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. Read More >>
Featured comment by smallcoder:
"Could watch that for hours... well, back in the days of herbal indulgence anyway.
Cool to see it visualised as it makes it comprehendable to even ..." More »
You might've read some headlines today—in very reputable publications—saying that there's an internet attack underway. The biggest in history. Enough to slow down the internet. This would be exciting and scary, except it's just not true. Read More >>
Featured comment by coastwalker:
"Good to see Gizmodo make BBC science news journalists / editors look like the idiots they are. News is news mostly so I wish they didnt treat it all a..." More »
Bittorrent has the power to do many things, mainly things to do with letting us watch new episodes of US TV shows six hours after they were first broadcast. But, if used badly, it can DDoS innocent web sites by sending millions of requests their way through incorrect tracker listings. Read More >>
Wikileaks, the Internet's top platform for exposing secrets of all varieties, is reporting that it's been under serious attack for the better part of a week. This extended DDoS is still coming in strong, and has brought the site to its knees. Read More >>
Ukraine's government is currently feeling the wrath of Anonymous, after it decided it'd be a great idea to take out one of the biggest torrent trackers as a present for the US. OpDemonoid is Anonymous' way of saying, haven't you learnt anything, Ukraine? Read More >>
Featured comment by Josh:
"There seem to be much better sites they could spend their time attacking, like terrorist or child porn ones. But I guess that would be 'censoring'." More »
Last week, one of the largest torrent websites, Demonoid, was taken down in a flurry of DDoS attacks and ended up serving malware to visitors. The site can now rest easy from any attacks, but visitors will have to look elsewhere for torrents, as the Ukrainian authorities have shut the site down as a gift to the U.S. to show that the country takes copyright infringement seriously. Read More >>
Looks like Anonymous isn't all that happy with Virgin doing what it was court ordered to do and blocking The Pirate Bay across its network. The hacking collective has forced the Virgin Media website offline with a classic DDoS attack, which kicked off at 5pm last night and still seems to be going strong this morning. Read More >>
The Saturday night hack-a-thon organised by Anonymous will continue this week, with UK-based members of the collective having another go at DDoS-ing the UK government into submission over its controversial extradition rules. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"I live five minutes from GCHQ. I'm always curious as to what goes on in the doughnut. I've heard rumours that it descends 50 feet underground and has ..." More »
Looks like Anonymous is serious about its hatred of the Home Office website. Having given it a battering just over a week ago, Anonymous again focused its DDoS cannon on the HO site over the weekend, but only managed to take it out for intermittent periods this time; looks like the government is actually learning for once. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"And what exactly are they hoping to achieve with this latest bit of stupidity? More arrested members of anonymous? Do they have any idea what GCHQ do,..." More »
It took a few days, but a representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday's DDoS attack against the CIA. Read More >>
Featured comment by pditty:
"Except that hacking such a server and using it in an attack basically ruins the chances of any investigation (which may have already been ongoing). Co..." More »
Taking a shorter break than their last vacation, Anonymous is back at it already. Reports are coming in that they had completely knocked out CBS.com for a good period of time. This wasn't your regular DDoS attack because if you went to CBS.com at the time Anon attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. Basically, Anonymous gained access to CBS.com and deleted EVERYTHING. Read More >>
Anonymous is at it again and this time they’ve been irked by the Finns. It launched a DDoS campaign against two Finnish anti-piracy sites, after a court order forced Elisa, a Finnish ISP, to block The Pirate Bay. The Finns seem to be following a similar course to us Brits, with the recent Newzbin2 blockades here in the UK, and Anonymous isn’t happy about it. Read More >>
Chalk another one up to the cyber cops of Scotland Yard -- they've arrested a 16-year-old who attempted to instigate a DDoS attack on the Royal Wedding back in April, which had to be fended off by the rozzers. Read More >>
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