Blog Posts Tagged with "Westboro Baptist Church"
Meet a Cyber Special Ops Warrior: th3j35t3r
June 05, 2012 Added by:Laura Walker
Although the Jester is often described as a cyber vigilante, his operations tend to steer shy of retributive justice and drive more toward disruption of enemy operations. His targets are researched, specific, and his mission is consistent. There is also the psychological component to PWNing the enemy...
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Hacktivist "The Jester" Draws Crowd at Hacker Halted
October 31, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The Jester had alluded to the fact that he may have actually been physically present at the conference by apparently hiding an encrypted message in one of the conference rooms, tweeting "left a little something under the projector in Alhambra SCADA room. Tweet me a photo of what's there"...
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Hacktivist Maintains Attack on Westboro Baptist Church
March 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The DoS attacks against WBC sites have now exceeded one month in duration. The Jester uses a DoS tool called XerXeS to perform an application level attack which can be performed by a single low-spec machine with relatively few packets, whereas traditional TCP-based attacks require multiple machines...
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Assault on Westboro Baptist Church Website Continues
March 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The sustained DoS attack, which began on February 21st, represents a record for the Hactivist who is best known for repeated DoS attacks on militant Jihadi websites, as well as an attack on the WikiLeaks website in late November that forced the organization to shuffle Internet hosting providers...
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Hacktivists Deface Westboro Baptist Church Website
February 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
That both The Jester and Anonymous attacked Westboro Baptist Church websites this week represents a very strange convergence, and the prospect that two highly active hacktivist camps might find more common ground is tantalizing to say the least...
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Hacktivism Makes for Strange Bedfellows
February 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Anonymous members and The Jester have publicly traded jabs for several months, each threatening to undermine and expose the other's operations. Strangely enough, they may have had a meeting of the minds when it comes to their mutual disdain for the Westboro Baptist Church...
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