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January 7, 2012

Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:47 PM/CST

McAfee Predicts More Hacktivism in 2012

McAfee addressed hacktivism in their 2012 security predictions.

October 12, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:57 AM/CST

RIM, Bank of America Outages Weren't Part of a Hack

Not every outage is a cyber-attack, but if companies aren't up front about why their services are not available, customers will assume hackers are at fault.

September 2, 2011

Friday, September 02, 2011 1:02 PM/CST

Anonymous Defaces Texas Police Website After Latest Arrests

U.K. police arrest someone for taking part in an Anonymous or LulzSec attack. Anonymous attacks and defaces Websites, leaks documents. Wash, rinse, repeat.

September 1, 2011

Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:00 PM/CST

WikiLeaks Battles Leaked Password, DDoS Attacks

WikiLeaks is faced with a leak of its own, as an encrypted file containing the uncensored diplomatic cables are readily on public Torrent sites.

August 30, 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:40 PM/CST

Apache Patches "Apache Killer" DoS Bug

Apache has released the patch to close the vulnerability in its venerable Web server, which if exploited, caused a denial of service attack on the server.

August 2, 2011

Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:35 AM/CST

Anonymous Member Plans Open Source Malware, Automated Tools

A member of Anonymous posted code for a framework to develop malware easily and efficiently and automated tools to launch attacks on PasteBin days before Black Hat and DEFcon.

April 5, 2011

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:24 PM/CST

Anonymous Gets Personal with Sony Attack

Some members of Anonymous are rallying to PS3 hacker Geohot's cause by targeting Sony Websites and digging up personal information on executives. Going after the children seem a little much, even for a group that thrives on anarchy.

March 30, 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:16 PM/CST

BBC Website Outage Not a DDOS Attack

Just because a site is down doesn't mean attackers launched a DDOS attack. Except you know, when it is a DDOS attack.

March 9, 2011

Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:07 PM/CST

Hackers DDOS Women's Web Site

From the this-can't-possibly-be-real files: Hackers marked the 100th International Women's Day on March 8 with a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks against the Web site.

January 4, 2011

Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:28 AM/CST

BitTorrent Can Be Exploited as a DDOS Tool

A user recently demonstrated how a malicious peer can take advantage of other computers using BitTorrent to generate a DDOS attack, at the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin.

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