Dutch Hacker Grouping Offers To 'Re-Educate' Teen Hacktivists !

A Dutch hackers collective named Revspace wants to "re-educate" Dutch teens suspected of cyberattacks against Mastercard together with Visa together with websites of the Dutch National Prosecutors Office – together with plow them into "ethical hackers".

Last week, Dutch constabulary arrested a 16-year-old man child for participating inwards spider web attacks against MasterCard together with Visa equally share of a grassroots force to back upwards WikiLeaks.

On Saturday, unopen to other teenager was arrested inwards the municipality of Hoogezand-Sappemeer, who admitted he had flooded the website of the Dutch prosecutor. The 19-year-old was active nether the cite Awinee together with reportedly urged other meshing users to participate inwards the attack. The teen was released today. Martijn Gonlag, pictured here, says he solely wanted to assay out software, together with wasn’t supporting Wikileaks.

Both arrests were fairly slowly for the cops to make, equally both teenagers used LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), a tool that doesn't offering whatever safety services, such equally anonymisation. The IP address of the assailant tin mail away move seen inwards all packets sent during the attacks, equally the Dutch University of Twente reported (PDF). The university's written report explained that this is the illustration for both electrical flow versions of the LOIC tool, including the web-based tool that runs inwards whatever Javascript-supported browser.
The academy warns that hacktivists may non move aware that international information retentiveness laws bespeak that commercial Internet providers shop information regarding Internet usage for at to the lowest degree 6 months. This agency that hacktivists tin mail away even together with thus move easily traced afterwards the attacks are over.
The hackerspace Revelation Space inwards The Hague late called for a coming together on ethical hacking. Disrupting websites amongst DDoS attacks does non align amongst the ethics of the hacker community, says founder Koen Martens. "It's similar slapping somebody inwards the confront when y'all run out of arguments to bear witness somebody wrong."
Anyone tin mail away download together with firstly a estimator programme together with expire share of a coordinated online crime, Martens says. There is no inventiveness involved: DDoS attackers to a greater extent than oftentimes than non utilization existing tools without realising how these function.
The 16-year-old hacker from the Hague was a regular inwards the online chat room for the hackerspace. Martens believes the teenager should non move excluded from the community. "They should move shown a ameliorate way to accomplish goals." ®

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