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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
TCJ2
Change the system?

How about change the thinking of the people writing the crap software? (i.e. Microsoft) How about holding big business responsible for their actions....or lack there of.

If Microsoft can release a patch for a vulnerability in less than three days, then they could have coded...

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