Dutch government sites offline

The Netherlands have trouble with some DDOS attackson their government servers.
The websites like for example regering.nl are due to distributed denail of service attacks difficult ro reach. Also some corporate sites (operaters) are down due to this large scale attack.

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OXIFE October 5, 2004
The sites regering.nl - kabinet.nl and probably some others experienced the effect of a DDOS. This is what FOK.nl says. What FOK.nl is also saying is that the "hackersgroup" 0x1fe launched the attack.

Ofcourse we have nothing to do with the attack, but we think that the people launching this attack are a few people from our IRC channel, they think they are a part of 0x1fe and used our name.

Though we like the free promotion..

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It's almost for sure that people from the IRC channel used botnets with about 180.000 computers, a lot from university labs, meaning high speed internet connections.
The reason for this attack is disagreement with the policy. The attack is planned to be continued until saterday.

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The reason for this attack is disagreement with the policy.

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Errr... what policy?

errr... general policies of their governement. The line of policy, not a certain thing 'an sich'.

There have been some major (regular) demonstrations against the policys of our government (mostly about the breakdown of our social security stuff, early retirement, but there are a lot of reasons).
These DDoS attacks started on monday (iirc).
According to the_JinX some people on geenstijl.nl posted information about one of these attackers and as a result got DDoSed also (they are back online though).
I have seen some information about the identify of one of the attackers circulating on the net, however, this information got removed again.

I think this is a very counter productive way of 'protesting' since it does not hurt the government but the people that try to keep a critical eye on the government and need the information posted on the mentioned site(s).
And imo DDoSing is lame by definition.
I hope they get caught soon but with such large botnets it will prolly be a hell of a job to track the guilty ones down.

I really feel stupid! i'm from the netherlands, i haven't heared about this!
maybe because i have been making a lot of hours at work the last couple of days, but it isn't so big that they tell it in the news (or at least i haven't heared about it).

i think i'm going to visit some dutch forums to see if i can find out more about it...

but yes, DOS-ing is LAME!
in no way it has anything to do with hacking, it's simple skiddie stuff ;)

(secretely hoping they read this and let me know why they are so childish :p).

I'm from Belgium and heared on some sites that there was something going on. People using botnets in DdoS attacks against the dutch governement sites. the 0x1fe crew was linked to it but claimed to have nothing to do with it, although their IRC channel is named too.

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the 0x1fe crew was linked to it but claimed to have nothing to do with it, although their IRC channel is named too.

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Unless there is empirical proof, it's all heresay. There's nothing that is concrete to identify them to this if all the evidence is "linking" and naming an irc channel. Tis all assumption.

it was on the radio, and some news sites (hey lepricaun, dont you read nu.nl at work? ;) ) but it happend a couple of days after there was a, by dutch standards, big protest against the government.

let's say who ever was responsible for this action, was true about their motivation (protest against government), shouldn't it be called hacktivism? They timed it pretty wel, and i've never heard of such an attack here. ofcourse DDOS'ing is a lame way to point out your opinion but it does get noticed by a lot of people, especially when this is allready a big media issue.

maybe nice to add to this line of news; what about the dutch prosecutor, who dumped his computer full of sensitive, work related, data because he thought all was destroyed by a virus :D

sometimes it's great to live here..

Helped out on some info
http://www.rasnerd.nl/index2.htm (dutch)

I did see some transcripts of the "kiddies" bragging about their acheivements and also controlling the bots..
A couple of friends of mine went into their irc (found after getting the strings from one of the worms)
Didn't want to incriminate myselve by going to their irc myself.. (yeah, I'm a pussy)

Don't know if they (the kiddies) got cought though..

Jinx, interesting site specialy the interview with the so called spokesman of 0x1fe.
They Ddos a site, next, an attackers identity is posted on a weblog and next a weblog Ddos war develops, resulting in complete hosting providers being offline... 190.000 boxes to play with is a nasty Ddos tool.

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(hey lepricaun, dont you read nu.nl at work? )

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don't have the time to do so :(

and also haven't been able to do some more research about this subject due to the lack of time :(

but it still is very interesting, and i wonder what the problems with the government would be, since there are so many things that s*ck!

0x1FE has been busy again. They defaced a high school website. Part of the message they left on the defaced website roughly translates roughly to: "0x1FE is not black hat anymore. 0x1FE is a security team that occupies itself with development in IT security. No damage has been done to the system during this hack, we just helped Kennisnet [foundation that hosts the website -Guus] and the webmaster of this site. We left a text file with information regarding the hack of this site, and a way to prevent it from happening again."

Could someone explain to me how defacing a website (with possibly severe consequences for the administrators of your victim website) rhymes with 'not black hat'?

Related links:
Hacked website: http://www.prismacollege.nl/ (for as long as it remains up)
Foundation that hosts the website: http://www.kennisnet.nl/
0x1FE homepage: http://www.0x1fe.org/
Planet Multimedia (Dutch newssite with more information): http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=...0890/sc=7e0804 (in Dutch)

I must say that the pricmacollege site still looks like crap althoug h I think this is the origional again ;)

Well what do you know the lame want to be l33t..

Still a bunch of lamers, whom I'll be hapy to burry in a pile of manure when ever I get a chance..

BTW that Erik de Vocht guy has been arrested.. No news on charges what so ever though...

Eric's been arrested? I just heard that the (Dutch variant of a) D.A. was preparing charges. Where did you read about the arrest?

