4chan forces Aiplex and MPAA websites offline with DDoS attack
The MPAA may feel like they are a powerful organization backed by the movie industry. But online they are clearly just another website prone to attack. And attacked they were by the force…
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Amazon ceases WikiLeaks hosting
Since starting to release confidential diplomatic documents online, the WikiLeaks website has been under attack. The DDoS attacks led the site to find an alternative hosting solution which eventually...
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Amazon outage was hardware fault not WikiLeaks backlash
Even though we reported earlier this month that Amazon stopped hosting WikiLeaks. It looks like the fallout from the site’s controversial leaked documents is still happening. This time to the European...
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Spanish police arrest three suspected Anonymous hackers
Prior to its activities in support of WikiLeaks and the very public shaming of security firm HBGary, most of the world had no idea who or what Anonymous was. While its members remain…
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Turkish police arrest 32 Anonymous suspects
It’s been a very busy year for the hacktivist groups Anonymous and LolzSec, but while both groups have enjoyed plenty of time in the limelight, that exposure has understandably riled law enforcement...
View ArticleLulzSec takes Eve Online and Minecraft offline
The hacking collective LulzSec has struck again today, and it’s gamers that are going to be the most upset. Both MMO Eve Online, and indie hit Minecraft are thought to have had their…
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Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested in the UK
Police in the Wickford, Essex announced today that they’ve detained a 19-year old suspected to be the mastermind behind LulzSec, the result of a joint raid conducted by Scotland Yard and the FBI.…
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Anonymous targets Orlando city web sites over anti-homeless law
Orlando, Florida is perhaps only well known abroad because the city is the home of the Disney World theme park and other Disney-themed and Universal Studio resorts. The hacking arm of Anonymous has…
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Paypal hands over 1,000 IP addresses of Anonymous attackers
When Anonymous took up arms against Paypal last year for freezing Wikileaks‘ account and launched DDoS attacks against the billing and payment company, some of the attackers apparently left behind...
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Anonymous tests nasty new Denial of Service attack tool
Until the last few months, most of the Internet-using public hadn’t heard of Anonymous or distributed denial of service attacks, either. While both Anonymous and DoS have been bandied about with...
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Anonymous says Facebook attack video is fake
SOPA and PIPA are temporarily shelved, but internet freedom is far from secure. Though most people prefer to protest draconian legislation by signing petitions, writing congressmen, and voting for SOPA...
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GoDaddy suffers major outage
Potentially thousands of websites have been knocked offline after an alleged attack from Anonymous on web hosting provider GoDaddy.com. While the Anonymous connection has yet to be officially verified,...
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GoDaddy insists outage wasn’t caused by an attack
Yesterday web hosting company GoDaddy suffered a major outage that took down its website, servers, and DNS infrastructure completely for several hours. The outage affected thousands of websites and...
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Demonoid tracker back online, servers moved to Hong Kong
Back in August, Demonoid, the most popular private torrent community, was suddenly removed from the face of the Internet in the wake of a DDoS attack and a coincidentally-timed, but seemingly unrelated...
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Android malware mimics Play, performs DDoS attacks, sends text spam
Those of you with an Android device should be on the lookout — the security firm Dr. Web is warning users of a new trojan that disguises itself using the Google Play icon.…
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Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails could bring 200,000 sites down
In the realm of computer security there are bugs, and then there are bugs. The latter refers to a real showstopper — the kind of bug that could bring a website to its…
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This is what a DDoS attack looks like
By now, almost everyone has at least heard or seen the term DDoS. Unless you’re fairly geeky, however, you might not know what a distributed denial-of-service attack is or how one works. Even…
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Paypal turns blind eye to payments totaling $35,000 for on-demand DDoS
It seems as though just about anyone with Internet access can set up a profitable online enterprise these days — including a criminal one. And for one Illinois teen, YouTube and PayPal have…
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12-year-old computer hacker is youngest ever to face charges
A 12-year-old Canadian boy pleaded guilty to a slew of computer hacking charges in a Quebec court last week. He’s due to be sentenced next month and could become the world’s youngest convicted […]
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Battlefield 4 servers suffer DDoS attack
One of the big draws of Battlefield 4 is the multiplayer experience but this weekend that a DDoS attack ruined that.
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