Did a Hacker Gang Create a Botnet Out of 3 Million Electric Toothbrushes?
The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a viral news story made the rounds earlier this week claiming it was so.…
That Electric Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Totally Fake
Did a hacker gang create a botnet out of 3 million electric toothbrushes? The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a…
OpenAI’s GPTs Go Live After Fending Off Hackers
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs were live for all users Thursday, around the same time as the company resolved a DDoS attack causing global outages for ChatGPT and its…
[UPDATED] Archive of Our Own Is Back Online After a Massive DDoS Attack
The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service…
Archive of Our Own Is Back Online After a Massive DDoS Attack
The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service…