Why Anonymous is gaining fame in the cyber world? – Part 2

Yet they were winning—easily—against targets as noteworthy as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House and Citigroup.

The victories underscore what is perhaps both the main point of the global Anonymous movement and the secret of its success—that the people in charge, whether they be in Alexandria, Egypt or Alexandria, Virginia—are too corrupt, too complacent and too careless too be trusted. Almost nothing makes that point as effectively as Internet security: Officials have known that the networks were vulnerable for well over a decade and have chosen to do little about it.

Anonymous lays siege to websites using a method called “distributed denial of service” or DDoS. There is nothing new about a DDoS attack, which basically floods a computer that is connected to the Internet with messages, such as connection requests, until it crashes.

“Internet security is like life insurance,” said Carlos Morales, vice president of sales engineering for Arbor Networks, which sells DDoS protection to network operators and Internet service providers around the world. “A lot of people don’t think they need life insurance until they have a major event like a heart attack.”

Robert Ayoub, an analyst with Frost and Sullivan describes a pass-the-buck mentality. “Traditionally, companies have seen DDoS as an issue for service providers or the government,” he said, stating that to differentiate between the time a website is attacked from piece time is no stroll in the park.

However, there are many protection packages available to fend these attacks. However, they not only cost more but the surveillance is even deeper and costs employee privacy.

Basic cloud protection alone starts at about $5,000 a month. But that cost can increase exponentially depending on the volume of traffic and the size of the site that’s under attack.

Experts will tell you that scrimping isn’t really an option. In addition to attacks by Anonymous,  companies, and financial institutions in particular, are coping with DDoS attacks by criminal gangs who use ever more sophisticated tools.

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