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The DDoS Attack Against CNN.com

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2008-04-22 19:30:53 by HASH0x8b2d1ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...CNN.com, whether successful or not in terms of the perspective of complete knock-out, which didn't happen, is a perfect and perhaps the most recent example of a full scale people's information warfare in action . Utilizing the bandwidth of the over 200 million nationalism minded Chinese Internet users, can greatly outpace any botnet's...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos-ing cnn, cnn, ddos people, warfare, information warfare attack, attack, ddos attack, chinese script kiddies
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Hacktivists Waging People's Information Warfare Against CNN

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2008-04-22 02:25:00 by HASH0x8b20ee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...CNN.com piece of malware. Both of these coordinated incidents greatly illustrate what people's information warfare, and the malicious culture of participation is all about. The PSYOPS anti-cnn.com initiative is maturing into a central coordination point for recruiting DDoS participants on a nationalism level. Some info on hackcnn.com , the...
 
Tags: cnn, cnn sub-station, flood cnn, sports web site, site, psyops anti-cnn, contact address sports, contact, sports
 
 
 
 
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CNN Daily Top 10 Videos Spam

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2008-08-05 18:50:01 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...CNN Top 10" emails through over the last day or so. Here's just two of the many, many mails I've had through to various mailboxes If you opened up any of the mails, you'd have seen this Click to Enlarge The first clue that something might have been amiss is the strangeness of some of the titles ("Michael Jackson sued by his own...
 
Tags: cnn, cnn top, michael jacksons dog, michael jackson, click, dog, michael jackson sued, cnn videos, enlarge
 
 
 
 
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CNN Custom Alerts Spam

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2008-08-10 17:28:40 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...CNN Spam from a few days ago. Here, the emails take the form of "custom alerts Click to Enlarge I've seen two types of this mail - one links to a genuine CNN article from the headline text (with the smaller link underneath leading to an infection site), the other simply links to the infection site from both clickable links. As before,...
 
Tags: links, clickable links, simply links, simply, custom alerts, infection site, fake cnn spam, genuine cnn article, huge spam wave
 
 
 
 
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Chinese hackers poised for anti-CNN attack over the weekend

2008-04-18 11:21:19 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An announced denial-of-service attack against CNN is allegedly planned by Chinese hackers incensed over world scrutiny of the crackdown in Tibet
 
Tags: chinese hackers, world scrutiny, attack, cnn, crackdown, tibet, allegedly
 
 
 
 
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CNN cyberattack called off

2008-04-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Perhaps it's the 21st-century equivalent of the club no one goes to because it's too crowded: The Chinese hacker group that called for a denial-of-service attack against CNN over the weekend called it off because, they said, too many people knew about it
 
Tags: chinese hacker, 21st-century equivalent, cnn, people, weekend, attack, club
 
 
 
 
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CNN cyberattack called off

2008-04-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A planned cyberattack against CNN's Web site fizzled out Saturday as the group backing the event called it off
 
Tags: cnn, cyberattack, web site, saturday, event
 
 
 
 
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CNN site hit by China attack

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
After being called off Friday, the on-again, off-again cyber attack against CNN's Web site again picked up steam early this week, according to network security analysts
 
Tags: network security analysts, off-again cyber attack, cnn, web site, week, friday, steam, on-again
 
 
 
 
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Watching CNN can ruin your day!

2008-04-28 12:45:21 by HASH0x8b2cb38 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...CNN on in the background to keep up on the world. However, I have to say that it is just too damn depressing. A sample of today's news Gas prices continue to go up about a penny or two a day, over 30 cents in last few weeks Oil hit new highs Credit card companies are raising interest rates and fees drastically Food staples like wheat, rice,...
 
Tags: gas prices continue, credit card companies, home prices remain, day, foreclosures remain, oil hit, star wars, food staples, crazy nut
 
 
 
 
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Massive faux-CNN spam blitz uses legit sites to deliver fake Flash

2008-08-06 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News