On Sept 10th millions of GoDaddy customers websites and email accounts went down. GoDaddy apologized for the outage but says they weren't hacked, Anonymous takes credit. Anonymous claims to have taken down the sites by using a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS- is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the efforts of one or more people to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the internet) and bots. They claim the reason behind the attack was because GoDaddy supports censorship. However GoDaddy is claiming that this is false and that it was an series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables that caused the outage.
So what’s the truth? Is GoDaddy lying? Or is it this Anonymous person? In my opinion I think GoDaddy was hacked and they are too proud to admit it. But what does this mean for our security? Will this Anonymous strike again? One thing is for sure GoDaddy will have to update their system so this doesn't happen again. For more info on this topic and more please visit our blog regularly thanks for reading...

According to reports Samsung contracted bloggers from India and flew them to the IFA 2012 conference in Berlin. Two of the bloggers states that they made it clear to Samsung that they were to attend as reporters and did not want to do promotional work for the company. Samsung was ok with that. However a few weeks before the conference Samsung had some odd requests.

One being Samsung asked for the bloggers clothing measurements. Another was when they arrived they were give Samsung shirt s and told that they would be at a Samsung booth for the whole conference promoting Samsung products to the media. A short while after speaking with a PR rep about his problem he received a phone call from Samsung ‘You can either be a part of this and wear the uniform, or you’ll have to get your own tickets back home and handle your hotel stay from the moment this call ends’.

Minutes later he got another call from Samsung saying ‘that our flights on the 6th have been cancelled, and that they’re bringing us back on the 1st instead. But this is only if, and only if, we agreed to wear at least the samsung branded shirt at the unpacked event, and not blog about any of this incident.’ In the end they did go to the Samsung event in the shirts but did not promote any products and did not have more time to see the rest of the events.

Samsung issued a statement on Sept 3 blaming a coordinator from the tech blogger program and said this is all a misunderstanding between Samsung coordinators and the bloggers and that they were not properly briefed on the nature of the Samsung activities at the IFA event.

What a horrible thing to do to people I think Samsung is a terrible company first copying Apple now this.
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