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Suspect In Biggest Cyberattack Will Be Sent Home

AP/The Huffington Post | HAROLD HECKLE and CIARAN GILES | Posted 04.29.2013 | Technology

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MADRID -- A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what authorities have called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history is expe...

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Behind The Man Behind The Largest Cyberattack In History

AP | By HAROLD HECKLE and CIARAN GILES | Posted 04.29.2013 | Technology

Read More: Spamhaus, Ddos, Ddos Attack, Sven Kamphuis, Ap, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, Ap Sven Bunker Cyber, Technology News

MADRID (AP) — A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what authorities have called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history i...

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Reddit Under 'Blatantly Malicious' Attack

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2013 | Technology

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On Friday, Reddit was hit with a DDoS attack, or distributed denial of service attack. A DDoS attack interrupts a website's connection, making the web...

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One Of The Largest Cyber Attacks Ever Is Happening Right Now

AP / The Huffington Post | By RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 03.27.2013 | Technology

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LONDON (AP) — A record-breaking cyberattack targeting an anti-spam watchdog group has sent ripples of disruption coursing across the Web, experts sa...

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Anonymous Petitions White House

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 01.14.2013 | Technology

Members of Anonymous set up a petition on the White House official website Jan. 7 that asks the government to recognize DDoS as a valid form of protes...

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Anonymous, GoDaddy and SOPA: A Warning of What's to Come

Dan Johnson | Posted 11.11.2012 | Technology

Read More: RateMyCop.Com, Godaddy, Twitter, Googling, Anonymous, Web Hosting, Internet Shutdown, SOPA Bill, Ddos, Hack, Hackers, Breaking News, Technology News

If a disruption of service for less than eight hours will make this big of a splash on the internet, as is the intent of recent cybersecurity legislation, imagine what a complete shutdown of the internet will do.

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Within Anonymous, Members Find Security in a Collective Voice

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.27.2011 | Technology

Read More: Ryan Cleary, Anonymous, Anonymous Sony, Ddos, Lulzsec, Fbi, Lulz Security, Hackers, Technology News

Within the ranks of Anonymous, one member had crossed a line: He granted an interview to a reporter, discussing his role in the shadowy hacker group. ...

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Tumblr Down: Who's To Blame?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.09.2011 | Technology

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A Tumblr outage has sparked furious Web debate: was it 4Chan's fault? Signs suggest the cause of the outage might be less benign. Gawker isolated a...

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'Anonymous' Attacks Songwriters

Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Bmi, Songwriter, Ddos, Copyright, Piracy, Anonymous, Music, Anonymous Bmi, Anonymous Hacker Group, Media News

The hacker group known as 'Anonymous' launched a denial of service attack on the website of Broadcast Music Inc. It misconstrues the history and service to music culture that BMI has performed over the last 73 years.

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WordPress Hit With Massive Online Attack

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

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Blog host WordPress has been hit with the largest attack they've ever seen. According to a statement by founder Matt Mullenweg to CNET, WordPress...

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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Libya and the Short of It

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Cyberwar, Gov 2.0, Analyst, Ddos, U.S. Government, Libya, Alan W. Silberberg, Malware, .Ly Extensions, Shorteners, Social Media, Url Safety, Security, bit.ly, Oliver Marks, Zdnet, gov20, National Security, Politics News

There has been a spate of recent stories about the problems with shorterners, long before the current problems heated up. Governments should take the mischievous component out of the equation.

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Anonymous Shuts Down Tunisian Govt Websites After Violence and Web Censorship

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Internet, North Africa, Tunisia, Anonymous, Iran Protests, Wikileaks Cablegate, Africa, Protests, Julian Assange, Ddos, Cablegate, Assange, Wikileaks, World News

Websites run by the Tunisian government have been successfully targeted by Operation: Tunisia, a cell within Anonymous' Operation Payback, in a distributed denial of service action.

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The F Word: Remembering Why WikiLeaks Matters

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

It can be sexy to talk about digital direct action, but tech activists and political activists, especially in the US, bring a tremendous amount of privilege to the table.

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16-Year-Old Arrested For Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Operation Payback, Mastercard, Paypal, Wikileaks Cyber Attacks, Visa, Ddos, Wikileaks Hackers, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Amazon, Cyber Attacks, Wikileaks Arrest, Technology News

Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old teenager on Wednesday for his involvement in the online attacks against Visa and Mastercard, organized by supporte...

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MasterCard.com DOWN: WikiLeaks Supporters Hack Site For 'Payback'

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

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LONDON — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank, Sara...

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Amazon DOWN After DDoS Attack Cripples Amazon, Wal-Mart, Others

mashable.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

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If you've been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you've probably noticed that Amazon's web site was sluggish and, a...

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