Darren Pauli / ZDNet Australia:
Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation — South Korea has installed digital “bunkers” to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. — The nation was floored after huge streams of junk internet data poured …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
FBI probes 4chan’s ‘Anonymous’ DDoS attacks — The FBI has launched an investigation into an online protest that allegedly took down numerous Web sites belonging to antipiracy and entertainment groups, as well as the U.S. Copyright Office, a source with knowledge of the probe told CNET today.
These distributed attacks are very hard trace since most of the computers that are doing the attack have owners that are not even aware of what their computer is doing. Their system is taken over by a virus or Trojan and is under the control of the …
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