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10 Days of Rain in Korea

05
Jul
2011

On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 sites affiliated with South Korean government, military and civilian critical infrastructure as well as U.S. Forces Korea […]

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EVE Online and other gaming websites hit by LulzSec DDoS attack

15
Jun
2011

EVE Online, the popular sci-fi multiplayer online game, is amongst the latest websites to have been attacked by the LulzSec hacking group. In an operation dubbed “Titanic Takeover Tuesday”, LulzSec instigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that swamped EVE Online’s web servers and forced makers CCP Games to take the site completely offline for some […]

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32 Anonymous suspects arrested in Turkey

13
Jun
2011

Turkish police are reported to have detained 32 people in connection with internet attacks that have disrupted access to government websites. Alleged members of the loosely-knit Anonymous hacktivist group were rounded up in 12 cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, just days after similar arrests of Anonymous suspects in Spain. At the end of last week, […]

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