, 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.
Anonymous
Cyber crime is like an ugly wart on the face of technology for which the remedy is still unknown. Anonymity and accessibility are two incubating factors for this kind of ugliness and now that it has got a flavor of "dollars" I fear it wont take much time for it to grow from " a b...
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