Tag: Reddit

Someone just used the Mirai botnet to knock an entire country offline

Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:30 pm25 Comments

Mirai just knocked an entire country offline…

Supporters of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange claim responsibility for knocking major sites offline

Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:22 pmSaturday, October 22, 201661 Comments

Supporters of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange have claimed responsibility for taking down major websites Friday…

Internet outage: A massive DDOS attack against Dyn DNS is causing havoc online

Friday, October 21, 2016 12:01 pmSaturday, October 22, 201647 Comments

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against DynDNS is causing havoc online…

Apple and Dropbox oppose controversial U.S. ‘cybersecurity’ bill

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3:01 pmWednesday, October 21, 20159 Comments

Apple and Dropbox said Tuesday that they do not support a controversial cybersecurity bill…

Westboro Baptist Church to picket Apple, Google, others; calls Steve Jobs ‘a rich, proud fool who now inhabits hell’

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:45 pmWednesday, July 30, 201484 Comments

The Westboro Baptist Church is heading out on a ‘God Hates the Media Tour’…

How a Reddit user convinced Tim Cook to change Apple’s on-hold music

Monday, July 14, 2014 11:29 amMonday, July 14, 201435 Comments

I once sent Tim an email about the quality of music while on hold with Apple…

My Secret Santa this year was Bill Gates

Friday, December 20, 2013 5:01 pmFriday, December 20, 201317 Comments

A Reddit user named Rachel was shocked this week when she found out…