Showing posts with label Hack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hack. Show all posts
DDoS attack Paypal costs £ 3.5 million
Paypal has about 3.5 million pounds (4.3 million euros) in the defense and armament against cyber attacks after the hacker group Anonymous in 2010 and 2011 attacked several websites, including MasterCard and Visa. They had refused to support Wikileaks and proceeded against internet piracy.
As prosecutor Sandip Patel reported the BBC, the attacks have seriously damaged Paypal. "More than 100 employees of PayPal's parent company eBay were employed for more than three weeks trying to eliminate the consequences of the attacks." Paypal also had to buy more software and hardware, to prepare themselves against similar attacks in the future. Paypal was attacked because the company refused in December 2010 to pay payments to the company founded by Julian Assange, the need for continued operation of fresh money.
Hackers put back lame Swedish banking and government servers
Hackers have apparently made true their threat concerted DDoS attacks against Swedish authorities and banks. On Friday afternoon, including the Internet sites of Sweden's central bank, the Reichstag, the police intelligence service Säpo, prosecutors and other authorities were temporarily paralyzed.
In a Youtube clip on behalf of the hacker movement Anonymous on Wednesday a large-scale action was announced. The reason, amongst others, the crackdown on the webhost Periquito was given by the Swedish police conducted earlier this week. PRQ server provides, among other services are available for Torrent and was probably to 2010, also the host of the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks. This police action is a "crime against freedom of information" was, it is executed in the clip, so now out of protest government websites and government-related organizations would be paralyzed. The votes that a report of aftonbladet.se collected from the institutions affected by the DDoS point, but points out that one would expect after the stresses of hard Anonymous threats to wider problems.
By the beginning of the week, hackers have repeatedly by massive DDoS attacks server in Sweden may block temporarily. Most of those affected, such as the Secret Service Säpo confirmed the attack as the cause of the disturbances. The police suspected at this stage a protest against the action called for by the Swedish government extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Observe, Hack and makeup under clear skies: announced OHM2013
After the summer before the summer. 2013 the next camping festival in the Dutch Geestmerambacht hackers will take place not far from Bergen to Zee. As an acronym, the organizers have decided to HIP, HAL, WTH and HAR for OHM: Observe, Hack, Make. Plans for 2013 have begun ohm.
Hacker camping festivals as events when the Evil Daystar appears in Europe a strong tradition. Alternate alternate German and Dutch volunteers from the organization of the elaborate spectacle. So found by Hacking at Random in 2009, the summer camp of the CCC in 2011 in Finowfurt. Now, the next festival will take place in the Netherlands.
The motto Observe, Hack, Make indicates the central themes: Monitors the monitor, hacking tools and makes their fabbt or things that bother monitoring circuits. The idea of Fabber projects already belonged to the HAR 2009 to the central themes of the camp. For the organization of the event, first working groups have been formed, the call to join in with activities or presentations to take place in October. The prices for outdoor fun are not set yet, the tickets will be limited according to the capacity of the site.
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