Introduction to Cyber-Warfare - Proiect SEMPER FIDELIS

262 APPENDIX II. CHAPTER 6: ANONYMOUS TIMELINEApproximatedateApril 2, 2011andthroughoutAprilTarget, hacktivity, and modus operandi(where available)Sony’s PlayStation Network and various SonyWeb sites experience repeated DDoS attacks anddowntime 101Motivation as stated (where available)In protest of Sony banning (and later suing)PS-user GeoHot for modifying hisequipment and posting this know-howfrom the PlayStation Network 102April 20, 2011 Formula One Web site (Formula1.com) and F1-racers.net experience downtime due to DDoSattack 103#OpBahrain criticizes the organizers ofFormula 1’s Grnad Prix to ignore (and thussupport) the human rights abuses of the AlKhalifa government; Anonymous demandsrelease of political prisoners 104May 1, 2011 #OpIran launched 105 #OpIran in protest of a repressive Iraniangovernment 106May 2, 2011May 3, 2011#OpBlitzkrieg launched, 107 sets up informationWeb site, nazi-leaks.net (defunct), to revealinterconnections between various whitesupremacist organizations in many westerncountries, a year later mainly DDoS attacks againstwhite supremacist and affiliates Web sites remainSeveral Web sites pertaining to white supremacist #OpBlitzkrieg 110organizations and affiliated Web host experiencedowntime 109#OpBlitzkrieg, in opposition to whitesupremacist-ideology 108May 6, 2011 #OpIndia launched 111 #OpIndia, in protest of the Indiangovernment blocking The Pirate Bay,vimeo, DailyMotion Web sites, 112 later thegovernment’s general Internet censorshipand corruption is added to the agenda 113May 18, 2011June 2011June 9, 2011June 11, 2011Several Web sites affiliated with the Indian #OpIndia 115government (Supreme Court, two political parties(BJP, INC), Indian telecommunicationsdepartment, Indian electronics, and IT ministry),the Web site of antipiracy company Copyrightlabsexperience downtime due to DDoS attacks 114#OpTurkey is launched to protest against#OpTurkey 117controversial plans by the Turkish government tofurther Internet filtering 116Real-world protest criticizing Indian law to enable #OpIndia, OpRTIEngaged 119the government to rightfully censor the Internet inNew Delhi, Anonymous is urging Indians to fileRight to Information (RTI) applications to seekinsights into the governments filtering ofinformation disseminated through the Internet 11810,365 e-mails are gleaned from servers of theIranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs andsubsequently published on MediaFire; theassociated Web site experiences downtime 120 #OpIran 121 Continued