Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at the blog of prominent Russian political activist Alexey Navalny resulted in repeated downtime for the entire LiveJournal platform.According to security experts from Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab who have been keeping an eye on one of the botnets used, ... |
6 April 2011
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Five days from now, on March 26, participants from over 131 countries will turn off their lights for 60 minutes, during an event suggestively called Earth Hour. Organizers announce that this year's iteration of the event will boast more participants than ever before. Earth Hour was first held by 2.2 million peop... |
21 March 2011
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Some 15,000 activists gathered along a train line in Germany, to protest against the continued use of nuclear energy in the country's 17 nuclear power plants. A shipment of depleted fuel came from France, carrying some 17 tons of used pellets, to be disposed of in a special facility, at the salt mines in Gorlebe... |
10 November 2008
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Rising global warning awareness levels cause the most unusual forms of protests from worldwide teenagers. The most appropriate example for this is the Club du Neon organization in France, a group that aims at cutting back on emitted carbon levels through the powering down of neon signs that firms employ overnight. Th... |
10 November 2008
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