Meetup’s website remained offline Monday, the victim of a massive DDoS attack, which began last week with an email asking the company’s CEO to cough up $300, or else. The social networking site and ...

A small group huddling in a corner of Cafe Fatoush one Monday evening was engaged in an animated French discussion of “The Guest,” a short story penned by absurdist philosopher Albert Camus. On ...

As unfortunate as it is, DDoSing is as easy to pull off as it is frustrating. With enough computers at their disposal, anyone could force enough traffic to a website in order to take it down, and even ...

Meetup is one of those websites that almost everyone has used at some point, and with more than 12 years of an online presence it is no surprise that many have grown to depend on the service for ...

Facebook and Twitter often monopolize digital conversations, but a new social networking site is asking its users to "Meetup" around Blacksburg. Web sites such as Facebook connect individuals, but the ...

As his company readied to push past the 100 million RSVP mark earlier this month, Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman refused to celebrate. “We perpetually feel like we’re a long way away from where we want to ...

NEW YORK — Two weekends ago, the event coordination site Meetup was down. If you’ve ever seen the part in The Social Network where fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg says, “We don’t crash ever! If the ...

TORONTO, March 3 (Reuters) - Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber-criminals who are demanding $300 to call off an attack that has kept the site offline for ...

Meetup’s website remained offline Monday, the victim of a massive DDoS attack, which began last week with an email asking the company’s CEO to cough up $300 — or else. The social networking site and ...