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FBI Investigates After More than a Dozen Sites Hacked by Group Claiming to be ISIS

Multiple sites in the US were hijacked this weekend by hackers claiming to be affiliated with ISIS. By Sunday evening Europe was affected as well with a site in Dublin being attacked. So far, investigators suspect a hoax rather than actual ISIS affiliated attacks and say that no information was… Continue reading

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Amazon Sites in Europe Suffer Outages, AWS Customers Not Affected: Netcraft

Amazon retail sites and streaming video services in Europe suffered a pair of outages on Sunday and Monday, Downdetector.co.uk reports. Sites affected included amazon.co.uk, amazon.de and amazon.fr, but not US-hosted amazon.com or any of the thousands of AWS customers, according to Netcraft. Continue reading

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Decision to Pull Super Bowl Ad Reflects Newer, Softer Side of GoDaddy

GoDaddy has reacted to the outcry over its Super Bowl commercial by pulling the advertisement from Sunday’s big game. Continue reading

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Former Mt. Gox CEO Launches Web Hosting Service Forever.net

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès recently launched a web hosting service called Forever.net, according to a report on Sunday by the Bitcoin News Service. Continue reading

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Insecure Passwords at Hosting Provider Behind OpenSSL Website Defacement

Insecure passwords at the web hosting provider for OpenSSL, the open source toolkit implementing SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 protocols, were to blame for an attack on Sunday where hackers defaced its homepage. Continue reading

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