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British site focusing on online scams targeted in DOS attackAttackers launch denial of service attack against Bobbear site, which offers consumers information about how to protect themselves against online scams. ... |
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Political Speech Shut Down: Do You Care?This week, a private web hosting company, Maia Hosting, acted in complicity with a criminal hacker to shut down two political web sites, one of them a non-partisan political web site unaffiliated with any party or candidates. The shut down by the company hosting the web sites came on the heels of... |
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Valve Tried to Lure Out Hacker with Fake Job Interview [Crime]Back in 2003, the source code for then-unreleased Half Life 2 showed up on file sharing sites. German Public Radio found the documents backing up what many have known for a while, that Valve worked with the FBI's Seattle office to try to lure out the hacker responsible with a job interview. Wired... |
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What is BotNet and What Does a Botnet Do - TutorialBotnet (Robot Network) is a large number of compromised computers that are used to create and send spam or viruses or flood a network with messages as a denial of service attack. The computer is compromised via a Trojan that often works by opening an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel that waits f... |
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DDoS Attacks Strike Campaigns Against Same-Sex Marriage BansA group fighting a California anti-gay marriage amendment says its website was attacked Wednesday night with a denial-of-service attack right as it launched a fundraising drive. The No on Prop 8 capaign says a similar Florida group was also hit with a DDoS and that the Secret Service is now inves... |
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'No on Prop 8' and Florida 'No on 2' Sites Under Coordinated AttackThe "No on Prop 8" website (and possibly Florida's "No on 2" site) was the victim of a coordinated denial-of-service attack at the height of fundraising efforts to defeat the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. The campaign reports: "Today the NO on Prop 8 campaign’s... |
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