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Online Extortion Works
Scott Granneman, 2004-12-13

Online extortion is quietly affecting thousands of businesses, for a very simple reason: it works. The big question then becomes, how will you and your company decide to respond?

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Online Extortion Works 2004-12-13
Trey Keifer - trey.keifer@fishnetsecurity.com (3 replies)
Online Extortion Works 2004-12-14
sandro gauci - sandro@gfi.com
Online Extortion Works 2004-12-14
Anonymous (1 replies)
Survey says ........ buzzzzzzzzz WORONG!
Unless you take your website down, it is vulnerable to DDoS attacks.
When 10,000 hosts constantly request your home page, how do you differentiate legitimate requests from this type of attack?

Sure you can close up known holes in networks and servers, however, it is very difficult to prevent the abuse of a service you intend to make available.


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