News Story DDoS for sale

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 07:53

According to the latest McAfee Labs Third Quarter Threats Report 2009 instances of Distributed Denial of Service attacks are growing in popularity.

In the last quarter the McAfee Labs observed many new attacks demanding ransom money including those aimed at sports betting companies which were taken out of action during key sporting events to cause losses in the millions.

Such attacks have not only been used to make money, but also silence political opinion.

But perhaps...


 

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