Charity Gaming Marathon Site Taken Down by Hackers [Update: It's Back]
So stoked http://t.co/2MQRKhKwr6 is back up. Thanks for all the support, everyone! #extralife #ftk
— Extra Life (@ExtraLife4Kids) November 2, 2013
Top Smash Bros. Fan Sites Knocked Offline, Hackers Blamed
Having a single website go down isn't so unusual. But in this case, bizarrely, the Smash Bros community has allegedly become a target for multiple distributed denial of service attacks (which disable a website's server with high traffic). Meaning, we're not just dealing with one downed website. We're dealing with…
EVE Online publisher CCP said in a statement that "at no time was customer data compromised or accessible," during a DDoS attack
What A DDOS Attack On A Website/Game Actually Looks Like
A favourite tool of hackers and other forms of online troublemaker, the DDOS - Distributed Denial of Service - attack is something we see a lot of in video games, whether it be people trying to take down a company's website or even, in some cases, crash the games themselves
Minecraft Apparently Under Siege By Angry Addicts Demanding More…
Addictive indie computer game Minecraft was knocked off it's little block wheels yesterday apparently by a group of self-identifying disenfranchised Minecraft players demanding more updates from the game's creator.