BoingBoing Gets Taken Down by DDoS: Iran Cyberwar Guide to Blame?

Cory Doctorow, founder and editor of the über-popular weblog BoingBoing, has reported that Boing Boing has been taken down by a DDos — better known as a Denial-of-service attack — on Tuesday. "#boingboing is...

American teenager pleads guilty to Scientology web attack

A 19-year-old American man has admitted knocking the Church of Scientology's websites offline in a series of electronic attacks in 2008. Dmitri Guzner of Verona, New Jersey pleaded guilty to charges of cybercrime against the religious organisation and related websites, which...

Computer Hacker Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison

" SACRAMENTO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that GREGORY KING, 21, of Fairfield, Calif., was sentenced to two years in federal prison. KING was also...

Whose Internet is it anyway?

"This week we've seen two Internet events that are more alike than dissimilar. On Wednesday, an Estonian court convicted a 20-year Russian for his part in last spring's distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on that nation. On Thursday, word of mounting DDoS attacks on...

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