denial of service attacks

Well, this is bizarre. A few hours ago, we received an email to our copyright notice email address from Aiplex, an Indian anti-piracy/SEO/medical transcription company.

You may remember the company because we wrote a short post about them over a year ago, when its CEO said in an interview that it would resort to denial of service attacks on sites that didn't cooperate.

We also noted that the somewhat confused company listed "Bram Cohen" as a type of BitTorrent client.

The WebGL 3-D graphics specification implemented in Firefox and Chrome, and included in Safari, is subject to denial of service attacks.

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

Smashing Magazine has posted an excellent security guide to get you on the road to protecting your site and its data from some of the most common mistakes applications can make.

Several of the topics even come with PHP code to illustrate.

There's an entertainment industry lawyer who once used his blog to suggest that I had an "army of hackers" at my disposal that I would order to send a denial of service attack against anyone I disagreed with.

I thought that was pretty funny in how ridiculous a claim it was. Beyond the fact that I can barely get my dog to follow my instructions (and I feed her!), let alone anyone who reads this site, I think that denial of service attacks are a pretty dumb idea.

It does nothing but piss off people and doesn't make any real point at all.

Twitter seems to be almost back to normal today, but yesterday’s DDoS attacks marked one of the longest service outages since the regular sightings of the fail whale that plagued the microbloggi

Twibbon, a neat service that lets you customize your Twitter avatar to support movements you believe in – from charities to

As we learn more about the Denial of Service Attacks that took down Twitter and other social media sites earlier today, yet another wave of spam is invading the microblogging se

We now know that Facebook, Twitter, and LiveJournal were all victims of Distributed Denial of Service attacks that crippled each of their services for se