, 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
My network was attacked last night by a DDoS ..the DNS was foonet.
Is the investigation still open? Can it be reopened?
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