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A Taste of Its Own Medicine? 4chan Down Due to DDoS Attack
4chan, the infamously crude message board, is currently down due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and has been since the early morning hours according to the site's Twitter account. The attack comes just a day after similar attacks slowed down Bank of America's Web services.
Bank of America Suffers DDoS Slowdowns
Today the Bank of America reportedly experienced slowdowns based on distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks.
The hactivist group Anonymous, Tweeting as Anony_Ops, announced the attack with the hashtag #OperationBOA.
Is This How Bank of America Is Preparing For the Next WikiLeaks Release?
Prior to his arrest, WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange hinted that the next batch of documents released would not be secret government information, but rather would implicate a major American bank. Assange has never confirmed which bank, but rumor and speculation have pointed to Bank of America as the target.
In a defensive move, Bank of America now seems to be buying up domains for its senior executives and board members, including their names along with "sucks" or "blows." Domain Name Wire reports hundred of domain name registrations on Dec. 17 alone. For example, the company registered a number of domains for CEO Brian Moynihan: brianmoynihanblows.com, brianmoynifansucks.com and so on. It also nabbed the .net and .org versions of several of these names as well.
Ditching RIM: Dell, Bank of America, Citigroup Saying Farewell to Blackberry
RIM's Blackberry smartphones are no longer the default choice for corporate employees, a pair of stories released today seem to imply. Computer manufacturer Dell is planning to move its 25,000 employees from RIM smartphones to its own Dell Venue Pro - a phone running the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. Later, the company will permit Android phones as an alternative.
And Dell isn't the only RIM-switcher making headlines today, either. Two of the biggest U.S. banks, Bank of America and Citigroup, are seriously considering the iPhone, it's being reported.
Mobile Banking on the Rise
Earlier this month we reported on a survey that revealed that 48% of online banking customers between the ages of 18 and 34 would be interested in using "secure gadgets for personal banking" if their bank offered them. More than a quarter of bank customers would consider switching to another bank if it took better advantage of web 2.0 technologies. While that survey was flawed in some ways, there is another access point to banking information that customer may want more than secure widgets: mobile.
Writer's Strike Helps Online Ad Sales
Even with the home mortgage meltdown in the US theatening to pull the econonmy into a recession, analysts feel confident that the online ad market will remain healthy. "We believe the secular growth of the Internet will enable Internet fundamentals to outperform," wrote Piper Jaffray senior research analysts Aaron Kessler and Gene Munster in a report last Monday. "Whereas Internet advertising budgets were the first to be cut during the market crash in 2000, we believe the proven high ROI of online advertising today will make online advertising resilient even with a recession in the United States."
But whether the Internet remains recession-proof or not, the mortgage crisis will affect the world of web advertising in very real ways.
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