Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A Bad Year For The Las Vegas Sun, Brian Greenspun

It's been a bad year for the Las Vegas Sun.  The paper is about to go belly up, their editor, Brian Greenspun has gone off the deep end and lately, the Greenspun Group had a TV station shut down because lack of revenue.
Now, the Las Vegas Sun web site was hacked.
From the Sun: A cyberattack launched by an unknown source disabled the Greenspun Media Group websites lasvegassun.com, lasvegasweekly.com and vegasinc.com for several hours today.
GMG company officials said the disruption lasted from about 6:20 until 10 a.m.
Officials said the sites were targeted in an attack known as “distributed denial of services,” or DDoS, in which networks of computers known as “botnets” overwhelm servers that maintain sites.
Botnets are controlled by an attacker and operated remotely, typically without the knowledge of their owners, and can be made up of hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.   http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/oct/15/las-vegas-sun-website-sister-sites-targeted-cybera/
I guess this is what it will look like if the Sun goes belly up.
Miss anything?
Not I.

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