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Microsoft Confirmed June Outlook Outage Was Caused By DDoS Attacks

Earlier this month, a group known as Anonymous Sudan took credit for a service outage that disrupted access to Outlook, OneDrive and a handful of other Microsoft online services, Engadget reported. After initially sharing little information about the incident, the company confirmed late Friday had been the target of a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. Microsoft posted information titled: “Microsoft

Hacker Gets 27 Months in Prison for DDoS Attacks

A few years ago, a hacker decided to be a jerk right around Christmas time. He launched DDoS attacks against several gaming companies. The purpose seemed to be to prevent children (and adults) who received new video games and/or consoles as gifts from being able to use them. This mean-spirited hacker has now been sentenced to 27 months in prison.

PlayStation and Xbox Live Experiencing Outages

There's a reason why you had difficulties accessing Sony's online PlayStation store and Microsoft's Xbox Live network during Christmas. Each has been experiencing disruptions from a DDoS attack that began on Christmas Eve, continued through Christmas Day, and is still ongoing. The group that has claimed responsibility for the disruptions is the same one that has a history of destroying

GNC-2011-03-03 #652 We have a Winner

A winner is announced in the show today congrats to Anthony Y for winning and Apple TV. Big thank you to the 32 people that participated in this round of contributions and the 14 new insiders that are now supporting the show. We will giveaway another cool product in the next couple of weeks. As an insider you are automatically