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Showing posts with label computer hackers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer hackers. Show all posts
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
i knew something was up
i tried to post a tweet all afternoon and couldn't. i did indeed post something to facebook, BUT IT WASN'T EASY. i kept getting error messages but i persisted and it finally worked.
oh, i tweet as
@aroseisarose
Online Attack Silences Twitter for Much of Day
By JENNA WORTHAM
Twitter, the popular microblogging site, was out of service much of the day Thursday as it worked to defend itself against a Web attack, but service appeared to have been restored by late evening.
oh, i tweet as
@aroseisarose
Online Attack Silences Twitter for Much of Day
By JENNA WORTHAM
Twitter, the popular microblogging site, was out of service much of the day Thursday as it worked to defend itself against a Web attack, but service appeared to have been restored by late evening.
Many of Twitter’s 45 million legitimate visitors were unable to use the service for hours. Analysts characterized the disruption as a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers overwhelm a Web site by sending it a deluge of junk requests, and one suggested the attack might have originated in Russia or Georgia.
Facebook and Google fended off similar attacks on Thursday.
Most computer security analysts did not cite a specific source of the attack on Twitter.........Friday, July 17, 2009
some very good advice
don't think YOU are safe. you are not. everyone is at risk. i know this from experience.
BE SAFE
Twitter's security breach: a reminder to choose and use web passwords wisely.
Someone who goes by the name of "Hacker Croll" breached the cloud computing accounts of one or more Twitter employees, and obtained access to extremely sensitive personal and corporate documents. I won't link to the documents, but they're floating around. I first read about the breach on the New York Times "Bits" blog.
BE SAFE
Twitter's security breach: a reminder to choose and use web passwords wisely.
Someone who goes by the name of "Hacker Croll" breached the cloud computing accounts of one or more Twitter employees, and obtained access to extremely sensitive personal and corporate documents. I won't link to the documents, but they're floating around. I first read about the breach on the New York Times "Bits" blog.
This seems as good a time as any to remind everyone about choosing and managing passwords wisely. The New York Times' Gadgetwise blog has a helpful post up today along those lines. Snip:
The lesson Twitter employees are learning the hard way is a lesson for us all. If you use cloud services for personal or work purposes, you need to:* Use strong passwords
* Use a different password for each of your accounts
* Pick tough security questions
* Keep your passwords and answers to security questions to yourself.........
Thursday, January 08, 2009
not good news
i dunno, i just always imagined IF hackers had a political bent, it would lean rather to the left. guess i was wrong (again)
anyway, this is a shame. i know what it's like to lose data from a personal and a work perspective. as a matter of fact, i just had to set my laptop back to the factory settings (on monday). oh a shout out to dell on that. the customer service rep i had was WONDERFUL. and no, i didn't pay an additional $100+ dollars to have a 'north american' answer my call. i don't give a shite WHO answers my call as long as 1) they know what they're doing 2) they have manners (as with everything in my life it IS manners manners manners)/customer service skills 3) i can understand them. accents don't bother me. i DO have to understand though otherwise all is lost.
i was unable to do any backups (but i DO have an external hard drive so m0st of my music and pictures and documents were- thank the goddess -saved). i lost all my bookmarks and some programs i had (now if i can only find those installation discs)
(oh, p.s. i wouldn't think it was right if conservative blogs were hacked either)
Hackers take down ring of key progressive blogs
Nick Cargo and Mike Sheehan
Several major blogs were in jeopardy after a Tuesday hack of their software provider had its owner ready to throw in the towel.
According to SoapBlox owner Paul Preston, the attack on its servers--which prompted SoapBlox's Internet service provider to shut it down--was connected to a shadowy group called Astalavista, which claimed credit for the attack in the site's altered source code.
"Consider this the 'We're Out of Business' post," Preston wrote on Wednesday morning. "Most of the servers have been taken off line because they were being used to hack and exploit other websites. The hackers install this crap on servers after they get in. SoapBlox's ISP then takes the servers off line... It was a good ride, but it's over."
The affected blogs include American Liberalism Project, BeThink, Blue Hampshire, Blue Jersey, Blue Mass. Group, Minnesota Progressive Project, My Left Wing, Never In Our Names, Pam's House Blend, RadicalRuss, Swing State Project and West Michigan Rising and other mostly state-focused political blogs of note..................
anyway, this is a shame. i know what it's like to lose data from a personal and a work perspective. as a matter of fact, i just had to set my laptop back to the factory settings (on monday). oh a shout out to dell on that. the customer service rep i had was WONDERFUL. and no, i didn't pay an additional $100+ dollars to have a 'north american' answer my call. i don't give a shite WHO answers my call as long as 1) they know what they're doing 2) they have manners (as with everything in my life it IS manners manners manners)/customer service skills 3) i can understand them. accents don't bother me. i DO have to understand though otherwise all is lost.
i was unable to do any backups (but i DO have an external hard drive so m0st of my music and pictures and documents were- thank the goddess -saved). i lost all my bookmarks and some programs i had (now if i can only find those installation discs)
(oh, p.s. i wouldn't think it was right if conservative blogs were hacked either)
Hackers take down ring of key progressive blogs
Nick Cargo and Mike Sheehan
Several major blogs were in jeopardy after a Tuesday hack of their software provider had its owner ready to throw in the towel.
According to SoapBlox owner Paul Preston, the attack on its servers--which prompted SoapBlox's Internet service provider to shut it down--was connected to a shadowy group called Astalavista, which claimed credit for the attack in the site's altered source code.
"Consider this the 'We're Out of Business' post," Preston wrote on Wednesday morning. "Most of the servers have been taken off line because they were being used to hack and exploit other websites. The hackers install this crap on servers after they get in. SoapBlox's ISP then takes the servers off line... It was a good ride, but it's over."
The affected blogs include American Liberalism Project, BeThink, Blue Hampshire, Blue Jersey, Blue Mass. Group, Minnesota Progressive Project, My Left Wing, Never In Our Names, Pam's House Blend, RadicalRuss, Swing State Project and West Michigan Rising and other mostly state-focused political blogs of note..................
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