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DDOS Attack Was Because Of One Guy’s Livejournal
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | According to a Facebook executive, the target of today’s DDOS attacks on Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube and other social media sites was one pro-Georgian blogger going by the username of “Cyxym.” No word as to who was behind the attack. More »
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Why Gizmodo Went Down
11:58PM Jesus Diaz | As you may have noticed this weekend and yesterday, Gizmodo US—and all the Gawker sites—went down in flames for a couple of days. They are now back at full power, and have a pretty accurate idea of what happened. More »
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The Official Reason AT&T Blocked 4Chan
2:09AM Matt Buchanan | Fresh from the Mouth of AT&T, who like his Lord of the Rings counterpart, wears creepy masks at inappropriate times is AT&T’s official reason they blocked 4chan. It was, as suspected, blamed on a DDoS attack from that IP address: More »
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Why Did AT&T Block 4Chan?
10:59PM Matt Buchanan | It’s indisputable at this point that AT&T blocked 4chan—what’s 4chan, you ask?—the cesspool that has spawned some of the internet’s greatest memes, like LOLCATs. We hear it’s because of a massive DDoS attack emanating from that IP address. More »
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Pirate Bay Under Attack, DDoS Style
11:03AM Wilson Rothman | I just noticed that tons of commenters on our latest Pirate Bay trial update were saying that the site was down, and sure enough, others are reporting that the Bay is indeed under attack. Reuven at Sys-Con.tv is saying it’s an orchestrated DDoS assault, and that the culprit may have hijacked a botnet to make it happen. I guess it’s pretty serious. [Sys-Con.tv and Giz comments] More »
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