WordPress Hit by Second Massive Attack in Two Days

The main WordPress.com site was the target of a major DDoS attack yesterday that knocked the popular blogging platform offline for a couple of hours, and another attack that hit the site again Friday morning. The service is back online now, but the attacks may be an indication that the service...

WordPress under massive DDoS attack !

Readers of Financial Post or National Post blogs might have found them difficult, if not impossible, to access Thursday morning. That is because WordPress, the platform through which every FP and NP blog has been published for the past 10 months, has been under attack by hackers for the past...

Anonymous Hackers announces next DDoS Target Iribnews.ir at 5am GMT !

Anonymous Hackers announces next DDoS Target Iribnews.ir at 5am GMT ! FAX NAO: DDoS 5am GMT TARGET: www.iribnews.ir PORT:80 METHOD:TCP Press Release : Click Here VIDEOS: LOIC Hive: loic.anonops.in Channels: ir1...

Operation Tequila - Anonymous Hackers New target for Saturday, EXAfm.com !

Operation Tequila - Anonymous Hackers New target for Saturday, EXAfm.com ! Citizens of the world: Tequila is not finished... Following the OpTequila, Anonymous has decided to support the protests that are going on February 12th in Mexico DF against the censoring measures taken by MVS and Mexican...

Anonymous hackers launch DDoS attack on Egypt !

Hot on the heels of similarly politically-motivated attacks against websites belonging to the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe, hackers are bombarding official websites in Egypt with a DDoS attack. The hackers' current target is believed to be the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and...

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried...

Ruleaks.net и Rospil.info подверглись DDoS-атаке

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Top-Channel.Tv DDOS Atack By Teo DownTurn (AHT-CREW)

Top-Channel.Tv DDOS Atack By Teo DownTurn AHT-CREW Top-Channel.Tv The Best TV Channel In Albania...!!! Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

4chan back online after being downed by DDoS attacks !

A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of...

Michael Calce Warns of Online Dangers at HDS Canada's Forum

The guest keynote speakers at technology conferences can vary in quality, but Hitachi Data Systems HDS Canada NYSE: HIT made a smart choice by inviting Michael Calce, also known as Mafiaboy, to speak at their recent Information Forum event in Toronto. Calce gained notoriety as a teenage hacker fr...

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Moneybookers Attack

Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes, has claimed responsibility for various Internet attacks against organizations perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks. Today, the group sought to portray itself as more focused on symbolic protest rather than outright disruption. These claim...

Second Dutch Teen Arrested Over Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in connection with the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks seen earlier this week. The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to the Dutch Police and the national prosecutor's...

Anonymous Clarifies Its Identity and Mission in Recent Statement

On December 10, 2010, Anonymous released a press statement to clarify its identity and objectives. Who is Anonymous? Anonymous, often misunderstood, is not a conventional group. Instead, it is an internet gathering without formal structure. Both Anonymous and the media acknowledge the perceived...

Wikleaks struggles back online at new Domain/ Web-address !

Wikileaks is struggling to return at a new web address, wikileaks.ch, after hoster EveryDNS.net threw in the towel in the face of a sustained distributed denial of service DDoS attack. This too appears to have gone down intermittently, whether from service overload or a new DDoS. A ping to the...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Wikileaks Suffers Second DDoS Attack

The Wikileaks Website labored under a massive denial of service attack Tuesday, 48 hours after the site published its first installment of a massive trove of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. Both Wikileaks.org and cablegate.wikileaks.org, the subdomain created to host the leaked U.S. embassy cables...

Massive Denial Of Service Attack Severs Myanmar From Internet

The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks. The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have...

CVE-2010-2361

Winny 2.0b7.1 and earlier contains a vulnerability in the processing of BBS information. This flaw can enable a remote attacker to participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activities. The public sources (e.g., JVN/JVNDB) explicitly advise not using Winny as the mitigation. No patch or ...

Media Temple Web Hosting Suffers DDoS Attack

Media Temple, Web hosting provider for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks, was hit with a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. Read the full article. CNET...

Scientology DDoS Attacker Gets Jail

A second US man has been jailed over controversial denial of service attacks against the Church of Scientology two years ago. Read the full article. The Register...