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.entry-header 9:44 AM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons Amidst reports that occupancy rates at Trump Hotels have slipped this election season, the company has announced that new brand hotels will no longer bear the Trump name. The newest line of luxury hotels, geared towards millennials, will be called Scion, the company said. “We…
Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item…
They led to changes in medical treatment and a scramble for answers; some patients weren’t told for months about unreliable results By Christopher Weaver Sheri Ackert worried she might have a new tumor. Steve Hammons stopped taking his blood-thinning medication. Kimberly Toy emptied the pasta and sweets from her cupboards and said: “I can’t believe this…
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly investigating who is behind the DDoS attack that took down much of the internet, including Twitter and Spotify, on Friday. The White House called it a “criminal act,” according to Reuters. Read more For much of Friday, many internet users, mostly on the US East Coast, suffered through…
Is the internet acting weird today? It’s not just you. A major cyberattack rendered websites and online services inaccessible across the East Coast on Friday morning. The problems later spread across the United States as a result of a second wave of attacks. Dyn, a company that manages Domain Name System (DNS) servers for a…
.entry-header Edit this post on GitHub. 192.30.253.113 github.com 151.101.44.133 assets-cdn.github.com 54.236.140.90 collector.githubapp.com 192.30.253.116 api.github.com 192.30.253.122 ssh.github.com 151.101.44.133 avatars0.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars1.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars2.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars3.githubusercontent.com 151.101.92.162 registry.npmjs.com 52.27.70.152 npmjs.com 104.244.42.65 twitter.com 151.101.65.69 stackoverflow.com Source: Developer /etc/hosts .entry-content October 21, 2016James DiGioia DDoS, via bookmarklet .entry-meta .entry-header Image: AP According to a new report from Reuters, the…
Edit this post on GitHub. 192.30.253.113 github.com 151.101.44.133 assets-cdn.github.com 54.236.140.90 collector.githubapp.com 192.30.253.116 api.github.com 192.30.253.122 ssh.github.com 151.101.44.133 avatars0.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars1.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars2.githubusercontent.com 151.101.44.133 avatars3.githubusercontent.com 151.101.92.162 registry.npmjs.com 52.27.70.152 npmjs.com 104.244.42.65 twitter.com 151.101.65.69 stackoverflow.com Source: Developer /etc/hosts
Image: AP According to a new report from Reuters, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are investigating the massive distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) hitting the DNS provider Dyn. That attack, which is still ongoing, has left websites as Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and others struggling to stay up. The sheer scale…
Earlier this month a hacker released the source code for Mirai, a malware strain that was used to launch a historically large 620 Gbps denial-of-service attack against this site in September. That attack came in apparent retribution for a story here which directly preceded the arrest of two Israeli men for allegedly running an online attack for hire service called…
Criminals this morning massively attacked Dyn, a company that provides core Internet services for Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Reddit and a host of other sites, causing outages and slowness for many of Dyn’s customers. Twitter is experiencing problems, as seen through the social media platform Hootsuite. In a statement, Dyn said that this morning, October 21, Dyn…