Mar 14
If you’re a regular on the internet, you probably know how a DDoS can choke your favorite site with garbage traffic
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Dec 11
Eric Rosol is not a big-time hacker. However, the Wisconsin man did participate in the 2011 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that Anonymous unleashed on Koch Industries—for one whole minute. And for that one minute of his life, a judge just decided, Rosol must pay a $183,000 fine.
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Nov 17
Any website owner will tell you that a DDOS attack is no fun at all. Heck, it is definitely one of the worse experiences that a website owner will be able to go through, and the situation can be more or less said to be amplified many times over if you happen to be a large organization, and your bread and butter is derived from activity on the website by users alone. Game servers, should they come under a DDOS attack, is but a minor inconvenience in the larger scale of things, and this is what seemed to have happened over the weekend for Battlefield 4 players.
Before replacing the news segment on its Battlelog page with some PS4 snippers, there was a message which gave confirmation to an ongoing issues which concerned PC servers. This message read, “We are currently experiencing attacks on our infrastructure that is impacting online gameplay on BF4 PC. We are working on mitigating actions.” DICE’s Ali Hassoon also confirmed that these were DDOS attacks, and we quote, “We are being targeted by a DDOS, but working on fixing it ASAP. I’m sorry somebody is ruining your and my day. Rest assured we are doing our best to mitigate the situation though.”
Battlefield 4 PC Servers Experience DDOS Attacks This Weekend original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 25
The completely competent folks of the NSA are saying that its nuked website
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Oct 25
The NSA’s Website Is Down
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NSA.gov was unresponsive late Friday afternoon due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS), according to packs of Anonymous-types on Twitter. Indeed the website would not load for us when we tried, but it’s hard to know why until we get confirmation from the NSA. If it is indeed a DDoS attack on the NSA, it would not be the first.
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Oct 22
Yesterday, Google announced Project Shield
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Aug 26
We’ve seen what exactly happens when a DDoS attack is initiated on a web site, such what happened to The Pirate Bay, Reddit and even Apple’s iMessage users, and apparently China’s Internet is currently suffering from what its government is calling the largest attack they’ve ever faced. (more…)
China Suffers Largest DDoS Attack They’ve Ever Faced original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jun 17
Familiar political tools like petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns now have online equivalents. But what about protest tactics like street marches, picket lines, sit-ins, and occupations? Where is the room on the internet for civil disobedience?
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Apr 26
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been hearing about an increased number of public DDoS attacks where The Pirate Bay, Reddit and even iMessage users became victims of these attacks. Considering these attacks against a number of popular websites and services have been popping up, we think its best to educate you to what exactly happens when a DDoS attack occurs, and lucky for us, VideoLAN recorded such an attack.
VideoLAN, who are known to be the creators of VLC, suffered a DDoS attack on April 23, which they took a record of to show exactly what happens when a DDoS attack is initiated. The colored balls are requests that are being sent to the server and the small paddle is a representation of the server trying to keep up with these requests, with balls don’t get hit resulting in a 404 error. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Netflix Ditching Microsoft Sliverlight For HTML5, YouTube Co-Founder Announces MixBit Collaborative Video Platform, 
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Apr 26
What a DDoS Attack Looks Like
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When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn’t much to see. Maybe you’ll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like. More »
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