had received threats after leaks of personnel information.

[Sunlei]

8. If that was the Sony website our Gov. would step in.