The loosely organized hacking group Anonymous is making its case to justify the series of denial of service attacks it launched against companies that had discontinued service for WikiLeaks.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are harmless, according to Newcastle man Matthew George, who was charged for his role in the Anonymous group's bid to crash federal government websites ...

Can the Anonymous hacktivist collective hack the First Amendment? A petition filed this week with the White House seeks to decriminalize distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, making them a ...

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Turkey responded to the hacking group Anonymous with 32 arrests following attacks on government websites, according to the country’s state-run news agency. The Anadolu Agency wrote the alleged ...

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed ...

The hacker collective known as “Anonymous” has always been controversial. With the massive effort to retaliate for the takedown of file-sharing site MegaUpload.com, though, it may have cross the line ...

Nissan temporarily took down its websites earlier this week following a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous. According to a report by ...

Consider 2011 to be the year that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks went mainstream. Who's responsible? Blame Anonymous, according to a new report released Monday by security vendor Radware ...

US authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals linked to a significant distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cybercrime network. The charges come after an international investigation into the ...

"Anonymous" successfully took down the RIAA's Web site via a DDoS attack on Friday, although the attack was launched an hour later than expected. The group, which also advertised its actions on the ...