Europe's largest hosting provider LeaseWeb was hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves KDMS Team. As the attackers stated, they managed to gain access to the data of the company’s clients. On October 5, a stub appeared on the main page of the hosting provider LeaseWeb, one of the largest in Europe. On it, hackers reported hacking the company's DNS servers and gaining access to the data of its clients.

Guillermo del Toro, Banksy and others The popularity of the intro directed by Guillermo del Toro for The Simpsons has led us to collect the most famous intro videos made with the participation of guest artists and directors. 1. Guillermo del Toro.

Zippo took advantage of the sensational news about the Olympic torch going out in Moscow, which a Kremlin security officer helped light.

Spanish director JJ Palomo has unveiled a three-minute trailer for Keloid, building on the existing practice of testing ideas widely developed among independent filmmakers. This is reported by FastCoCreate . Unlike most similar cases, Palomo's work looks and sounds like a trailer for a real, expensive Hollywood blockbuster.

On October 6, instead of another graffiti on the walls of New York, the famous street artist Banksy released a video. At first he attracted attention with a short video on Instagram , where you can only see that the rebels were shooting down a certain flying object with a bazooka. The caption hinted at something serious, but the video on the site turned out to be staged and comic: the downed object turned out to be the baby elephant Dumbo.

A post about fatigue from reposts on VKontakte received a record number of reposts VKontakte user Zinaida Mishchenko complained about the low quality of content on the social network, noting that her friends began to share other people’s thoughts more often, rather than publish their own content. Within a week, her complaint was copied by several thousand users.

Author: Ivan Yuminov Russian intelligence services will wiretap all telephone and Internet connections during the Olympic Games in Sochi, reports The Guardian . According to research by journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, security specialists and authors of the book “New Games of Patriots. Intelligence services change their skin 1991-2004,” during the Olympic Games the FSB will monitor all Internet traffic and telephone networks in Sochi .

The new video for the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch reproduces the concept of advertising the first iPhone, which Apple specially prepared for the broadcast of the Oscar ceremony on February 25, 2007, according to the Chinese blog Weiphone .

On October 5, banners with a dog depicted on them, similar to Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared on billboards in Boryspil, calling for joining the European Union. This was reported by PRPortal . According to the portal, the banners are placed on the so-called “city lights” throughout Boryspil, where one of the two largest airports in Kyiv is located. The phrase reads: “Europe is our home.

Rospotrebnadzor has developed criteria according to which this or that information disseminated on the Internet can be classified as suicide propaganda, according to the agency’s website. The criteria appeared after almost a year of work by the department in this direction. The statement from Rospotrebnadzor refers to an interdepartmental order, also signed by Roskomnadzor and the Federal Drug Control Service.

Steam Squad's tactic of imagining alternate scenarios of World War I on Kickstarter . has raised 90% of the funds needed to launch Bretwalda Games, which presented Steam Squad, has raised $45,000 of the required $50,000 at the time of writing. The campaign will end on October 17th. The events of Steam Squad take place in an alternate universe, the political situation in which is significantly different from the real historical state of affairs.

Mail.Ru's search engine has learned to inflect words and show their accents directly in the search results. The new feature is reported on blog . the Mail.Ru Regardless of whether the user is interested in the declension or stress of a particular word, the results will show him a complete table of cases with stress in each case. The new feature also works in the mobile version of Mail.Ru. Mail.Ru search has been operating on its own search technology since July 2013.

A group of Breaking Bad fans posted a paid obituary in New Mexico's largest newspaper, the Albuqerque Journal. reports this The newspaper itself . Warning: spoilers. David Layman, himself a school teacher in New Mexico, watched the series from the very beginning in 2007 and even participated in the filming of the pilot episode.

Author: Andrey Stavitsky Ahead of Twitter's IPO, hedge fund managers are making positive forecasts, predicting a capitalization of between $15 billion and $20 billion. reports this Bloomberg . Ironfire Capital and Gamco Investors from San Francisco predict an increase in the capitalization of the most popular microblogging service after entering the securities market. According to experts, Twitter could rise in price to 15-20 billion dollars.

Amendments to the anti-piracy law prepared by the Kremlin contain a provision that obliges search engines to remove links to pirated resources from search results. newspaper reported this on October 7 The Vedomosti . On Friday, the presidential administration held a regular meeting of the working group to discuss the anti-piracy law. The working group includes both the largest Internet companies in Russia and representatives of copyright holders.