Racist and homophobic websites are now a vigilante hacker’s target. Amped Attacks is taking these websites down with the use of distributed denial of service attacks, otherwise known as DDoS.
Usually, such attacks are launched by hackers who are against certain websites that offer a list of services that many Internet visitors depend on, such as banking and gaming networks. Interestingly, Amped Attacks has decided to set its sights on websites that are just generally oppressive, as Tech Times points out.
The attack progresses by overloading the server with requests. Eventually, the server will reach a point where its network resource becomes unavailable, which will shut down the website. For the full article click here
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