Tag: DOSATTACK

Share Last November, Florida dentist Robert Thousand, Jr. was the victim of a denial-of-service attack where crooks initiated transfers totaling $399,000 from Thousand's Ameritrade retirement account. When Ameritrade attempted to call Thousand to confirm the transfer requests, Wired reports, the thief (or thieves) used several VoIP accounts and automated dialing software to tie up Thousand's ...

Last week's Twitter outage really put a damper on our traditional work routine, which involves wasting copious amounts of time sending and receiving 140-character morsels of information and pseudo-human contact. Some of us took the opportunity to rediscover the joys of being a productive member of society, while others, like TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, just decided to continuously update ...