Hackers Fail to Deliver on Promise: NY Stock Exchange Website Still Live
- Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:35pm by
Liz Klimas
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It looks as if the hacker collective Anonymous didn’t follow through on its threat last week stating that it would remove NYSE.com — the New York Stock Exchange website — from the Internet on October 10. But that was not without several conflicting messages from videos over the weekend.
After a few minutes of glitch, as evidenced from the screen shot below, the site is live and fully functioning. A little after 3:30, the graphics on the home page of the site went down, although text remained. This very well could have been due to traffic of everyone else getting onto the site to see if Anonymous had come through on its word or not.
This screenshot, in general, depicts what NYSE.com should look like.
This screenshot is what NYSE.com's home page looked like for a few moments after 3:30 p.m. today.
The Blaze reported Anonymous’ threat last week when it addressed a YouTube video to the attention of the media stating that the government was enforcing laws that punished the “99 percent while allowing the 1 percent to escape justice unharmed, for their crimes against the people.” Anonymous went on to say that the government had not enforced legal restraints against Wall Street abuse and it was ignoring Wall Street greed:
This is why we choose to declare our war against the New York Stock Exchange. We can no longer stay silent as the population is being exploited and forced to make sacrifices in the name of profit.
We will show the world that we are true to our word. On Oct. 10, NYSE shall be erased from the Internet. On Oct. 10, expect a day that will never, ever be forgotten.
Under both the YouTube videos — one to the media and one directed to the public — Anonymous included text stating that the majority of the collective did not want this to happen but factions were still going to carry it out.
With all these Anonymous factions, the New York Observer poses the question “is Anonymous breaking up?” The Observer reported that the same YouTube account, AnonMessage, that posted the initial two videos announcing the attack, posted a retraction over the weekend apologizing stating the messages didn’t come from the more official AnonOps. Watch the apology video, in which AnonMessage states it was mistaken and apologizes to those who were “misinformed or dismayed by any of the two videos”:
Another video over the weekend confirmed the different factions with potentially different goals within the hacker collective. AnonMessage states in this video that factions of Anonymous were in fact going to try and removed NYSE.com from the Internet:
At the time of this posting, these factions had not succeeded. The Observer sums up the the back-and-forth, conflicting videos: “this is what it looks like when a decentralized collective of Internet hackers start having organizational issues. Anonymous doesn’t really work as a faceless entity to be feared if its members start airing their group’s problems with the world.”
This article was updated for clarity.
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Rowgue
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:08amThat‘s because these idiots aren’t really hackers.
It’s just a group of dorks that want to stick it to the man. They just use stupid little tricks like DOS attacks that are easily thwarted by competent system design and control of access. None of these losers could hack their way out of a paper bag with a machete.
Report Post »amtsoundsmith
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:34pmWhat a bunch of failures….just like Guy Fawkes. Why would you use the image of a failure as the emblem of your group? You’re just setting yourselves up to fail.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:35amScreen shot looks like there were indeed “ddos” attacks. “Distributed Denial of Service” attacks are a bunch of computers, all hitting the target with requests at the same time. Any computer system can only handle so many requests at a time. Like when Glenn recommends a website on GBTV or on the radio. The smaller sites get overloaded and crash. Larger sites do better, but, with enough traffic, they will hit a bottleneck as well. As you can imagine, the NYSE has massive server farms and has much much more capacity to handle requests. However, hackers do not just use their computers. They send out viruses that use OUR computers to do the dirty work for them, or, they hack into larger systems and use those systems to simultaneously send out LOTS of requests. Imagine: they take over a hotel chain’s servers, and use the hotel chain’s servers to attack NYSE. The hotel‘s servers have a lot more speed and bandwidth than the hackers’ PCs, so they can attack NYSE faster and more heavily than if the hacker used its own PC.
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:45amDaddy used to tell us.. they are unarmed and in enemy territory.. it’s just something for them to do until the weather gets too cold to sleep outside on the concrete. Someone has named them the pee party. I like it.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:00amI like it, too… but, how about Pea (brained) Party… and it still sounds alike :)
Report Post »meeester
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:46pmI wonder how many years of war the Looney Left could wage before any of us noticed.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:40pmThey may have been doing what boxers call a head fake. That is to say, they plan to do it, just not on the announced date.
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 11:38pmthat’s what I was thinking…. Why would you tell anyone if you were going to do it. Besides taking down he webpage is meaningless. You want to cause true havoc, manipulate the actual exchange’s computers, or take down the Grid, or the entire internet… Now we are talking some real revolution.
Report Post »JasonFreelance13
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:27pmEpic Fail!
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:10pmIt‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »metal man
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:54pmAnonymous is acting like congress. They couldn’t come to a resolution either. Maybe they need to form a super counsel.
Report Post »bedspirit
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:28pmNobody participated because it was a sting. Warnings were sent out all over the internet.
Report Post »Impenitent
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:38pmas if the internet was the only way to trade stocks…
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:38pml a m e
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:30pmYour bullsj1t is getting old, amigo.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:21pmThat is the leftist’s problem, they overestimate everything, savings on socialized medicine, ROI for the six figures they borrowed for an education, there support from the American people and oh yeah as usual their intelligence.
Report Post »MaxineH20Sux
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:37pmWAIT! He MUST be union! He doesn’t work on holidays… Columbus Day is a holiday!
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:23pmIs it down yet? is it down yet? is it down yet? is it down yet? how about now? is it down yet? is it down yet? oh wait..is it down yet? is it down yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:19pmI am so sick of these clowns living in mommy and daddy’s basement! Grow up!
Report Post »Ferrarello
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:08pmFor everything real on the internet…there are at least 5 things to counter it via dis information artists.
Report Post »CashCache
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:02pmShall we play a game? Global Thermonuclear War?
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:52pm“Hackers Fail to Deliver on Promise”. Sounds like The Blaze is dissapointed.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:29pmI‘m disappointed you can’t spell.
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:45pmI am neither surprised nor disappointed he cannot spell. It comes with the territory of being a braindead Liberal chatterbox.
…Oh, wait, snap. I got a little redundant there. Being Liberal immediately implies being braindead. My apologies.
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:51pmOh shucks. FYI, a corporation made your underwear! It is NOT corporations, it is the plutocrats of this planet. Anyhow, any revolution requires revolutionary minds, sorry. Next up?
Report Post »The BRAIN
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:47pm…and revolutionary minds require MINDS. They’re in a battle of wits wholly unarmed.
Report Post »Chr1st14n
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:46pmthis should turn out interesting as more and more attempts are made though
Report Post »eden40000
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:45pmSyntax error…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:55pm“Syntax error…”
Report Post »“Syntax error?”
“Oh dear, I thought they meant a synaptic error…”
(Picks up phone)
“Dr Frankenstein, about that brain I sent you…”