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Anonymous Goes Old-School, Attacks Egypt With Faxes

BY E.B. BoydFri Jan 28, 2011

With most of the Internet down in Egypt, hacktivists resort to the electronic equivalent of the carrier pigeon to get information into the country.READ»

HACTIVISM | Comment

Prepare for the Next Round of Hacktivism

BY E.B. BoydFri Dec 10, 2010

Politically motivated denial-of-service attacks of the kind that took down Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal aren’t going to go away. Here’s how you should prepare.READ»

WIKILEAKS | Comment

Twitter Playing Whack-a-Mole With Pro-WikiLeaks Hacktivist Accounts?

BY E.B. BoydThu Dec 9, 2010

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»

BLOGS | Comment

Biz Stone Advance Video re: Twitter Hack

BY Lena L. WestThu Aug 13, 2009

“We spent a lot of 2008 catching up with a lot of the popularity of Twitter, the unexpected popularity--getting there technically so that we were stable, and along comes this massive attack. You know, we learned. We worked behind the scenes with folks from Google and other companies to figure out how to stop the attacks and how to better deal with them in the future.”READ»

IRAN | Comment

Iranian Protests Becoming Crowd-Sourced Cyber War

BY Kit EatonWed Jun 17, 2009

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»