Cybersecurity
Anonymous Blamed for Attacks on Technology Group Websites
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Two technology trade associations said they were targeted by the hacker-activist group Anonymous as it singled out supporters of proposed legislation to improve U.S. cybersecurity.
Anonymous claimed credit for denial-of-service assaults on the TechAmerica and USTelecom websites, according to the associations representing companies including International Business Machines Corp., Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. Such offensives typically involve flooding a website with traffic, causing it to crash.