Media outlets have been subjected to DDoS attacks.
In the Philippines, cyber censorship is a new form of authoritarianism
Tags: Distributed denial of service attacks
#TheRealDuterteLegacy | Killings, threats, cyber-attacks against the media under Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte opened his six-year presidency with a threat – that journalists are not exempted from assassination “if you’re a son of bitch” – about a month before he was inaugurated into power. This cemented his hostility towards the media. And it did not end here.
Int’l media groups stand in solidarity with Bulatlat over website blocking
International media organizations are appalled over the National Telecommunications Commission’s order blocking online access to Bulatlat and fellow alternative news Pinoy Weekly, which the Philippine government accused of having terror links.
Cyberattacks traced to PH hackers hailed by gov’t as ‘computer geniuses,’ probe shows
Sweden-based Qurium Media Foundation released their internal forensic investigation on the three-month long distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Philippine media, tracing it to a group of Filipino hackers that were earlier hailed by the government’s counterinsurgency arm as “a group of computer geniuses.”
DOST urged to reveal who runs IP address behind cyber-attacks
Alternative online news Bulatlat is disappointed as the Department of Science and Technology chose not to divulge the government agency that runs the IP address where cyber-attacks against news websites have been traced.
Solon seeks probe on cyberattacks vs alternative news, human rights websites
“As lawmakers, it is our duty to ensure that public funds are used judiciously for the benefit of the people, and not used to violate their civil and political rights enshrined in our Constitution.”
A second look at the charges filed vs. IT companies over news sites cyberattacks
In this report, we take a second look on the charges filed against IT companies IP Converge and Suniway Group of Companies. The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers provided legal assistance to the alternative media outfits.
DDoS at ang oras ng pagtutuos
Internet traffic, bandwidth, online user, DDoS, VPN, IP address, server logs at kung ano-ano pa. Masyadong teknikal ang mga termino kaya mahirap maintindihan ng ordinaryong tao. Paano ba ipapaliwanag ang pinagdaraanan ng ilang website ng alternatibong midya? At higit sa lahat, paano ba iuugnay ito sa kalayaan sa pamamahayag? Noong nakaraang taon, nakaranas ang mga…
‘Time to fight back for alternative news under attack’
Since December, Bulatlat and several alternative media outfits have been experiencing a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where the server of a website is maliciously being overloaded to shut it down.