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YouSendIt.com’s Founder Indicted of DoS attacks
US authorities accuse Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of file sharing site YouSendIt.com as being the one responsible for a series denial of service attacks on the site (DoS). The man who founded the large-files-transferring service back in 2004 and left the company two years later has been charged on four counts of mail fraud. Shaikh, allegedly prevented the YouSendIt.com’s services from being accessible to users four times between 2008-2009 when he managed to overpower the site’s servers by using the ApacheBench web server performance monitoring app.
Continue reading »Twitter Suspends Researcher Over Security Warning
Twitter suspended the account of a security researcher after he posted a message to his followers warning them about a threat, according to ZDnet. The company has since restored his account, but has left the researcher perplexed about why it occurred in the first place. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, was told he was suspended for posting a message containing the URL to a site containing malware.
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