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Published: Monday, 3 Mar 2014 | 2:43 PM ET

Source: Meetup.com

Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber attackers who are demanding only $300 to call off a campaign that has kept the site offline for much of the past four days.

The site, which enables strangers to meet for activities of shared interest such as sports and other hobbies, could not be accessed early Monday afternoon.

A Meetup blog said that the company was a victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, a type of attack that knocks websites offline by overwhelming them with incoming traffic. It said that no personal data, including credit card information, had been accessed.

(Read more: Record-breaking DDoS attack strikes CloudFlare's network)

Meetup's co-founder and CEO, Scott Heiferman, said on the company's blog that it was the first such attack in the site's 12-year history. He defended themove not to pay the paltry ransom.

"We made a decision not to negotiate with criminals,'' he said. "Payment could make us (and all well-meaning organizations like us) a target for further extortion demands as word spread in the criminal world.''

Matthew Prince, CloudFlare co-founder & CEO, discusses cloud security and explains what companies can do to protect themselves and consumers from cyberattacks. Prince says there has been a 500 percent increase in the number of cybercrimes over the past year.

He said the small amount was likely a trick and that the perpetrators of the sophisticated attacks would likely demand more, a point internet security analyst Kevin Johnson agreed with.

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Social-networking giant looking at the company's solar-powered high-altitude drones to deliver Internet access, according to TechCrunch.

The Solara 50, one of the solar-powered drones unveiled last August by Titan Aerospace.

Facebook is in talks to acquire Titan Aerospace, the maker of a solar-powered high-altitude drone that can stay aloft for five years, according to a TechCrunch report.

The acquisition would reportedly further the efforts of Internet.org, a coalition of mobile technology companies spearheaded by Facebook that is working to bring Internet access to the 5 billion or so people around the world without it. The acquisition is valued at $60 million, a source "with access to information about the deal" told TechCrunch.

CNET has contacted Facebook and Titan Aerospace for comment and will update this report when we learn more.

Facebook is interested in dispatching some 11,000 unmanned aerial vehicles over parts of the globe that lack Internet access, beginning in Africa, according to the report. The company is said to be especially interested in the Solara 60, a featherweight aircraft built of composite materials that the New Mexico-based company claims can maintain an altitude of 65,000 feet for years without refueling, thanks to thousands of solar cells blanketing the aircraft.

The plane, which was unveiled at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference last August, can carry up to 250 pounds of gear, such as wireless communications equipment that could help fulfill the goal of Internet.org -- providing a set of basic services such as messaging, weather, food prices, Wikipedia, and Facebook, of course, to anyone regardless of whether they pay for a data connection.

While the use of drones has captured the imagination of many in the tech community for merchandise delivery, the unmanned aircraft could deliver Internet access to a wide swath of people lacking reliable service without the expense of building localized infrastructure. Other companies have floated the idea of taking to the skies to provide Internet access to developing regions, perhaps most notably Google, which plans to use souped-up weather balloons to provide Wi-Fi to remote parts of the world.

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