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Site Taken Offline After Microsoft Complaint
News In an uncommonly harsh application of a widely used Internet enforcement tool, a Windows news site was taken offline for nearly 24 hours last week after Microsoft accused the site of infringing its copyrights.
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
FFII Web Site Taken Down
News The FFII Web site has been taken offline, after a German software company obtained a court order against the anti-patent campaign group. René Holzer, the chief executive of Nutzwerk, said on Tuesday that when the FFII did not respond to these court...
[August 2, 2005, 15:40]
Time Collapse Support Site Forced Offline
News Martin Hoscik, director and co-owner of SiteHQ, confirmed on Tuesday morning that SiteHQ had taken the site offline, but categorically denied that pressure from lawyers, or anyone connected with Granville Technology Group, had been a factor.
[August 1, 2005, 17:50]
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]
Charity Caught In Anti-spam Crossfire
News A religious charity in London recently discovered first-hand the dangers that can accompany new measures to stem the tide of junk email, when the organisation's site was yanked offline without notice.
[August 30, 2002, 15:22]
FFII: Site Complexity Hindered Legal Fix
News The anti-patent campaign group's Web site was taken offline late on Monday by its hosting company, following a request from Nutzwerk, a German software company. The FFII admitted on Tuesday that the complexity of its Web site meant that it was...
[August 3, 2005, 16:00]
Al-Jazeera Suffers DoS Attack
News One of the companies, US-based NavLink, even declined to comment on why their own Web site was offline yesterday. The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation as a distributed...
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
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]
Hackers Deface US Senate, Challenge FBI
News The hacked site was quickly taken down and senate.gov is currently offline. On Wednesday, fbi.gov was knocked offline by a hack attack shortly after the FBI served search warrants on members of hacker group Global Hell (gH).
[May 28, 1999, 8:41]
Police Investigate Charity Hack
News The Web site was taken offline as soon as the breach was discovered but it is not known yet how the hackers broke in. Neville Kyrke-Smith, UK national director of Aid to the Church in Need, has already contacted over 2,800 charity donors identified...
[December 12, 2005, 14:00]
Australians Hit By Online Bank Fraud
News The IP address used by the bogus Web site is apparently allocated to a Taiwanese telco, but the site itself has now been taken offline. The Web site users are taken to has nothing to do with Melbourne IT, and does not use a secure connection...
[March 18, 2003, 10:46]
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. According to security watchers, the Posse is more sophisticated than the hackers behind previous government site hacks.
[June 3, 1999, 11:00]
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]
Xbox Crackdown Frustrates Customers
News Customers of Hong Kong-based Web retailer Lik-Sang report they've heard nothing regarding dozens of orders they placed with the site shortly before it went offline last month. Ted, a 30-year-old network administrator from Cliffside, New Jersey...
[October 10, 2002, 7:37]
Bertelsmann Dabbled In File-swapping Pre-Napster
News It's not whether Bertelsmann is finished with the Snoopstar file-sharing search engine, even if its early version has been taken offline. The software was noticed by another company interested in file sharing technologies [Snoopstar], and they...
[February 27, 2001, 10:08]
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. Within hours, the Zindos worm was sent to those machines already infected by MyDoom to open a secret back door...
[July 28, 2004, 13:25]
Hacking Goldmine As BT Publishes Remote Dial-up Numbers
News BT now plans to take the list offline, leaving only a tool where users can enter a specific number to find whether it will be included in their BT Together package or not. BT has admitted that it published the private remote access numbers of a...
[March 25, 2002, 18:00]
Cisco Quells 'dictionary Attack'
News EAP-FAST also doesn't allow the search for a match to be taken offline. What's more, LEAP also allowed hackers to try their password matches offline, giving them ample time and access to hunt for matches.
[April 15, 2004, 9:00]
Massive Demand For Unauthorised Windows Patch
News Ilfak Guilfanov's personal Web site has been taken offline by his hosting provider after hordes of Microsoft users scrambled to download his unofficial patch against the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
[January 4, 2006, 16:15]
No. 10 Web Site Collapses From Heavy Demand
News The government Web site was taken offline on Thursday when thousands of people around the world tried to access the evidence made available by the UK government concerning responsibility for the destruction caused to the World Trade Center and the...
[October 8, 2001, 16:03]
