[Cialug] Operation Payback aborts attack against Amazon.com

[Todd Walton]

Operation Payback aborts attack against Amazon.com

The scheduled attack against Amazon.com has been called off after it
failed to make any impact on the site's performance.

The Anonymous group decided the "hive" of computers in its botnet was
not big enough to take on the might of Amazon, who are evidently quite
good at providing highly scalable web hosting services, not just on
their own website, but also on their EC2 service. Their European
datacenter, which formerly hosted the WikiLeaks website, accounts for
more than a third of all internet-facing web servers in Ireland.

Operation Payback still intend to carry out a distributed denial of
service attack against Amazon.com, but appear unable do so without
more volunteers taking part in their botnet. The botnet currently
contains around 2000 computers, each of which can receive attack
commands from the group's IRC network.

more:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/09/operation-payback-aborts-attack-against-amazon-com.html