Everyone ’s favorite hacktivists , Anonymous took down the New York Stock Exchange ’s site today for two terrifyingly boring minutes .
The group used a DDoS plan of attack to briefly pick apart the situation offline as a show of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protestors . Trading was n’t affected while the land site was down . The radical posted aYouTube videoin former October warn that the attack would take place . This warning in all likelihood gave the NYSE sentence to bolster up their site ’s defenses against the Anonymous threat .
The onrush was n’t democratic amongst the majority of Anonymous members . Many thought that the onslaught would create bad press for the Occupy Wall Street drift . They also might have realized that the takedown was endure to be sort of sad . [ Chicago Tribune ]
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