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Anonymous cyber-attacks cost PayPal £3.5m, court told

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Nov 22 2012, 11:14am CST

Four activists from the cybergang Anonymous caused multimillion-pound losses to a number of firms in revenge for the backlash against WikiLeaks, a court has heard. Using the name Operation Payback, the four flooded website ...

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'It Was as If I Got Kicked Off a Cliff'

Source: AOL Small Business  |   May 21 2013, 10:53am CDT

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfri ...

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2 days ago

Legitimate online services enable DDoS-attacks-for-hire sites

Source: ITWorld.com  |   May 20 2013, 8:17pm CDT

May 20, 2013, 9:17 PM — Is an online payment giant Paypal unwittingly enabling DDoS attacks? That's the question posed by security researchers who have studied a small, weird corner of the market for distributed denial of service (DDoS) services: so ...

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25 weeks ago


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"As a consequence of the attack they suffered loss of reputation and sales ... The total cost of the attack, including additional staffing, software and loss of sales, was approximately £9,000."


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4 days ago

Alleged 'PayPal 14' Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison After Nearly 2 Years In Limbo

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 18 2013, 5:26pm CDT

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfriend. He was ...

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6 days ago

Ragebooter: ‘Legit’ DDoS Service, or Fed Backdoor?

Source: Krebs On Security  |   May 16 2013, 8:43am CDT

On Monday, I profiled asylumbooter.com, one of several increasingly public DDoS-for-hire services posing as Web site “stress testing” services. Today, we’ll look at ragebooter.net, yet another attack service except for one se ...

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