ddos attacks

I'm really beginning to wonder about the MPAA's PR people and their near total inability to think through how their statements will be perceived.

It's put out a response to the DDoS attacks from Anonymous by trying to "take back" the moral high ground on the free speech issue.

Last week Sony shut down its PlayStation Network (PSN) and in the information vacuum that followed, fingers were mainly pointed at Anonymous – had they pulled off another of their paralyzing DDoS attacks?

Quickly, however, Anonymous denied the accusations, even going as far as issuing a press release claiming innocence.

British police have arrested five people for their alleged participation in some of the highly-publicized DDoS attacks last month.

The five individuals - all males, between the ages of 15 and 26 - were arrested after a series of raids in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Herfordshire, Surrey and London.

The five are being held on suspicion of being involved in Anonymous, the loose affiliation of "hacktivists" who have targeted a number of websites, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, with distributed denial of service attacks.

These attacks followed WikiLeaks' release of US diplomatic

While I find Operation Payback fascinating, from a sociological/cultural perspective, I've said from the very beginning that I thought their DDoS strategy to be a bad idea.

Operation Payback has been without a doubt the longest and most widespread attack on anti-piracy groups, lawyers and lobbyists.

Despite the massive media coverage, little is known about the key players who coordinate the operation and DDoS attacks.

As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office.

The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour.

As part of the ongoing slaughter of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of the UK Intellectual Property Office.

The website of the Government body has been unresponsive for nearly a day after the 'Operation Payback" attack started yesterday afternoon.

In recent weeks dozens of anti-piracy groups, copyright lawyers and pro-copyright outfits have been targeted by a group of Internet ‘vigilantes’ under the flag of Operation Payback.