Flood of donations crashes charity website The website of the charity Help for Heroes crashed after it was deluged with thousands of donations.
"If you visit the webpage, and do not have JavaScript disabled, you will instantly, without user interaction, begin to flood a website of Anonymous's choice with unwanted traffic, helping to perpetuate a DDoS attack".
"If you visit the webpage, and do not have Javascript disabled, you will instantly, without user interaction, begin to flood a website of Anonymous's choice with unwanted traffic, helping to perpetuate a DDoS attack," it said.
That doesn't seem to have worked, and the site says that it is now under a distributed denial of service attack, where users send a flood of requests to a website to take it down.
He supposedly rented them out to spammers or people who wanted to launch denial-of-service attacks (which flood a website with traffic and make is unusable), asking as little as 20 cents per infected machine.
That doesn't necessarily mean a flood of traffic to the Tout website, by the way.
Within days, hundreds of thousands of people flooded his website to watch "How to Dance Properly" -- so many that his Internet service provider billed him several thousand dollars for the excess traffic.
Albanian websites chronicle the flood of Kosovar refugees.
Compromised machines can then be linked up to form "botnets" under external control, which are used to send spam e-mails or disable websites with a flood of bogus requests.
Finally, I am sure that when this article is translated into Arabic and posted on Egyptian websites, the usual flood of comments will ensue; how I am anti-hijab, how I want to strip Egyptian and Muslim women of their modesty, how I want Muslim women to "walk around naked like western women", and so on.
