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  • Today’s Brutal DDoS Attack Is The Beginning Of A Bleak Future

    Today’s Brutal DDoS Attack Is The Beginning Of A Bleak Future

    This morning a ton of websites and services, including Spotify and Twitter, were unreachable because of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a major DNS provider. Details of how any the attack happened remain vague, but one thing seems certain. Our internet is frightfully fragile in the face of increasingly sophisticated hacks.


  • Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years

    Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years

    Yesterday, an environmentalist faction of Anonymous took down a Hawaiian state government website and a site for the Thirty Meter Telescope project, a controversial effort to build the world’s second largest telescope atop Mauna Kea. You’ve probably never heard of Operation Green Rights. But that’s the point.


  • So Who Shut Down North Korea’s Internet?

    So Who Shut Down North Korea’s Internet?

    Just this past Friday, North Korea’s already shaky internet access started to crumble. Over the weekend, things just got worse, and by yesterday morning, the country was in a state of total blackout. Considering that the U.S. just officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack, and that the U.S. asked China for help in…