Hackers threaten to shut-down Facebook

[McLovin]

Members of an internet group known as Anonymous have threatened to shut down Facebook on November 5.

The Anonymous group is a loosely organised alliance of hackers from around the world.

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[AyeAyeCaptain]

They won't do much damage even if they do try, as I'm sure Facebook have the structure in place to handly the biggest DDOS attacks going... assuming that's how they're gonna hurt them. As cannot see them all of a sudden gaining access to anything more serious...??

 

[McLovin]

They won't do much damage even if they do try, as I'm sure Facebook have the structure in place to handly the biggest DDOS attacks going... assuming that's how they're gonna hurt them. As cannot see them all of a sudden gaining access to anything more serious...??

True, but I bet if there is will there is a way.

 

[iPanik]

They would probably gain more enemies than friends by taking down facebook.

I do have a facebook account, i actually disabled it because i didn't use it anyway, but then spotify came along and because they got married to facebook they made me reactivate my account. :dodgy:

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

Good and bad news at the same time.

 

[Ink]

Lets hope there is no major data leak. :|

 

[Jack]

They won't do much damage even if they do try, as I'm sure Facebook have the structure in place to handly the biggest DDOS attacks going... assuming that's how they're gonna hurt them. As cannot see them all of a sudden gaining access to anything more serious...??

Couldn't agree more.....Facebook is powered by a serious infrastructure so even thinking that Annon could ever DDoS them is pure madness.....
When I see this type of messages I can't stop myself from laughing...Now I'm waiting a message from Annon saying that it was all a mistake.

A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility.


Recently Facebook has announced that will open-source its data centers and servers...

 

[imsoadude]

I agree i dont think they would ever be able to pull it off, facebook is to big for that to happen

 

[McLovin]

True what FaceBook has, it will be hard to take them down.

 

[imsoadude]

Even if they were taken down, the amount of their on site people would probably have it up in a matter of minutes

 

[McLovin]

Even if they were taken down, the amount of their on site people would probably have it up in a matter of minutes

Very true.

 

[K__M]

I don't think they will be able to 'shut it down'.

BUT I do believe they could do some damage.. like to where pages take forever to load etc... Nothing to serious or long.. IMO

 

[illumination]

I just do not see it happening! Judging by the strain that is already on Facebook servers, from so many people that have accounts, it would take a massive DDOS attack to even phase them a little..

 

[imsoadude]

Yea, maybe they would steal some information that would probably be the worst outcome though

 

[Deleted member 178]

/ironic : yeah yeah hack my FB account , you will get lot of valuable datas like what color is my underwear today

 

[McLovin]

/ironic : yeah yeah hack my FB account , you will get lot of valuable datas like what color is my underwear today

:goodpost: :lol: We can't have them knowing that

 

[win7holic]

who wants to hack my FB too?
first, I used "instead of" English language and using acronyms for the info and others. Second, I protect my FB (privacy settings)

Good for umbra
hehe.

 

[moonshine]

Got my new Facebook account locked down too so hackers will probably obtain from little to no information about me.

 

[Dejan]

Oh please, probably just some kids who claim they're from Anonymous and in their crave for attention, decided to put out a false threat about "shutting down" FB.
Maybe they'll try a DDoS, but will probably end in utter failure and them being tracked down.

 

[moonshine]

Thumbs up to that Dejan. Probably some kids that likes security but doesn't know what they're talking about.