I made it up to San Francisco Saturday for the USF-hosted symposium titled The Toll Roads? The Legal and Political Debate Over Net Neutrality. I dropped in just to listen, as most of the folks there, and discussions on the agenda, were more of the legal, academic, economic, and even political science flavors. I did [...]
If you’ve been watching the tech news lately, you’ve seen that Anonymous has opened hostilities against the Church of Scientology. Among their many attacks are several DDoS attacks designed to disrupt their website. Here’s some quick numbers on the attacks. Looking specifically at attacks in the past week directed at AS7914 (registered to CSI – [...]
Last spring’s DDoS attacks against Estonia continue to play out. First, just a week or so ago an Estonian new site was hit with a sustained DDoS from a botnet. And today, news that an Estonian citizen was fined for his role in the DDoS attacks last spring: Authorities in Estonia fined a 20-year-old Tallinn [...]