Overnight, the official No on Prop 8 website was hit by a massive distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) essentially shutting down the site. According to the campaign, the attack originated from within California in addition to Texas, New Jersey and Georgia. more ›

The FBI is reportedly looking into a Santa Monica based internet company that crashed a San Francisco based internet television's network last weekend. MediaDefender, who is hired to prevent "alleged copyright infringement using peer-to-peer distribution" (think old-school Napster) performed a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on Revision3. more ›