Anonymous threat to bring down the Internet fizzles out
Despite popular reports, the hacktivist group Anonymous is not hacking, killing, or taking down the Internet today via DDoS attacks on root DNS servers. The Internet will remain completely functional.
Although this has already been debunked last month when the news first broke, many are still asking whether Anonymous will launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Internet today by taking down root Domain Name Servers (DNS) servers, using a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool. The people want to know if “Operation Global Blackout” is going to stop them from running their business, checking their e-mail, playing video games, browsing porn, and so on. As many have already said before, if something does happen today (and it’s extremely unlikely that it will), the hacktivist group Anonymous will not be to blame.
