Rough Justice For Terry Childs
snydeq writes “Deep End’s Paul Venezia sees significant negative ramifications for IT admins in the wake of yesterday’s guilty verdict for Terry Childs on a count of ‘denial of service.’ Assuming the...
View ArticleJuror Explains Guilty Vote in Terry Childs Case
alphadogg writes “Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found...
View ArticleMassive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net
Trailrunner7 writes “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...
View ArticleFormer Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks
wiredmikey writes “A former University of Akron student was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for conducting denial of service attacks on the sites of...
View ArticleWikleaks Reports It Is Under A Distributed Denial Of Service Attack
@wikileaks WikiLeaks We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. 43 minutes ago via webRetweet A lot of people, including many givernments, have problems with WikiLeaks, the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack
wiredmikey writes “WikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The attack comes around the time of an expected release of classified State...
View ArticleMasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks
An anonymous reader writes “MasterCard’s website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users...
View ArticleAnonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines
An anonymous reader writes “Anonymous has claimed responsibility for distributed denial of service attacks against several anti-WikiLeaks websites this month. In a novel twist to the campaign, Mission...
View ArticleCall Interception Demonstrated On New Cisco Phones
mask.of.sanity writes “Researchers have demonstrated a series of exploits that turn Cisco IP phones into listening bugs, and could allow a denial of service attack capable of silencing a call center....
View ArticleAttackers Leak UN Usernames and Passwords
Orome1 writes “A group of hackers that go by the name of ‘Teamp0ison’ has apparently compromised one (or more) of UN’s servers and dumped over 1000 email addresses, usernames, and passwords of their...
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