In what is called a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the assailants harnessed a powerful botnet — a network of thousands of infected computers being controlled remotely — to send attack traffic first to Spamhaus's Web site and later to the Internet servers used by CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley company that Spamhaus hired to deflect its onslaught.
Researchers based at King's College London reveal how social media is being harnessed by a network of radical preachers to inspire and guide British and other western Muslims waging jihad in Syria.
Erdogan accuses Gulen of harnessing an extensive network of schools, charities and businesses, built up in Turkey and abroad over decades, to infiltrate state institutions and build a "parallel structure" that aimed to take over the country.
Lincoln didn't need to be, thanks to advances in technology, but it wasn't clear yet how best to use it: he was thrust into harnessing a new information network to provide wartime leadership without precedent, text, or tutor.
On the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidates and political operatives are seeking to harness a lost network of fund-raisers who propelled President George W. Bush to the White House.
In this paper we present an approach where we harness a social network to perform RE activities such as elicitation, prioritization and negotiation.
Airbnb harnessed social networks to connect travellers with individuals willing to rent out their home or apartment.
You may recognize this approach to crowdsourced computing: Sony used PlayStation power to run the Folding@home project, which worked on synthesizing key proteins, and SETI@home harnessed distributed computing networks to help try to find alien life.
The harness was attached to a network of ropes above the youngster, who was frightened.
The non-profit is using the cloud to harness the expertise of a network of about 200 doctors, nurses and business professionals around the world, setting communities of peer networks to address different medical and crowdsourcing research, as well as best practices for medical procedures.
