Attack on Prime Minister Rudd and Scientology sentencing

Attack on Prime Minister Rudd and Scientology sentencing

Nick Xenophon; Speculation into Senator Nick Xenophon’s motives in launching an attack against The Church of Scientology backed by several traitors expunged by the Church fuels speculation that the Anonymous hate group that attacked Prime Minister Rudd’s website and The Church of Scientology websites could have infiltrated the informants now in Nick Xenophon’s sphere of influence unbeknown to him.

Scientology is a worldwide religious movement with more than 8,000 Churches, Missions and groups in 165 countries. The Church and its members dedicate their time and resources to numerous humanitarian programs that Scientology has become known for around the world, including combating drug abuse, immorality, illiteracy and human rights violations.

NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 19 / PRNewswire/ — The United States District Court in Newark, N.J., sentenced a New Jersey man today to one year and one day in federal prison on a felony conviction for his part in a cyber attack against Church of Scientology websites in January 2008 [Case No. CR 09-87-01]. He carried out the attack with others calling themselves “Anonymous,” a hate group targeting Scientology and others individuals and organizations
[ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/palin-hacker-gr/ ],
including the website of Prime Minister Rudd of Australia
[ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/anonymous-hacks-australia/ ]

Attack on Prime Minister Rudd and Scientology sentencing

Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey, who in May pleaded guilty to one count of computer hacking, was sentenced for his role in the distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Scientology websites. A DDOS attack occurs when a large amount of malicious Internet traffic is directed at websites, overloading their capacity and making them unavailable to legitimate users.

Church of Scientology websites were made unavailable to valid users for 24 hours, with the attacks continuing for 12 days, requiring the Church to hire a computer security company to protect against the attacks and to reroute traffic. Due to the severity of the crime, Judge Joseph Greenaway in U.S. District Court in Newark sentenced Guzner to the 366-day prison term, plus two years probation following his prison term, and ordered Guzner to pay $37,500 restitution to the Church
[ http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/11/verona_teen_sentenced_to_a_yea.html ]
[ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZx5MaXVm7cYrXW5R7q1i1UZNuIgD9C25LHO0 ]

Attack on Prime Minister Rudd and Scientology sentencing

On October 31, another Anonymous follower, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, 20, was indicted by a Grand Jury at the US District Court for Central California for the same attack on Scientology websites, for conspiracy and “transmission of a code, information, program, or command to a protected computer.” The indictment states that he obtained a computer program from an Anonymous website and executed a DDOS attack from his dormitory at Iowa State University against the Church computers in Los Angeles. He is awaiting sentencing. [ United States of America vs. Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, Indictment of Grand Jury at US District Court for Central California, filed 28 October 2009, Case No. CR 09 01149. ]

Anonymous is an underground hate group that, in addition to the cyber attack, targeted Churches of Scientology and members with death threats, bomb threats and fake anthrax mail. In addition to Scientology Churches and the Prime Minister Rudd of Australia [ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/anonymous-hacks-australia/ ], Anonymous has also targeted The Epilepsy Foundation, hip-hop music websites and others.
[ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/palin-hacker-gr/ ]
[ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1590117/20080627/id_0.jhtml ]

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