The Anonymous-led hack attack going on against web properties of the DOJ and others is apparently employing a cunning new tactic to improve its potency: It's getting regular web users to launch denial-of-service attacks.READ»
Distributed denial of service attacks, of the kind pro-WikiLeaks hacktivists have been aiming at PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, require coordination. The hacktivists have been using Twitter to coordinate those attacks. And Twitter, it seems, may be trying to shut them down.READ»
4Chan's Anonymous "hacktivists" have launched attacks on various websites wrapped up in the latest WikiLeaks chapters in revenge for what they see as illegal treatment of the whistleblower site and its head Julian Assange. Expect more of this in the coming years. READ»
The continuing Google versus Chinese censorship and cyberattack affair has just taken a bizarre twist: Five Chinese human rights activists Web sites were the subject of DDoS attacks over the weekend, and they are blaming the Chinese ...READ»
This morning you logged on to Facebook and Twitter, only to find you had no way of announcing to the world that you were starting a new diet. Or eating Raisin Bran. Or hungover. So you stormed away from your computer, irate: how could ...READ»
Protesting Iranians were already using new technology like Twitter to coordinate their efforts, as we noted on Monday. Now those protests are taking a new direction--with simple crowd-sourced denial of service (DDos) attacks being ...READ»
