Microsoft Funds Startup Designed to Disrupt BitTorrent - 'Pirate Pay' Says They've Developed Swarm Attacking Technology

Source: DSL Reports

quote:Microsoft is funding a new Russian startup And who is the "Pirate Pay" providing funding to? If I'm not mistaken, if other clients/servers join the swarm and start to pollute it with false data, "Pirate Bay"'s servers would simply be blocked by th ...
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Bitmob Wants You: The Diablo III collection

Source: VentureBeat

We asked, and like an end-of-act boss dropping rare loot, you delivered. Our intrepid Bitmob community writers took on the task of writing about Diablo III in our latest Bitmob Wants You challenge. And they came through in a big ...
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After Broadband: Imagining a Future When Connected Networks Are All-pervasive

Source: Knowledge@Wharton

Chocolate printers. Corporate "health meters" based on the Facebook posting of employees. Wearable devices that jolt wearers with the functional equivalent of an electrical shock when they do something harmful to their long-term health. ...
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7 Lessons From MilitarySingles.com Hack

Source: TechWeb

Want to stop hackers from stealing sensitive data about your users? Then you must properly encrypt and salt stored passwords, subject any user-uploaded content to rigorous server-side security checks, and put mechanisms in place to detect when an attemp ...
Full article at: TechWeb  More like this  3 days ago, 11:13am CDT

123-Reg websites hit by attack

Source: BBC News

23 May 2012 Last updated at 15:53 A website owned by a Cardiff-based singing group was one of the businesses affected Clients of the web hosting company 123-Reg have seen their sites go offline after reports of an ...
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MASSIVE Chinese web cannons blast 123-reg offline

Source: The Register

A "massive" distributed-denial-of-service attack emanating from China last night took down 123-reg, the UK net biz that hosts 1.4 million websites. From 11:30 to 22:50 our network was undergoing a massiv ...
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Anonymous hacks Justice Department, releases data

Source: Hillicon Valley | The Hill Blogs

The hacker activist group Anonymous hacked into a Justice Department server and posted troves of data online on Monday. The group claimed it was releasing 1.7GB of data belonging to the "United States Bureau of Justice" and said the data included intern ...
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Hackers Impersonate Web Billing Firm’s Staff To Spill 500,000 Users’ Passwords And Credit Cards

Source: Forbes Blogs

Covering the worlds of data security, privacy and hacker culture. An image used as a profile picture on Twitter by UGNazi, the hacker group that claims credit for leaking web billing firm WHMCS's user database. British Web billing firm WHMCS is reel ...
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Source: Capitol Fax Blog

It couldn’t get any hits anyway. Wrigley Field is suffering a prolonged denial of service attack from the mayor’s office… Wrigley will post a big W on 6/8. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is performing live…unlike the Cubs lately. And Rich, if you know Rev Wri ...
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