Tom Cruise lauds power of Scientology in Web video
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A video of actor Tom Cruise touting himself and fellow Scientologists as "authorities on the mind" has appeared on the Internet, coinciding with a new biography that examines his role in the movement.
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InfoWorld - A group of hackers calling itself "Anonymous" has hit the Church of Scientology's Web site with an online attack.
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American movie star Tom Cruise cemented  his ties with Japan Wednesday, becoming the first foreign actor  to have his handprint earmarked for a place on a central Tokyo  square resembling Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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Tom Cruise video clip forced off YouTube, say activists, as church hit by sabotage of website
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Tom Cruise's business partner says a new deal has been struck to secure the actor's place in the film business.
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A group of hackers calling itself &quot;Anonymous&quot; has hit the Church of Scientology&#39;s Web site with an online attack.The attack was launched Jan. 19 by Anonymous, which is seeking media attention to help &quot;save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing,&quot; according to a Web page maintained by Anonymous.Anonymous claims to have knocked the Church&#39;s Web site offline with a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which many computers bombard the victim&#39;s server with requests, overwhelming it with data in the hope of ultimately knocking the system offline. True to its name, Anonymous does not disclose the true identities of its members.The attacks were spurred by the Church&#39;s efforts to remove video of movie star Tom Cruise professing his admiration for the religion, according to an Anonymous video manifesto posted to Youtube.&quot;For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form,&quot; a creepy computerized voice states in the video. Anonymous followed up this dispatch with a second video blasting the media for failing to completely report the group&#39;s criticisms of the church. This video was taken down Friday by Youtube, citing a &quot;terms of use violation.&quot;Anonymous has managed to generate a measurable attack against the Scientology.org Web site. Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220Mbps of traffic, according to Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, whose company compiles data on Internet attacks.The Anonymous campaign shows some level of organization. &quot;220Mbps is probably about in the middle of attack sizes,&quot; Nazario said. &quot;It&#39;s not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this.&quot;On average, the attacks lasted about 30 minutes and used up 168Mbps of bandwidth. In the past year, Arbor has seen attacks on other sites hit 40Gbps, or 200 times the strength of the Anonymous event.Shortly after it was hit with the DDOS flood, the Scientology.org Web site was moved to a server hosted by Prolexic Technologies, according to data compiled by Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company. Prolexic specializes in protecting companies from DDOS attacks.A Prolexic spokeswoman confirmed that the Church of Scientology is one of the company&#39;s clients, but declined to offer more details on the matter. The Church of Scientology did not answer questions relating to the online attacks, but in a statement it said that the controversy over the Tom Cruise video had driven traffic to its Web site.The secretive Church of Scientology&#39;s practices, including its efforts to use copyright law to restrict the dissemination of information about the church, have engendered a lot of criticism within the Internet community. But one Web site set up to criticize Scientology -- called Operation Clambake -- called the DDOS attacks a bad idea. &quot;Attacking Scientology like that will just make them play the religious persecution card,&quot; wrote Andreas Heldal-Lund, the Web site&#39;s owner. &quot;They will use it to defend their own counter actions when they try to shatter criticism and crush critics without mercy.&quot;If publicity was Anonymous&#39; ultimate goal, the group has had some success. Late in the day Friday, seven of the top 10 stories on the Digg.com news-linking site related to Scientology or to Anonymous&#39; communiques.Although the group&#39;s Web page exhorts participants to &quot;begin bumping Digg,&quot; Anonymous did not manipulate the news site&#39;s promotional algorithm system, which determines which stories get top billing, according to Digg CEO Jay Adelson.&quot;They must have done a very good job of bringing in a diverse set of interests,&quot; he said. &quot;It just happened to hit a nerve that the Digg community was interested in.&quot;It is unusual for Digg&#39;s front page to be so dominated by a single topic, but not unprecedented, Adelson said. Last year&#39;s shootings at Virginia Tech and the 2005 terrorist bombings in London achieved a comparable level of coverage. &quot;In the history of Digg, there&#39;s no question that the topic of Scientology has been of great interest to the community,&quot; he said. &quot;I can&#39;t explain why.&quot;
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The German government might consider Scientology a cult but they're now going to allow Tom Cruise to finish his film
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Some visitors to the ancient Croatian city of Dubrovnik got an unexpected souvenir: a photo with Tom Cruise, who came for a brief visit after promoting his new movie, "Collateral," at the Venice Film Festival.
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Pass us the coffee, would you? Letters Want to be in complete control of your computer? Put your hands in the air and wave 'em around a bit. That'll do the trick. Well, maybe it is a bit more complex than that. But really, as Microsoft proposes a hand waving, Minority Report-style computer interface, all we care about is that Tom Cruise stays in the Scientology celebrity centre, and away from our sofa:â¦
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In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes' latest movie, "Blade: Trinity," is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation. But unlike typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to Web sites like VCDQuality.com doesn't key on the vampire film's plot, acting or bloody visual effects. Instead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie's debut, if not before.
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Arts & entertainment: Defence ministry happy for star to filming thriller Valkyrie in country despite Scientology beliefs.
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After the storm The Church of Scientology has restored it website to normal after a campaign of denial of service attacks prompted it to use DDoS mitigation service Prolexic.â¦
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There is "no overt threat" on a video said to be by Osama Bin Laden, US officials say, but it may be recent.
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Actor Tom Cruise spends two-and-a-half hours meeting fans at the UK premiere of his new film Collateral.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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Tom Cruise is honoured by the American Film Institute at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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The makers of a movie about a plot to  kill Adolf Hitler said on Friday they had the permits needed to  film in Germany despite being declared unwelcome at military  sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist.