The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack on Wednesday, problems continue

The Pirate Bay, which is the most popular file-sharing website on the Internet, was shut down for part of the day on Wednesday. The site shut down in response to a DDoS attack.

The Pirate Bay was not available for several hours after the system shut itself down to improve its internal system, in order to fight a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack. While this was apparently a temporary problem, Digital Journal cannot access the website this morning, which means that the attack is possibly continuing... read more.

RT's website suffering a massive DDoS attack

Many people from all over the world are complaining on RT's Facebook page that they cannot access the RT News website. Turns out they are now suffering a massive DDoS attack.

This morning, it is impossible to access the RT News website at RT.com.

You either get a message saying the website is currently available, or it just hangs on and on trying to connect.

Initially RT tweeted that their website was experiencing technical problems, and that they didn't know the cause.... read more.

TrapWire: U.S. cities under total surveillance? (video)

In the latest release of Stratfor files by WikiLeaks, details about the secret surveillance program known as TrapWire have been revealed. Now WikiLeaks is suffering a sustained DDoS attack.

Shortly after the release was made by WikiLeaks, as reported on Digital Journal, their website and its mirror sites went under a sustained DDoS attack, allegedly by a group called AntiLeaks.

Despite the WikiLeaks website being down, and people unable to access the newly leaked information, Anonymous, the loose-knit group of hacktivists has taken up the story and has launched an operation to expose the truth about the TrapWire program and the companies that it is connected to... read more.