Facebook Shutdown on Jan. 28 2012 – Courtesy Anonymous!

The hacker group Anonymous is working on shutting down Facebook in a hack attack on Jan 28 2012! Check Update below!

The underground hacker network goes on to state "An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people and the government of the United States." It mentions that this is being done because “While SOPA and PIPA may be postponed from Congress, this doesn’t guarantee that our Internet rights will be upheld."

Check the video below -

FACEBOOK ATTACK 12 AM

The video is encouraging people to download a LOIC software (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) which is an application used block certain government related sites recently.

LOIC basically sends a request overload (over http) to the targeted servers thereby crashing them eventually. It all leads to a consolidated DOS attack on the target server.

Facebook as we all know “has at least 60,000 servers, it is still possible to bring it down” states the video.

Facebook was targeted late last year by hackers who planned to bring it down on Nov 5 2011 but thankfully no attack was carried out

After braving the recent Wikipedia blackout, we are more than ready for this!
Moreover, 28th is a Saturday & most of us would be @ home rather than wasting the company bandwidth over Facebook ;-)

If you have no idea about this group, check the below video for know WHAT IS ANONYOUS?

What is anonymous?

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UPDATE: The Facebook attack call is a fake!. The Anonymous' Twitter page is updated with the information - https://twitter.com/anonops

Beware: Facebook is watching!

Whether you are an occasional Facebookie (!) or a die hard Facebook addict, you need to know that "Facebook Is Tracking You on the Web".

For the story and details refer to this Mashable Article,

For the premise refer to this Lifehacker post which also has tips to prevent it too.


Although the Lifehacker post contains discussion on FF and chrome addons for the FB issue as well as generic privacy control, the paranoid extra-cautious are suggested to refer here for a discussion on the best privacy/safety add-ons for the same (sorry FF only!)

I would still suggest using a browser cache cleaning utility for keeping the system free of storing (risk inducing) personal information. Basically containing browser related cookies and other temporary files. The best way would be using something like ccleaner.

But ccleaner is so potent in itself, that it begs another topic.

Later.

Now here is some news about Facebook and Drinking!

According to a Mashable post "The average British person is under the influence of alcohol in three-quarters of of his or her tagged Facebook photos."

Now you know why everyone looks so happy! Hit the jump for a full update!