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The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source

By Kyt Dotson | May 17 2012

In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone to Facebook to say that the attack started on Tuesday [...]

The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | May 10 2012

The Pirate Bay is unhappy with hackers from Anonymous who have taken it upon themselves to punish Virgin Media for following the edicts of the UK High Court. Cells of the hacktivist collective have recently placed the ISP in their sights for a massive DDoS after the decision requested that ISPs censor [...]

Anonymous Hacker Havittaja Slams DDoS Into CIA, US Department of Justice Websites

By Kyt Dotson | Apr 16 2012

In the wake of DDoS attacks against the UK Home Office, and the CIA, the International Business Times brings us the news that Anonymous cells have continued to disrupt government websites across the globe by washing away the US Department of Justice Website with a DDoS attack. The initial salvo against the cia.gov and [...]

Anonymous Brings DDoS Fist Down on UK and Turns Attention Towards China Over Human Rights

By Kyt Dotson | Apr 10 2012

The Anonymous collective brewed up a storm over this weekend by taking aim at government websites belonging to China and England. The cells involved have been communicating via Twitter and made warning of their attacks days ahead of time. The Anonymous spokespeople involve state that China is being targeted due to oppression [...]

Iranian DDoS on BBC has FBI On Alert for Further Cyberattacks

By Mellisa Tolentino | Mar 16 2012

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is keeping their eyes peeled for cyber attacks as they deem it might be used by terrorists to cause massive destruction. “While to date terrorists have not used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, we cannot underestimate their intent,” FBI Director Robert Mueller said on [...]

Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 20 2012

Yesterday, authorities announced a raid on Megaupload—a now popular Hong Kong-based file sharing site locked in a dramatic legal spat with Universal—a mere day after the highly publicized web-wide SOPA blackout date. The action brought the hactivist collective Anonymous buzzing down from the Internet as if the movie and music industry and [...]

FBI Arrests GeneSimmons.com DDoS Attacker, Connected to Anonymous

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 14 2011

The distributed denial of service attack is the favorite crushing blow of the Anonymous hactivist collective, but as it causes disruption and misery to Internet users in the fashion on malicious vandalism, it is considered a crime in most countries. FBI agents arrested a Connecticut man on Tuesday morning, charged with conducting [...]

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