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FBI allegedly investigating member of Lizard Squad after Christmas Day DDoS
A member of now infamous Internet mayhem group, Lizard Squad, is allegedly under investigation by the FBI after speaking to the media about recent attacks against Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony Online Entertainment’s PlayStation Network on Christmas Day. The Lizard Squad member, who goes by the handle of “ryanc” or Ryan, According to The Daily ...
Predicting DDoS into 2015: Distributed attacks will only get badder maybe not bigger
The use of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) has become the mainstay of Internet mayhem groups, hactivist protests, and even hacker warfare. Across 2014 there has been a certain amount of evolution of the tactics seen from previous years, but it’s also the same types of attacks and uses seen in the past years. ...
Predictions for DevOps in 2015: The Year of Smart DevOps
For some, it’s hard to pin down exactly what DevOps is, but it’s not hard to describe what it means: better collaboration between development and operations using a method designed to speed up the lifecycle of releases from development to deployment. DevOps practices have been evolving for several years now but there is obviously no ...
Last Minute Bitcoin Christmas Gift Buyers Guide 2014
It’s been said that 2014 would be the year of merchant adoption—and with numerous merchants climbing on board it’s been exactly that. Now, the Yuletide is upon us, you likely have bitcoins jingling in your digital wallet, and you’re wondering what to buy with bitcoins to make gifts for beneath the Christmas tree. Look no ...
Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Gift Guide for 2014
It’s been a banner year for bitcoin when it comes to new merchants adopting it as a digital currency, so it’s not difficult to figure out what to buy someone with bitcoins for the holiday, but what do you buy someone who is into Bitcoin for the holiday? Here’s a list of products that are ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 17: Time and Microsoft embrace Bitcoin, favorable mention by Ford Motor Company, Blockchain.info ‘hacker’ returns BTC
It’s the end of the year and Christmas is coming early: Microsoft and Time Inc. have both started accepting bitcoins. This continues a strong trend over 2014 of businesses adopting the digital currency. Although right now there’s a lot of eyes on the exchange price, which seems to be dropping, it’s never seen this level ...
Bitcoin cited in Ford’s 2015 Global Consumer Trends and Futuring report
Ford Motor Company has released a its “Looking Further with Ford” publication for 2015 [PDF link] that includes studies commissioned about the future of many different technologies as well as expected trends. Bitcoin made a debut with four mentions across the publication. The publication is compiled by Sheryl Connelly from Global Consumer Trends and Futuring ...
Microsoft’s early Christmas gift to Bitcoin is this year’s big news
In 2013, a survey of Bitcoin luminaries led to a single consensus about 2014: this would be the year of merchant adoption. Not only has 2014 lived up to this prediction, it has exceeded it in surprising ways with Overstock.com, TigerDirect, Dell, and others joining the increasing body of large businesses accepting bitcoin. It’s almost the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 10: Blockchain.info discloses security issue, BitQuest Bitcoin Minecraft server, Tim Draper buys into US Marshal’s auction again
The dominant story this week is all about how security is extremely important in the Bitcoin world–not to mention the Internet in general–when money is digital, it makes sense to keep it safe. Extremely popular wallet service and blockchain explorer Blockchain.info recently experienced a security issue that lasted a mere two and a half hours. ...
This week in DDoS: Xbox Live and PlayStation Network edition
Over the past week, the online gaming services that support Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Sony’s PlayStation consoles have faced service disruptions thought to be caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility in multiple cases as gaming services work to mitigate the damage. In the midst of ...