A 300 Gigabit per second denial of service attack has been crowned the biggest DDoS operation to date. For over a week, European spam-blocking service Spamhaus has been subjected to a brutal Denial of Service attack that has been so large, it has threatened to slow down the entire Internet infrastructure.
Month: March 2013
High-speed UFO caught on video nearly colliding with Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
In what appears to be a truly untouched, authentic video, an American tourist captured a high-speed UFO orb near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France this week. Shot on March 26, 2013, the UFO appears on-screen to the right, travels at an unbelievable rate of speed towards the Eiffel Tower before shooting upwards and disappearing…
Bitcoin cryptographic virtual currency puzzles economists – hits record-setting $1 billion valuation
Bitcoin, the world’s first open source cryptographic currency, set a new record yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation, this sets the total worth of the currency at just over one billion dollars. Bitcoin is a digital currency that runs…
Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket engines recovered from floor of Atlantic
Two of the five Saturn V rocket engines that powered NASA’s July 19, 1969 Apollo 11 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been recovered from the Atlantic ocean floor in an expedition sponsored by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The rockets, which had a shelf life of only 165 seconds, were jettisoned into the waters…
Home burnt to the ground by flaming snake after woman douses snake with gas and sets it on fire.
The 1950 Guy Hottel UFO Memo – secret US Air Force memo regarding recovery of UFO and its occupants
FBI officials admitted last week that the most popular file in their online reading room, the memo known as the Guy Hottel Memo, was never even investigated. The memo, dated March 22, 1950, was written by special agent Guy Hottel, head of the FBI’s field office in Washington and addressed to FBI Director, J. Edgar…
Mysterious little creature photographed at Texas natural gas plant
Crazy things kids say in church (or about religion)
57-year-old man forgotten and left in solitary confinement for 2 years in New Mexico jail
Stephen Slevin was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while under the influence and possession of a stolen vehicle. Upon incarceration, Dona Ana County authorities noticed that Slevin appeared depressed. Feeling that he could be a danger to himself, they put him in solitary confinement, a dark, padded cell – and forgot about him for…
De-extinction for the first time – bizarre extinct frog species brought back from the grave
Rheobatrachus silus, the gastric-brooding frog, is different from most other frogs – it gives birth from its mouth, swallowing eggs to hide in its stomach until they’re ready to hatch then spitting out live baby frogs. Sadly. the frog was last seen in the wild in 1979 and became extinct a few years later. Luckily,…