Apparently the hacker group "Anonymous" will be taking down facebook on 5 November.
Thought I'd post what my friend, Danie, has to say on the subject:
Anonymous uses distributed denial of service attacks as their main weapon. Also its gives a measure of control so that if a target is selected to be effective it would need to be supported by the greater majority of Anonymous. As there in lies the strength and appeal of the group. Everyone has a voice and everyone has a free will to either take part in an attack or not. There is no one person acting as the leader of this group as its a hive mind. Thus its impossible to fight and almost impossible to stop even harder to prosecute all of them.
Given the average age of Anonymous i would say that the facebook attack will not hold big appeal to the majority. Thus rendering the DDos attack ineffective. Yes Anonymous does have splinter groups that does not use these kinds of attacks as they are the "none script kiddie" hackers that does the intrusions into the target network infrastructures. But the notification of the attack came from Anonymous and not one of these splinter groups like Lulsec. If it did facebook might have some trouble.
PS they do refer to "Antisec" in one of their statements. As that is the elite group of Anonymous. If they get involved it might be game over for facebook on that day.
PPS.... Anonymous always gives notice about their attacks in advance as transparency gives the "target" time to appeal to Anonymous itself why this attack should not happen. Even other Anon's can plea a case for the target.
PPPS... FB is running a massive number of servers all over the World currently. To shut FB down you will need to target not just a single server. But multiple servers in multiple countries in multiple time zones. This will require 24 hour attacks synchronized with peak traffic times of FB. Just take an example. South Africa has its own FB cache server locally were all feeds are loaded onto locally then there are multiple main servers hosted in the USA in different states and Data centers also running on ipv6 that makes DoS attacks very hard to pull off. Its a massive task with their normal DDoS attack.
Food for thought. Let's see if anything happens on 5 Nov. I'm not holding my breath.
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