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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 2004-08-31
Skatan
You people bitch too much. How do you think these kids get 10k botnets...its cuz your computers arent patched up.

No publically available IRC Bot uses any exploits that arent already patched. If internet users as a whole were more security savy then bots like Phatbot, Agobot, Urxbot, RBot and the...

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