As a note, lj_maintenance has a map showing the IPs of all the computers that have been used in the DDoS attacks. If you want to check and see if your computer has been used as a "zombie bot," go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/, copy your address, and then check it against the list in the sidebar of ( Read more... )

From The Moscow TimesRussia, the country's main platform for uncensored political discussion, recovered Tuesday from its biggest-ever hacker attack - which bloggers said could not have been staged without state resources ( Read more... )

I just got a call from a credit card about a recent payment to Livejournal. Apparently the company thought that LJ was a scam and that the card had been stolen because LJ is owned by a Russian company ( Read more... )