In other news, Right-extremist websites seem to have been dDoSsed as well, and fingers have been pointed at Eric de V. again (according to geenstijl.nl (dutch link))

there you have my source, well one of the..

his arrest was on all major (dutch) news sites..
http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=433751&c=52
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/19898.phtml
etc.. (warning, both links contain unreadable foreign words (are in dutch :P))

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Het Openbaar Ministerie in Den Haag is bezig met een onderzoek dat mogelijk kan leiden tot een strafrechtelijke vervolging.

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In other words: they're still forming a case, he hasn't been arrested. It isn't even clear if they ever will.

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Originally posted here by Guus
0x1FE has been busy again. They defaced a high school website. Part of the message they left on the defaced website roughly translates roughly to: "0x1FE is not black hat anymore. 0x1FE is a security team that occupies itself with development in IT security. No damage has been done to the system during this hack, we just helped Kennisnet [foundation that hosts the website -Guus] and the webmaster of this site. We left a text file with information regarding the hack of this site, and a way to prevent it from happening again."

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Yeah, I read it too. Unfortunately (for them) they did break the law by breaking into Kennisnet servers. No matter what the "reason" it's still "Computervredebreuk" (Dutch law term for breaking into computers) and can result in a maximum of five years in jail if found guilty.

0x1FE is making an a$$ of themselves... they want to get rid of their "dark" reputation. Seems like they only succeeded in making it even "darker".

Five members of 0x1FE have been arrested this morning, according to this (dutch) weblog

Update: it turned out to be two arrests, not five.

I didn't get it confirmed. A really good source tells me it isn't true.

Yeah.. read your post: http://www.security.nl/article/9197/1
Care to elaborate on your source, or are you not at liberty to tell ??

Could it be that your source is a pimply faced ddos leprachaun ??

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Originally posted here by the_JinX
Yeah.. read your post: http://www.security.nl/article/9197/1
Care to elaborate on your source, or are you not at liberty to tell ??

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I'd have to shoot you afterwards ;)

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Could it be that your source is a pimply faced ddos leprachaun ??

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Nope. But he does know the ddos leprachaun...

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Nope. But he does know the ddos leprachaun...

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ah.. k.. thx !

That's what I thought...

Well I'd like to see some updates @ www.geenstijl.nl
Just have to wait I guess...

Getting conflicting news here. Source just confirmed it (after numerous phonecalls by him). Must be that blackout....

I guess we'll have to wait and see....

Finaly a "trusted" source..

http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=438792&c=52 (dutch)

Crappy translation attempt:

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The Hague - Police arrested two persons tuesday morning, that would be responsibly for the computer attack on the internetpages regering.nl and overheid.nl, over a month ago. A spokesman of the Public Ministry in the hague has affirmed.

As a consequence of the attack, the government websites were inaccessible for four days. The crackersgroup 0x1fe claimed responcibility. It would be their protest against the administration policy.

Local police have arrested the men in a joint action with the Corps National Police Services (KLPD). The duo is due to apear before the law-commissioner Friday. Until that time the OM will issue no communications about the identity of the suspects and the places where the arrests were performed.

DDoS-attack

The governmentpages were inaccessible through a so-called DDoS-attack (Distributed Denial or Service) with which the sites are accessed a lot of times and the systems overload. The group claimed that the attack concisted of 180,000 ill-secured computers from all over the whole world.

Also mailadressen, that end in regering.nl and kabinet.nl, were inaccessible. Sources around the investigation reported that ten other sites were attacked by the same group. Also a number of these sites complained to police.

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http://www.0x1fe.org/

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0x1FE closed

Dear visitor of 0x1FE, we are closed because Falesco (Eric) and d-deamon got busted. It's not sure if we will return, probably not. So this is actually the end of 0x1FE. We hope you enjoyed, we did :)

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So two, not five members arrested..

Hmm never noticed there were so many dutch members here, thought I was the only one.

well , the BOYS that are arrested came from Breda, one of them was 17 years old, and the other even younger. they are still in jail as we speak. it was on the news the day before yesterday ;)

HI. I know it's old post. But I believe that this belongs here to conclude the thread.

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Attackers of Dutch government Web sites sentenced

Attackers of Dutch government Web sites sentenced
By: Maarten Reijnders
WebWereld Netherlands (17 Mar 2005)

Five young men who brought down Dutch government Web sites in late 2004 were sentenced to detention and community service on Monday. The main defendant will appeal.

The District Court in The Hague, Netherlands, sentenced 18-year-old Eric de V., the prime suspect in the case, to 38 days detention and 240 hours of community service. The detention sentence equals time already served. Additionally, De V. was given a six month suspended sentence with two years of probation.

De V. told WebWereld that he plans to appeal, although he is not displeased with the punishment. "I can agree with that," he said. His gripe is the way the court came to its conviction. "No technical evidence was presented for the attacks. ... I have been convicted because of statements I made," he said.

During the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Dutch government Web sites, De V. acted as spokesman for the attackers. He was interviewed on radio and television.

Furthermore, De V. feels that his sentence is too harsh compared with the other defendants. "The other guys are just as guilty," he said.

Four other members of hacker group "0x1fe Crew" were given suspended sentences of between one and two months in prison with a two-year probationary period. The defendants also were given work orders of between 80 hours and 120 hours. Three of the five accused are minors.



The attacks downed several Dutch government Web sites, including the main government portal.

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http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/D...-4de0&s=328429