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An Anonymous video was released on June 8, 2012, claiming that an attack against the government of Cyprus would take place due to reasons of government corruption, media misinformation and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [175] On June 26, DDoS attacks took place against 47 websites of the Republic of Cyprus, which were taken down for 15 ...
On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America. [ 3][ 4] The groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility ...
Napster, Inc. ). This was the first time a major musical act publicly went against allegedly illegal file sharing. In February 2000, some of the Internet's most reliable sites were rendered nearly unreachable by distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS) attacks. Yahoo! took the first hit on February 7, 2000.
Due to its status as a user-created games platform, Roblox has a variety of popular games. As of May 2020, the most popular games on Roblox had over 10 million monthly active players each. As of August 2020, at least 20 games had been played more than one billion times, and at least 5,000 have been played more than one million times. [ 104 ]
After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent members of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud.
Roblox Corporation has been ranked on Pocket Gamer.biz ' s top lists of mobile game developers, placing sixth in 2018, [29] eighth in 2019, [30] and sixth in 2020. [31] Fortune featured it as one of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, placing it sixteenth in 2019 and fortieth in 2021.
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [ 1] At the time, Windows computers often hid the latter ...
The virus destroys all executable files on infected machines upon every occurrence of Friday the 13th (except Friday 13 November 1987 making its first trigger date May 13, 1988). Jerusalem caused a worldwide epidemic in 1988. [18] November: The SCA virus, a boot sector virus for Amiga computers, appears. It immediately creates a pandemic virus ...