Lycos has just launched a new screensaver that attempts to disrupt, but not disable, websites used by spammers to sell products. The goal is to slow down access to these sites by implementing a bandwidth attack - a client-side denial of service attack (DoS). Client-side DoS attacks differ from server-side DoS attacks because in order [...]
November 27th 2004 
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Viruses and Worms that appear to be politically motivated are not new, but Stian recently informed me about (more here) a worm circulating in China that apparently links to or contains references to “A Survey of Chinese Peasants“.
A Survey of Chinese Peasants is an expos� on the inequality and injustice forced upon the Chinese [...]
October 20th 2004 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Wired covered the Hacktivism panel at 2600’s HOPE in New York City and spoke with Oxblood Ruffin of the cDc as well as Prof. Ron Deibert from the Citizen Lab. Apart from reaffirming that “Hacktivism isn’t found in the graffiti on defaced Web pages, in e-mail viruses bearing political screeds or in smug take-downs of [...]
July 14th 2004 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
I was invited to represent the Citizen Lab at HOPE in New York City by the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). HOPE is a convention hosted by 2600. The cDc organized a panel on hacktivism that included Sharon Hom from HRIC, Jagdish Parikh from HRW and Eric Grimm from the law firm CyberBrief. [...]
July 13th 2004 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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