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The number of website attacks in the U.S. is up almost 50% today
Is your favorite website experiencing problems today? There is a good chance that it is, since across the U.S. today there is a huge ~50% increase in malicious network attacks.
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The Pirate Bay is down, but not out
Rumors are going crazy at the moment on why The Pirate Bay is offline. If you go to The Pirate Bay site, it hasn’t been up and working since yesterday. People of the web are saying this is due to a raid in Sweden by Swedish police taking down TPB and other torrent sites.
Update: GoDaddy.com is back up
Good news for all you out there in Internetland. For those of you that were going to websites and it was erroring out due to the Go Daddy DNS failure earlier today, Go Daddy has confirmed via their Twitter that the issue has been resolved in the past hour.
#TangoDown: GoDaddy is unavailable, Anonymous says it’s their doing
If you are having problems accessing websites today you can thank Anonymous for it. Starting a couple hours ago, godaddy.com websites started failing due to a DNS outage, which an Anonymous user is claiming responsibility for.
Hacker hits mother load of 79 banks, posts CC’s and account info
A hacker that goes by the name Reckz0r on Twitter has claimed that he was able to hack into over 79 banks from around the world and obtain credit card information of Visa and MasterCard customers. The efforts took several months according to him via some Twitter posts.
Anonymous is building Anontune, a social music discovery platform
Anonymous, the hacker group that you probably have heard of by now is doing something different to cause a disruption. Anon is trying to disrupt the music business, in a similar fashion as Napster or Limewire did as it’s predecessors, however not exactly in the same way making sure not to break any copyright sharing laws, which they need to be very careful of. Anon is building what they call Anontune, which will be a social music aggregation and discovery service.
LulzSec did it for the lulz, and the FBI too
The story of the unraveling of LulzSec is fascinating. News broke this morning that the leader of LulzSec has been a secret informant for the FBI since last year.
Consumer data privacy in a networked world
The online privacy debate has been ongoing since the dawn of the Internet. One thing that can be agreed on through the test of time is that our privacy should not be taken lightly and is important so that we can protect our freedoms and liberties online. The U.S. Bill of Rights contains no express right to privacy, however can be construed in many ways that privacy is a protected right but just not expressly provided in the Bill of Rights.
A snapshot of the attacks during the Anon Megaupload retaliation
It’s been a crazy week for the Internet to say the least. First there were nationwide protests and blackouts against SOPA, with citizens of the web uniting as one to keep an open and free Internet. Then yesterday, things really popped off after major file sharing website MegaUpload was shut down by the FBI, after a 2-yr long investigation.
Hacker group Anonymous fights back, in support of #MegaUpload
Holy cow, is this really happening? After hearing about the MegaUpload shut down, the hacker or ‘hactivist’ group Anonymous is already taking a stance on the situation, and fighting back. They have already taken down Justice.gov and UniversalMusic.com and shot off a tweet saying “justice.gov & universalmusic.com TANGO DOWN! You should have EXPECT US! #Megaupload.”
Sadly, Iran takes additional steps to national Internet censorship
According to the latest report, Iran has taken additional steps this past week in their greater focus to censor the entire Internet for their nation of web users.
Anonymous isn’t going to kill Facebook after all
In a sad turn of events, Anonymous affirms they are not going to attack Facebook at all. Earlier this year it was reported that Anon had their sites on Facebook for today. There were some rumors that this was false, but many continued to say it was true. So today came and I had my popcorn ready, but unfortunatley the inevitable never happened.
Reminder: Anonymous set to obliterate Facebook Nov 5th
When Anonymous is not busy taking down governments and fighting Mexican drug cartels, they are planning other things - like targeting one of the biggest websites known to human kind - that’s right, they plan on taking down Facebook.
Anonymous goes toe-to-toe with Los Zetas Mexican cartel
Los Zetas is one of the top three drug cartels in Mexico where drugs, violence and corruption are taking over downtown Mexico and it’s border cities. The other top drug cartels are the Juarez Cartel and Tijuana Cartel.
Google contradicts itself with Blogger and Google Plus integration
So maybe I am just having a long day or something, but doesn’t it seem that Google is contradicting itself with the Blogger and Google Plus integration? TechCrunch reported yesterday that Google’s blogging platform Blogger will be doing some integration with Google Plus. Then the official Blogger blog posted the planned integration as well confirming what TC was saying.
