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Cyber attack knocks Dutch government websites out for hours
Dutch government websites were paralysed for several hours overnight after a mass cyber attack which targeted several ministerial sites, a spokesman said on Wednesday. “The government’s sites have been the target of a DDoS attack since last night around 8:00 pm (1800 GMT),” Robert Wester told AFP, referring to a…
Banking giant HSBC websites hit by ‘large scale’ cyber attack
Banking giant HSBC said Friday some of its websites had been hit by a “large scale” cyber attack that disrupted online services, but it assured customers that their data were not compromised. The bank said in a statement that HSBC servers came under a “large scale denial of service attack”…
Twitter sets off jitters as ‘bug’ hits site
Twitter said a “cascading bug” caused outages affecting millions of users of the wildly popular site, and dismissed claims of a hacker attack. The outage led to a barrage of complaints and comments, some serious and others ironic, which the company said underscored “how critical Twitter has become.” The on-again-off-again…
Google may dump Chamber of Commerce over ‘Protect IP’ bill
The so-called “Protect IP” bill, which is nominally intended to halt digital piracy and the online sale of counterfeit goods by allowing US officials to block allegedly infringing websites, has run into opposition from many quarters, including human rights activists. Now it seems that the powerful United States Chamber of…
Apparent Chinese hackers launch DDoS attacks against Change.org
In an apparent response to an internationally popular petition on Change.org, hackers launched a coordinated DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on Change.org early Monday from inside China, spokesman Benjamin Joffe-Walt said in a blog post. Change.org believes the hackers were spurred by the popular petition calling for the release…
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