US Government Want Wikileaks.org Twitter Accounts Monday, January 10, 2011, 10:02:29 AM In a bid to crack down on Wikileaks.org the US government has issued a subpoena to microblogging site Twitter.com for the personal details of the registered Wikileaks and Anonymous accounts users. In order to do so, the Government had to provide evidence that the want for such information was “”relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation” which was unsurprisingly accepted. The Government reportedly asked for the details of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Pfc Manning who stole the cables, Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp and US programmer Jacob Appelbaum, both of whom have previously worked with Wikileaks and Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir.

In this four-part series, we’ll explore how businesses can build and manage their online reputations Part One: Managing your Web reputation In early December, a Canadian Web hosting company found out the hard way just what happens when the Internet turns on a business.

A real-time performance graph of 4chan following DDoS attacks, as posted on Netcraft (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Community site 4chan ( www.4chan.org ) suffered another distributed denial of service attack Monday, according to a report by Web analytics firm Netcraft . Many of the individuals in pro-WikiLeaks hackers group Anonymous are also members of 4chan’s boards. Despite this, there has been no evidence that the current attack is connected to any of the previous DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous

‘Anonymous’ Continue to Defend Wikileaks.org Tuesday, January 04, 2011, 11:25:23 AM Although the heat around the Wikileaks.org has started to die down, internet hacktivists and DDoS specialists Anonymous are certainly alive and kicking. The Tunisian and Zimbabwean Governments received a New Years presents from Anonymous who attacked roughly seven sites on January 1st. On their blog Anonymous say how “Julian Assange and Wikileaks have only served as catalysts for a revolution that has been long overdue” and that the Governments had been targeted for their “an outrageous level of censorship”

4chan Down From Ironic DDoS Attack Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 9:39:44 AM Hacktivists 4chan got a taste of their own medicine yesterday when a DDoS attack knocked their site out in the early hours of the morning. The site is most recently know for being the birth place of hacking organisation Anonymous who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks in support of Wikileaks.org. MasterCard, PayPal and Visa are just a few of the websites who fell victim to the attacks

First it was WikiLeaks. Now, several mirror sites appear to be in the crosshairs, as another Web host, this time SiteGround, suspended accounts claiming the sites violated the Terms of Service, engaged in illegal activity, and were at risk for potential DDoS attacks. According to a post by Electronic Frontier Foundation s Marcia Hofmann on Dec.

Wikileaks.org and CableGate Mirrors to be Taken Down Over DDoS Attack Fears Thursday, December 23, 2010, 12:02:41 PM The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported yesterday that after the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.org was taken down; its successive mirrors are next in the firing line. Hosting provider SiteGround.com has suspended the account of a user who was mirroring some of the 250,000 leaked CableGate documents on his own website. SiteGround claimed that, by doing so, the user ‘severely’ violated its terms of use and acceptable use policy.