Cloudflare Apologizes After Outage Takes Out Large Chunks of the Web Drew Wilson | July 21, 2020 Cloudflare recently suffered from an outage. In the process, it took out chunks of the web. The company has since apologized.
Cybersecurity Company Imperva Hit With Data Breach, Brutal Irony Drew Wilson | September 2, 2019 It’s a firm that specializes in securing information. Now, Imperva is dealing with the horrific irony that they themselves got breached.
FCC Admits They Were Never Hacked During Net Neutrality Debate Drew Wilson | August 10, 2018 Embattled American Regulator, the FCC, has admitted that their comment section was never actually hacked during net neutrality debate.
Largest DDOS Ever Recorded Hits GitHub, Is Quickly Thwarted Drew Wilson | March 5, 2018 Github is the latest website to be hit with a DDOS attack. Security researchers are pouring over the data and how the attack was thwarted.
Slashdot Back Online After Downtime Involving DDOS Attack Drew Wilson | March 4, 2018 Slashdot is known for inadvertent DDOS attacks. However, the website itself experienced downtime partly thanks to one.
TorrentFreak Briefly Goes Down After DDOS Attack Drew Wilson | January 12, 2015 There have been plenty of sites hit with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks lately. One of the latest hit with such an attack was TorrentFreak.
Breaking News: The Pirate Bay DDOS Attacker Revealed Drew Wilson | May 17, 2012 We’ve been following the news of the DDOS attack on Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks. Now, ZeroPaid has finally learned who was behind the attack.
An Explanation on What a DDOS Attack is For the CBC Drew Wilson | March 24, 2012 The NDP leadership convention has wrapped up in Canada. While a leader was selected, there was an underlying problem with the voting process itself. Since the CBC apparently did not have the resources to understand what a DDOS attack even was which appears to have been what happened to the NDP voting system, we here …
Anonymous Hacks myBART.gov, Database Exposed Drew Wilson | August 14, 2011 What started as a group of people wanting to protest has become an all out war over censorship. After earlier threats were made by Anonymous, it appears as though Anonymous did make good on their threat to target BART.
ZeroPaid the First Official News Site to Experience the ‘LulzSec Effect’? Drew Wilson | June 25, 2011 Earlier today, we reported on the story about the existence of LulzSec and Anonymous scaring an ISP into stalling web censorship. After publication, what happened after certainly wasn’t expected. It seems that what happened is now being called the “LulzSec Effect”.
