Web Development Blog

Ever since the Sony PSN attack, groups have been hacking many web sites and online services on almost a daily basis. The attacks have mostly been Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDos Attacks) and actually hacking into servers and retrieving peoples personal information, and in many cases, publishing it publicly on the internet for all to see. I have been following this news since day one, and I know most of what has been done and who the major player are. What worries me is how little mainstream news coverage this is getting. The repeated attacks on Sony, the various government websites that have been shut down, and the literally tens of thousands of peoples email addresses and passwords posted online for all to see, and I haven’t heard a peep from mainstream media. What bothers me about this is how many victims there have been, and how easy it is to not be a victim of these attacks.

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