In September, Brian Krebs' website was hacked with a distributed denial of service,” or DDoS, which brought down his website for several days. Despite being an expert in cyber security, Krebs was unable to defend against the attack and was silenced throughout it. More to the point, he was silenced. Krebs believes this was in response to a story he wrote exposing two Israeli hackers.


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