Volunteers aid hackers in worsening problem: research
(NEWSER) - In a sort of cyber-censorship, those who disagree with a human rights group have an increasingly easy answer: Hack its website. Hackers are increasingly targeting such groups, researchers find, using DDoS attacks to inundate a website with data in order to shut it down—sometimes for weeks. Between August 2009 and September 2010, 140 such attacks targeted more than 280 sites, and it’s likely to get worse, the Harvard researchers tell the BBC. More»
