Popular blogging platform Tumblr is back online after an outage that lasted over a day. Rumors flew that the site had been the victim of a DDoS(Dedicated Denial of Service) attack spearheaded by infamous hacking group 4chan, but the company’s blog blamed the outage on database issues. The company says their infrastructure was simply unprepared more »

Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown. They simply called it “unexpected downtime.” In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process. This frustrated many developers and users of third party services, many of which had more »

Even if you do your best to ignore the two websites, there was simply no missing the denial-of-service attacks on Twitter and Facebook this past week. What you may not know is why the attacks were brought about. The easy answer is it’s the work of a hacker with access to a botnet that wanted more »

Aliens? North Koreans? Fernando Valenzuela? At this point in time, we are unsure who is behind the DDoS attacks today on major social networking sites. Both Twitter and Facebook suffered from these attacks. Twitter was down for most of the morning while Facebook was able to stay afloat. According to Wired’s Epicenter blog, “‘Earlier this more »

Although many previously thought that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks last week originated in North Korea, the latest reports indicate that the source was actually the United Kingdom.

This is according to a study done by a Vietnamese computer security company, Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS). In a statement posted on the company’s website, senior security director, Nguyen Minh Duc, said that they managed to gain control of two of the eight servers involved in the attacks, and by doing so, were able to pinpoint the master server. That server has an IP address in the 195.90.118.x range, which is registered to Global Digital Broadcast in the U.K.

Welcome to the pilot episode of Gadgetell’s InterrupTech. Here’s how this works: every Monday we get you caught up on the most important tech news with a bit of analysis. Since we don’t want to waste your time, we’re on a timer. When the time’s up, we switch topics.

In this first episode we tackle Google’s Chrome OS, Michael Jackson and the internet, Microsoft’s loss of market share, the latest security attacks, and Amazon’s new cell phone site.

Stories are starting to fly around the Internet about the latest worm attacking Windows PCs. Why is this one gaining such mass attention? Because of the mystery surrounding it. The Conficker worm has supposedly already infected millions of PCs around the world and it has plenty of people worried what exactly it is up to. What is known is that the next scheduled “update” for the worm is ironically enough, April Fools’ Day. Look at that, malicious hackers with a sense of humor. Apparently though, Microsoft is not seeing any humor in the situation, given that they offered up a $250,000 bounty for the creator.