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DDoS: The 'trump card' weapon of cyber warfare
Daily Sabah Last week, press headlines were focused on intense cyberattacks on Turkey. Starting in early December, Turkey saw its worst ever cyber threat for about two weeks. But on Friday, Dec. 25, the attacks grew more serious and many Turkish banks – like … |
The online activist group Anonymous said it took down the Trump Tower website on Friday after it warned presidential candidate Donald Trump about his statements on banning Muslims from entering the U.S.
The site was unavailable during early afternoon, New York time, and according to media reports had been down for about an hour earlier in the day. Around 9 a.m. Friday there, the Anonymous Twitter account @YourAnonNews posted tweets saying the group had taken down the site.
Trump Towers NY site taken down as statement against racism and hatred. https://t.co/n5ftLrOs1P (what you see is cloudflare offline backup)
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s unspeakably bigoted and un-American proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country – including U.S. citizens — is rightfully garnering most of the outrage and headlines since it spilled from his fevered mind yesterday. But what this dangerous demagogue had to say about the Internet deserves a fair amount of attention as well, if for no other reason than it’s scary as all hell:
“We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”
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Did you look at the picture atop this post and say, “Oh, no, not more Donald Trump?”
Are you using an iPhone?
If you answered yes to both questions, Julio Castillo has an iOS extension for you.
Called “Trump Trump” and featured on Product Hunt, the extension — as you may have guessed from the name — converts your iPhone into a no-Trump zone.
Castillo, co-founder of an independent game studio called furtiv Ltd., explains on Product Hunt that “Trump Trump” was inspired by positive reaction to a similar blocker for iOS aimed at expunging anything about the Kardashians.
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