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GoDaddy, an Arizona web hosting company, experienced severe outages yesterday. The massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) began late Monday morning, and the GoDaddy.com site itself went offline. Twitter user Anonymous Own3r, a member of the Anonymous hacktivist group, is claiming sole responsibility for the attack. According to the twitter account, Anonymous Own3r is an official member and security leader of the famous hacktavist group Anonymous, and claims the move is a reaction to the company’s support of the U.S. government’s efforts “to censor and control the Internet,” through its support of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA).

GoDaddy is currently the largest domain registrant in the world, and is four times the size of its nearest competitor. GoDaddy reportedly manages more than 48 million domain names and serves more than 9.3 million customers. The outage affected not only those sites hosted by GoDaddy, but also those registered with the company which includes thousands of websites, big and small. Reports also show the FBI and DOJ, the Recording Industry of America, Motion Picture Association of America, Universal Music and BMI.com websites were also attacked by this movement. The hacking group is trying to claim retribution for anti-piracy efforts by both the government and the entertainment industry.

Who is Anonymous you might ask…..
Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the website 4chan.com, an image sharing website where a large number of online community users simultaneously exist as a “digitized global brain”. It is also generally considered a term used for members of certain Internet subcultures, where their actual identities are not known. In its early phase, the concept had been adopted by a spread out online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner against a loosely self-agreed goal, and was primarily focused on entertainment. In 2008, they began increasingly associating with collaborative, international hacktivism. Although it’s not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes popular imageboards such as 4chan, their associated wikis, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and a number of other forums.

Anonymous has claimed involvement in a number of cyber-attacks in the past including attacks against the Pentagon, News Corp, Monsanto, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, GM, and other Government websites. They have even threatened to destroy Facebook. Their coordinated community is not only involved in cyber-attacks, it has also partly organized activist movements such as Occupy Wallstreet, and have been responsible for tracking down wanted criminals that lead police to an arrest.

A recent statement by Anonymous read: “We will continue to attack those who embrace censorship. You will not be able to hide your ludicrous ways to control us”. So now the question is: Who will be the next target of Anonymous, and how long before we see another attack?

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For those of you that just can’t Tweet enough, Twitter has followed Facebook’s lead and has created a new Tweet Button for the internet. Similar to the way many news articles now offer a button to “Recommend” a page, Twitter’s Tweet Button will allow website users to Tweet and share content.

The following websites have already integrated the new Tweet Button. Expect to see many, many more soon.

AddThis
Arizona Republic/azcentral.com
Ask.com
CBS Interactive
CNN.com
Cracked.com
Detroit Free Press
eHow.com
Eventbrite
Gawker Media
HuffingtonPost.com
Hulu
LIVESTRONG.com
Redfin
SFGate.com
ShareThis
Sky News
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Des Moines Register
The Indianapolis Star
The Onion
The Tennessean
Threadless
TIME.com
TV Guide
USA TODAY
WordPress.com
WUSA 9
Yardbarker
YouTube

Take a look at this mashable video for a demonstration of how it works:
http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/tweet-button-official/

Now to start working on my own version of a WordPress interface for this. 🙂

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We are excited about our latest client testimonials for computer repair and website services, take a look at what recent clients had to say about us:

Nikki Albert
Wellness Therapies

"Andre and team–thanks for a beautiful website. Love it!!"

Tom
Phoenix, Arizona

"My wife and I are very satisfied with the work that my PC Techs completed on our computers. Our son is in Afghanistan and we use Skype to see and talk to him, but I was having trouble with it. It was impotant for us to get it corrected, so when your tech came out and solved the problem we were grateful."

Peter Daniel
Arizona Youth & Family Services, Inc.

"my PC Techs provided us with exceptional customer service, excellent quality and a great price for our new website."

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We meet many business owners each week who provide a wide variety of products and services to the Phoenix metro area. Despite the quality of the products and services they offer, their sales and profits have declined significantly over the past several years. It’s easy to blame the recession, and most of us have been hit hard. Sales are still down during this slow recovery and many businesses are still struggling.

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