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Amazing article about DDoS and extortion

3.5GB/sec of traffic, it even took down the ISP and the ISP's ISP! :Yikes:

http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/382...2c2/index.html

If it's not available (been Slashdotted) then read this version:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...d&cid=12433013

Re: Amazing article about DDoS and extortion

:Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

Thats certainly an interesting read..... and scary!

Re: Amazing article about DDoS and extortion

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Originally Posted by KingPhoenix

:Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

Thats certainly an interesting read..... and scary!

Certainly is, and as we cannot expect the average home user to protect themselves with firewalls, antivirus, anti-spyware tools and such like, until internet ready computers are secure by design the problem wont go away.

Probably not even then, ISP's and other internet organisations need to take a proactive stance on this and do more, what that can be though I have no idea.