internet blackout | DataProtectionCenter.com

Another massive DDoS internet blackout could be coming your way

28

Feb

2018

A massive internet blackout similar to the Dyn DNS outage in 2016 could easily happen again, despite relatively low-cost countermeasures, according to a new study out of Harvard University.

Category Hacker Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Click on an Anonymous link, and you could be DDoS’ing the US government

20

Jan

2012

Here’s a quick summary of events: * On Wednesday, thousands of websites participated in an “internet blackout”, protesting against proposed US anti-piracy legislation. * Yesterday, file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down, and its founders arrested. The charge? Online piracy alleged to have cost the entertainment industry more than half a billion dollars. * Overnight, websites […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

Reddit joins anti-SOPA internet blackout

13

Jan

2012

Instead of the normal (as self-described) “glorious, user-curated chaos” that is social news site Reddit, users on January 18th will instead find despair/nothingness/an urge to take action as the site joins the anti-SOPA internet blackout. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, Reddit will display “a simple message” about how the PIPA/SOPA legislation will shut […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘internet blackout’

Another massive DDoS internet blackout could be coming your way

Click on an Anonymous link, and you could be DDoS’ing the US government

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us