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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 2004-09-01
Anonymous
Computer attacks are not unusual this days where even a 6 year old kid with a pc can learn hacking within weeks. The issue here is that modern computer and networking systems are too vulnerable for attacks. Even if we download countless patch from the big ol' microsoft and update our virus definitio...

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