Teen suspected of TeaMp0isoN affiliation

A teenager was questioned by police on wednesday for possible connections with the hacktivist group TeaMp0isoN.

The police investigations involved seizing the teens equipment for ongoing computer forensic analysis.

All that is known at this point is that the teen is 17 years of age and lives in newcastle. The fact that the teen is 17 matches the claim TeaMp0isoN made when they hacked Lulzsec's website.

Piratebay speaks out against DDOS retaliations

Piratebay has spoken out against anonymous members who have been performing DDOS retaliation attacks against communication corporations who have performed ISP blocks on the pirate bay.
Piratebay mention the disapproval of the DDOS attacks and stated that DDOS'ing is a form of internet censorship too.
Earlier this week virgin media and talk talk both performed ISP blocks against the piratebay, both of those corporations received heavy DDOS attacks which brought down Virgin's servers down for approximately 1 hour and talk talk for 'a few hours'.
Now more recently, orange have started an ISP block against the piratebay, there has not been any retaliation towards orange so far (possibly due to pirate bay's statement?).

IRC - Internet Relay Chat

Internet relay chat is a private chat room which is supported by the devices connecting to it. All information shared across this chat room can only be seen by the devices connected to the internet relay chat.

Having this kind of chat room ensures almost complete anonymity so longs as the users connected are trustworthy.

Internet relay chats have to facilities to share files, which can be useful for some users.

IRC channels tend to have encrypted signals which enables security for those who contact each other.

ISP Blocking

ISP stands for internet service provider. This is where the actual service provider blocks the access to certain sites which have been deemed unsuitable for its customers (usually by court ruling).

Antisec (Anti-security)

Antisec was a group comprising of Lulsec, a selection of anonymous hackers and many more hacktivist groups including: el8, pHC, dikline, geist and ZF0.
This group was against the full disclosure of information and thus began attacks on security firms and corporations who they believed used full disclosure to scare people into purchasing their products.

DDOS

To start with this topic I must first explain the concept of DOS.

DOS stands for denial of service, this is done by having a computer connect to a website repetatively to use up the hosting servers resources. It does this since connecting with that server is part of a 3 way 'handshake'. First the device must request connection to the server, the server must then send a signal to the device telling it that it has opened availability to connection, then the device connects to the server. With a DOS attack, the device will only complete the first 2 stages of this handshake. This leaves the server staying open for the device to connect to it. If this happens from the same device many times, the server will then use all of its resources trying to keep the connections open for this device.
Nowadays the server would have protocols which would allow it to drop these connections after a set amount of time, thus freeing up resources. This leads on to DDOS attacks.

DDOS stands for distributed denial of service. This involves many devices performing a DOS attack on the same target. Since modern servers have the protocols which allow them to drop the connection after a set amlunt of time, the DDOS must have enough devices for the attack to use up the servers resources within that time limit.
Therefore hackers could employ a botnet in order to help them with their DDOS efforts.

Botnet

A botnet is a group of computers which are under a hackers control. These can through devices which they themself own or it can be through zombie devices.

A zombie device is a device which the hacker has installed a backdoor. The hacker can use this backdoor to control the resources which belong to that device.

A botnet is most commonly used for the brute force hacking techniques, it gives the hacker the raw power of which they can attack targets. A common use for a botnet is for the hacker to be able to DDOS a target for a much more effective outcome.

Botnets can range in size from a few devices to hundreds of thousands of devices.