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Rackspace Makes DDoS Attack Recovery

After several hours of disruption, public cloud hosting provider Rackspace recovered from a Distributed Denial of Service attack which began flooding its DNS servers early this week at its Northern Virginia, Chicago, and London data centers. Continue reading

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The Pirate Bay Site Shows Signs of Life After Being Taken Down Two Weeks Ago

The Pirate Bay is back online, in a limited sense, displaying a waving pirate flag and counter less than a month after it was knocked offline by a Swedish police raid. Thepiratebay.se began displaying the pirate flag on Sunday, and subtle changes since have provided fuel for speculation that the torrent site may soon be up and fully functioning again. Continue reading

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North Korean Internet Down Amid Sony Hack Accusations

The Internet in North Korea is down on Monday after intermittent outages throughout the weekend, according to several reports on Monday. Continue reading

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Recent Microsoft Azure Outage Came Down to Human Error: Report

Microsoft offered more details this week about the cause of the Microsoft Azure outage in November that caused downtime for thousands of sites, including Microsoft’s own msn.com and Windows Store. Continue reading

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DDoS Attack Targets Gaming Customer of Swedish ISP Telia

Swedish ISP Telia claims that the DDoS attack it experienced on Tuesday night through Wednesday was directed at a gaming company customer. Several reports on Thursday morning suggest that customer was Electronic Arts (EA). Continue reading

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