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Here's why some of you couldn't get on Twitter today

Oct 21, 2016
Twitter, Spotify, and PayPal weren't actually the target of a DDoS attack today.
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Anonymous hackers rounded up in Italy

Jul 8, 2011
I mean, they're hackers with names. They're not just mysterious nameless hackers. They're accused of being part of the hacking group known as...

LulzSec war begins

Jun 21, 2011
Yesterday we told you about the hacking group LulzSec declaring war on world governments, banks, and corporations. One of the first apparent...

Philosophical DDoS attacks are not the exclusive province of Wikileaks

Dec 22, 2010
Our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society say that the number of online attacks intended to shut down human rights groups'...

Amazon Europe either hacked or not

Dec 13, 2010
Several European Amazon sites were down over the weekend, leading any sensible person to think that perhaps Anonymous was taking more revenge...

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Amazon next on Operation Payback's list

Dec 9, 2010
This will be interesting to watch. About two hours ago, the Operation Payback Twitter account tweeted: "TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOCKED ON!!!"....

30 months in jail for DDoS attacks on conservative websites

Nov 8, 2010
Mitchell L. Frost of Bellevue, Ohio is a 23-year-old former student at the University of Akron and he's going to jail for two and a half years in...