The FBI has executed 40 arrest warrants throughout the US in an investigation against the online group Anonymous.
These arrests came as a response to recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in defense of WikiLeaks in 2010. The attacks targeted Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Amazon, all of which stopped providing services to WikiLeaks after it started the distribution of thousands of leaked diplomatic cables.
In their statement, the FBI said that these arrests are “as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations”.
ars technica has some really interesting personal stories from people who got arrested and searched by the FBI.
December has ended, and so has the year 2010. If you haven’t seen our top 10 videos for 2010, now’s the time!
In the mean time, you can also check out the top commercial virals for December 2010, as tracked by Unruly Media.
Yet again, sports dominate the chart, with commercials for DC shoes and Nike. Roller Babies, a tremendously successful ad, is again a viral hit this month.
According to a study from TubeMogul, approximately 80% of marketers that are using online video on their sites, do so to increase visitor engagement, or time spent on the site. About 60% use online video to strengthen their brand, and almost 60% use video to increase the amount of overall visitors.