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FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-08-26

A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.

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FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia 2004-08-28
sKyZ
Get over it, there will always be new software released. Therefore there will always be more holes and insecure code to be taken advantage of and exploited for botnets. The way to stop it is just to get people to learn about their computers and learn how they work, what should run, what shouldn't, a...

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