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Wikileaks Taken Offline
Blog On Monday, the main site of Wikileaks was ordered to be taken offline by a California judge. According to a press release from Wikileaks, which provides an anonymous, encrypted online document-hosting service for whistle-blowers, Wikileaks main...
[February 18, 2008, 17:06]
Dell Improves Customer Service With Implementation Of Clustered Order Management System
White Papers Because it was always running at full capacity, "GO" was taking too long to process orders and a lack of built-in fault tolerance meant that the system often had to be taken offline for manual maintenance.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Al-Jazeera Suffers DoS Attack
News The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's Domain Name Servers (DNS).
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
Web Bookmakers Tool Up Against Blackmail Hack Attacks
News DDoS attacks are used maliciously to force Web servers offline by flooding them with data traffic. Criminals gangs are understood to be demanding large sums of money from bookmakers, and warning those that don't pay up that their Internet sites...
[February 23, 2004, 14:35]
Academics Search For Clues After Supercomputer Attacks
News In particular, certain affected systems have been taken offline until such time as the nature and extent of the breach can be determined and preventative measures to harden UCAR's IT infrastructure put into place," the group said in a statement...
[April 16, 2004, 10:20]
Lycos Anti-spam Campaign Bites The Dust
News The tool was taken offline last Friday, but at the time Lycos claimed that the tool would soon be back online. The company forcefully denied it launched any denial-of-service attacks on spammers and that it took two Chinese Web sites offline.
[December 6, 2004, 16:05]
ISP Hackers Likely To Evade Justice
News Hackers can find a way around this, but even then a targeted server can be taken offline by its owners. The hack attack targeted the most vulnerable point of our network -- the Web servers -- and through this door they were able to obtain...
[February 14, 2002, 11:01]
Plan For Mobile Device Failure
News One of the most interesting is what you will do if your mobile users suddenly need to deal with services going offline. If you cannot fail over, you will need to have alternate methods for getting the word out about how long the systems will be...
[February 7, 2006, 12:05]
Blog Site Back Up After Hack Attack
News Pyra has taken the machine that was compromised offline and restored the Blogger site from its redundant servers, said Jason Shellen, the company's director of business development. Pyra took down the Blogger site at around 9 am PDT, and it was...
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
The Dangers Of Scripting Flaws In IE
News Gentoo Linux has taken one or more of its servers offline, apparently because of the same vulnerability that was exploited at Debian. Cisco Systems has warned that Aironet 1100, 1200, and 1400 series access points can permit WEP keys to be...
[December 15, 2003, 17:00]
IBM To Release Low-end Linux Server
News OpenPower 710, which can be powered by up to two 64-bit 1.65GHz IBM POWER5 processors, was posted for sale on IBM's UK Web site late last week, but was later taken offline. The low-cost machine is likely to compete with Sun's lower-end Unix servers...
[January 24, 2005, 12:55]
FBI Missing The Real Hacking Threat?
News While the Brookhaven hack was quickly removed, MSNBC reported that the site itself was taken offline between 5:30 a.m.and 1 p.m. The Posse's note prominently thanked the script kiddies, who use script-based programs to break into servers, for...
[June 3, 1999, 11:00]
Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy
News One such service, called Randseed, was taken offline as "a precautionary measure," according to an email from its operator, to thwart bogus threats or tips from anonymous senders. representative said the company's network had experienced "an...
[September 12, 2001, 10:58]
Glitch Takes Down 30,000 Sites
News A software glitch in Network Solutions' hosted Web addressing system knocked what may have been as many as 30,000 Web sites and email addresses offline for several hours Thursday morning. The global DNS, responsibility for which is spread between...
[August 1, 2003, 11:45]
Council Of Europe Presses For 'hate Speech' Internet Ban
News It is difficult to apply the UK Public Order Act to online content -- there is a lack of clear precedents relating to offline content that we would need to make a judgement about anything being illegal online," said David Kerr, chairman of the...
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
Yahoo! Shows Tougher Line On Piracy Than Child Porn
News had now shut the chatrooms down, but did not specify when the material had been taken offline. but the offending rooms still exist on its US servers. The chatroom, "older men for younger gals" is still running on US servers and is still available...
[March 7, 2001, 13:27]
Hacking Tools Tipped To Become Weapons Of The State
News In the most extreme example, a company's Web site could even be taken offline by a distributed DoS attack, which Reidenberg likened to the "death penalty", if they failed to comply with a legal order.
[March 10, 2004, 12:35]
Zindos Worm Relies On Its Pal MyDoom
News Within a month, different variants of the worm had knocked SCO's Web site offline and launched an attack on the Microsoft.com Web site. To avoid the MSBlast worm last August, the company temporarily changed the DNS of its Microsoft.com domain so...
[July 28, 2004, 13:25]
Hackers Strike At Islamic Web Sites
News According to computer experts, the official Web site of the Presidential Palace of Afghanistan (www.afghangovernment.org) was taken offline after computer attackers sent so many requests for information that the site became inaccessible to traffic...
[September 18, 2001, 10:13]
Patch Fixes Flaw Behind Gentoo Attack
News The team said that the attacker used a flaw in Rsync along with a recently-announced bug in the Linux kernel to penetrate the security of the Gentoo machine, which was subsequently taken offline for analysis.
[December 5, 2003, 11:50]
