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WordPress DDoS Attack Adds to Growing Cyber Wars

Popular open source content management system WordPress was targeted by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack today, TechCrunch reports. It wasn't easy for TechCrunch to post that information, as TechCrunch runs on WordPress. (The site, and many other WordPress sites, are working again.) WordPress founder...

WikiLeaks Website Under Hacker Attack

(Nov. 30) -- The WikiLeaks whistle-blower website is under a powerful attack by computer hackers. Again. Today, the site was bumped out of service to U.S. and European users by a "distributed denial of service attack," or DDOS, a common method used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites, The Associated Press...

Massive Cyberattack Paralyzes Myanmar Days Before Election

(Nov. 4) -- A massive cyberattack paralyzed Myanmar's Internet infrastructure, less than a week before the country's first election in 20 years. The attack began late last month and has overwhelmed the country's Internet infrastructure, closing Internet cafes and making it impossible to communicate with IP addresses...

Background on denial of service

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

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