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5 People Arrested for Launching DDOS Attacks on Systems of Chinese Gaming Company

May

2014

A total of five individuals have been arrested by Chinese authorities on suspicion of being behind distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks launched against the systems of a Shanghai-based online gaming company. According to police in Shanghai ‘s Xuhui District, cited by Ecns.cn, the first suspect, surnamed Wu, was arrested in January, after the targeted company provided […]

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Glitch Reroutes China’s Internet … to Wyoming

Jan

2014

Hundreds of million of Internet users struggled to get online yesterday after most of the country’s web traffic was mysteriously rerouted to a small building in Wyoming. Chinese authorities say the redirection was the result of a glitch in the country’s domain system, but analysts believe the Internet traffic ended…

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First microblog attack in China

Jun

2011

Sina microblog is the biggest microblogging platform in China and is very similar to Twitter. It has more than 140 million users, which is almost 10% of the population of China. On June 28 this year, it was attacked by an XSS worm and more than 30,000 users were affected. The worm aggressively sends out […]

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