TagsTagsWe've finally found a piece of legislation so wrong-headed and destructive of personal freedom that even Republicans are withdrawing their support. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — who was a co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP Act — became the latest lawmaker Wednesday to pull his support. In the House, Rep. Ben Quayle ...
In the past week or so I've noticed the rise of a new spammers' tactic on Twitter, and unfortunately they're using LGF to help them do it. Whoever's running this spam campaign is retweeting my posts about LGF articles and Pages, but changing the URLs to point to spam sites or ...
The irony is almost palpable: 4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online. The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan's status blog reported: "Site down due to ...
This is an excellent post by Anil Dash, on what site owners need to do if they don't want to end up with a website full of assholes. He's actually enumerating many of the principles that have helped LGF become a place for valuable discussion. I used to believe in a ...
They've been doing an exceptional job for LGF for years, and now Hosting Matters is running a special summer promotion with a great deal on an unmetered package for only $8.00 a month. ("Unmetered" means no charges for bandwidth usage, which means no headaches.) And if you already have a website, ...
Internet service in Egypt has been largely restored, and the activity on Twitter is fast and furious.
In an unprecedented move, Egypt has shut down all international Internet connections. Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through ...
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Muslim Brotherhood, Internet
The FBI has served more than 40 search warrants in the investigation of the cyberattacks against several major financial institutions. 'Anonymous' is finding out how un-anonymous they really are. The F.B.I. investigation is part of a larger international inquiry into a loose confederation of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” that coordinated the ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous, Crime, FBI
This is why I've never liked Facebook: Facebook thinks twice on giving dev access to phone, address data. Facebook has put off its plan to allow developers access to users' phone numbers and home addresses. The company posted an update on its Developer Blog Tuesday morning, saying that it got ...
The New York Times reports that hundreds of human rights activists, government officials, and businesspeople named in the Wikileaks cables have been warned by the State Department of threats to their safety, and some have been moved to safer locations. The operation, which involves a team of 30 in Washington ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Military, Security, Secrecy
Julian Assange has been threatening to "take down" a major US bank, and most people think he's talking about Bank of America. Here's an article at the New York Times on BofA's defense strategy. By the time the conference call ended, it was nearly midnight at Bank of America’s headquarters ...
The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing part of their criminal investigation of 'Operation Payback', leading to a raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29--As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous, Crime, FBI
Here's a screen shot, showing what a small portion of today's DOS attack looked like in the Apache error log:
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
After I posted the earlier article about the pro-Wikileaks non-organization "Anonymous" and their attack on the Bank of America website, and called them (with my usual tact) "vigilante morons," the non-organization's hive mind apparently decided to send a message to Little Green Footballs. I happened to be keeping an eye on ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
And this morning, the non-organization of non-hackers who are everywhere and everyone is attacking the website of Bank of America. It's pretty obvious that these vigilante morons won't be allowed to continue doing this much longer. UPDATE at 12/27/10 11:08:29 am: And now, because I criticized them, 'anonymous' is attacking LGF. Hang in ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack, Anonymous
Here's an odd move from Bank of America; anticipating the release by Wikileaks of internal memos, BofA is preemptively registering hundreds of domain names that insult their executives. As Bank of American awaits a possible release of information from WikiLeaks, it wants to ensure that you don’t think its executives ...
I'm not crazy about the new Net Neutrality regulations, because they're: 1) pretty weak sauce, and 2) full of loopholes that will let big ISPs get away with funny business, especially wireless providers. But one thing they obviously are not is an attempt by the Obama administration or the FCC to ...
The FCC is getting ready to pass a set of complex and controversial rules regulating net neutrality, that will create two classes of Internet connections -- one for wired Internet providers and one for wireless providers. While it's fairly good news for those who believe there shouldn't be "service tiers" ...
Forbes writer Daniel Kennedy has one of the best articles I've seen yet on the Gawker security mess, and Gawker Media's failure to deal with it adequately. Kennedy's piece supplies a lot more detail about the attack than other articles. The data breach was not limited to Gawker's user database; apparently ...
The Gawker network security breach is shaping up to be quite serious. PBS has a report with more details on the kind of information that was exposed when hackers (possibly from 4chan) broke into the Gawker database: Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies. Gawker Media, one ...
More than a million people's passwords might be at risk tonight, after the Gawker network was cracked wide open: Gawker hacked: Passwords of commenters compromised in ultimate security fail. If "Trust is the New Black," as Craig Newmark tweeted earlier this week, then Gawker just screwed the pooch. This kind ...
The software used by the pro-Wikileaks group "Anonymous" to attack Visa.com and other websites is known as "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" or LOIC; it was originally a stress-testing program designed to test how websites perform under high traffic loads. LOIC has since morphed into a DDOS attack tool that can ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Security, Secrecy, DoS Attack
In the wake of the Great Wikileaks Dump, the US military is making the use of removable media -- thumb drives, CDs, DVDs, etc. -- on devices connected to the Defense Department's SIPRNET network a court martial offense. Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Internet, Military, Security, Secrecy
Amazon.com has issued a statement about their decision to cancel the Amazon Web Services account of Wikileaks. There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate. There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Amazon.com, Cloud Computing, Internet
In addition to their retail business, Amazon.com is a major player in the "cloud" hosting market; their hosting service is known as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2. When Wikileaks' servers in Sweden were hammered by a DOS (distributed Denial Of Service) attack, Julian Assange opened an account with ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Amazon.com, Cloud Computing, Internet