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Articles on Denial of Service:

BBC website hit by Denial of Service attack : Read 11/12/08 article.

UK gambling company warns of DDoS-attack risk: Read 3/8/08 article.

Chinese hackers: No site is safe: Read 3/7/08 article

Hacker botnet attacking gambling sites: Read 2/21/08 article

DDOS Danger For Online Gambling Sites: Read 2/20/08 article

Comcast Responds To Claims Of Network Discrimination: Read 2/13/08 article.

Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology: Read 1/24/08 article

Online crime gangs embrace open source ethos: Read 1/17/08 article

Is Bot Defense the IDS of 2008? Read 12/7/07article

The security risks of your business website: Read 12/6/07 article

The e-Jihadists are coming, the e-Jihadists are coming! Read 11/7/07 article

Cyberjihad for Veterans' Day weekend? Read 11/7/07 article.

Consumer revenge site wilts under DDoS attack: Read 10/29/07 article

Denial-of-Rockies-Tickets Attack: Read 10/24/07 article, Read 11/4/07 article

A Hacker's Holiday Shopping List: Read 10/20/07 article

Hackers Paralyze Web Sites of Game Money Trading Firms

Hackers Breaking Up Botnets To Elude Detection: Read 10/3/07 article

Alleged CastleCops DDoS botmaster busted: Read 10/3/07 article

VeriSign: DoS attack could shut down internet: Read 9/25/07 article

China’s cyber army is preparing to march on America, says Pentagon: Read 9/8/07 article

Record-breaking 'Storm' linked to spam surge: Read 8/14/07 article

DoS Attack Feared As Storm Worm Siege Escalates: Read 8/2/07 article

Why we're losing the fight against botnets: Read 7/28/07 article

Denial-of-service attacks get easier to set up: Read 7/13/07 article

Mitigating the effects of a DDoS attack: Read 7/11/07 article

The Barracuda.A bot uses 15000 computers to launch DDoS attacks: Read 5/17/07 article

Finnish websites fall prey to denial-of-service attacks: Read 5/16/07 article

Denial of Service/DDoS Attack on mybulgaria.info - Bulgarian Property Portal: Read 5/16/07 article

Botnet management app exposed : Read 5/14/07 article

Record-Setting Spam Effort Turns Computers into Zombies : Read 4/26/07 article

Who's behind criminal Bot networks: Read 4/10/07 article

No respite in Pakistan Internet blackout: Read 3/5/07 article

Denial of service threatens everybody: Read 3/2/07 article

DoS Attack Cripples Internet Root Servers: Read the 2/6/07 article

Targeted websites wish ISPs were in the frame, but find UK laws of little help: Read the 11/23/06 article

Change to Computer Misuse Act worries researchers: : Read the 11/23/06 article;

UK Updates Computer Crime Laws: Read the 11/14/06 article;

National Australia Bank hit by DDoS attack: Read the 10/20/06 article:

Zombies try and blend in with the crowd. Read the 10/19/06 article:

Is the Botnet battle already lost? Read the 10/16/06 article:

Chinese hackers attacking the Commerce Department. Read the 10/9/06 article:

DDoS, Slammer Top six-month Internet threats. Read the 10/9/06 article:

Gang jailed in Russia for DDoS blackmail. Read the 10/6/06 article:

Trend Micro: thousands of government computers infected by Bots. Read the 10/5/06 article:

Massive DoS attacks against ISPs on The rise. Read the 9/12/06 article:

Investigator urges companies to report cybercrime. Read the 08/24/06 article:

Helping to stop DDOS - detecting DNS recursion configuration Issues. Read the 08/08/06 article:

Researchers target DDoS at the Edge. Read the 07/27/08 article:

Botnets-The Internet’s elusive parasite. Read the 07/14/06 article:

Microsoft WGA attracts copycat Worm and Second Lawsuit. Read the 07/05/06 article:

Worm disguises itself as Windows genuine advantage. Read the 07/04/06 article:

Today's attackers Can Find the Needle. Read the 06/30/06 article:

Service providers must protect customers from DDoS. Read the 06/29/06 article:

The single biggest problem today is botnets. Read the June 2006 article:

Zombie attacks cost ISPs dear. Read the 06/22/06 article:

Protecting your business f rom cyber extortion. Read the 06/20/06 article:

Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue Trojan. Read the 06/19/06 article:

Configuring DNS servers to help defend networks from botnets, distributed denial of service attacks. Read the 06/13/06 article:

World Cup betting sites go offline. Read the 06/13/06 article:

Microsoft: Zombies most prevelent Windows threat. Read the 6/12/06 article:

Cyber extortion, a very real threat. Read the 06/07/06 Article:

No need To deceive, viruses offer users a faustian bargain. Read the 06/06/06 article:

Corralling the Zombies. Read the 6/5/06 article:

Pirate Bay support spills over into bot-army DDoS attacks. Read the 06/04/06 article:

Antispam firm says it was victim of attack. Read the 5/8/05 article:

Hospital zombie attacker pleads guilty to disrupting computer systems . Read the 5/5/06 article:

Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services. Read the 5/5/06 article:

Six Apart suffered a sophisticated denial of service attack... Read the May 4, 2006 article:

Stop the Bots. Read the 4/20/06 article:

More Internet Threats Expected This Year. Read the 4/20/06 article:

Disturbing developments in DDoS attacks… new generation of zombies, Linux zombies, being used to launch DDoS attacks against targets. Read the 4/13/06 article:

The Mysterious Botnets of China...hundreds of thousands of PCs used for DDoS. Read the 4/11/06 article:

New Trojan Hijacks Your Internet Traffic. Read the 4/11/06 article:

Researcher: Security risks in Web services largely ignored…Web services requests could be used to conduct denial-of-service attacks. Read the 4/7/06 article:

Security Alert: When Bots Attack. Read the 4/6/06 article:

2005: The year of the Bot. Read the 4/6/06 article:

Serious organized crime agency gets going…During the past 12 months there has been a massive increase in the use of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) in order to extort money…Read the 4/6/06 article:

Ever-growing arsenal for hacking attacks…Dangerous new methods such as "distributed reflection denial of service" attacks are straining and in some cases crippling existing defenses. Read the 4/3/06 article:

Senior levels of the US government are taking an interest in recent distributed denial-of-service attacks against the Internet's domain name system. Read the 4/3/06 article:

Chinese official websites hacked, used for Botnet denial of service attacks. Read the 3/31/06 article:

DNS servers hit by denial-of-service attacks. Read the 3/28/06 article:

DDoS moves upstream. Read the 3/27/06 article:

Sun's Grid DDOS-Attacked. Read the 3/23/06 article:

Duo charged over DDoS for hire scam…Lost E-commerce exceeded $1 million. Read the 3/22/06 article:

Phishing and Denial of Service attacks are on the rise…DoS Attacks up 50%. Read 3/21/06 article:

VeriSign details massive denial-of-service attacks. Read the 3/16/06 article:

Zombie PCs menace mankind. Read the 3/7/06 article:

DDoS attacks target prominant blogs. Read the 2/28/06 article:

Russia's Stock Market Knocked Offline By DoS Attack. Read the 2/3/06 article:

Botnet control fears over IP telephony. Read the 1/26/06 article:

DDOS attacks are the responsibility of business. Read the 1/27/06 article:

Blackmailers target $1Million website. Ready the 1/18/06 article:

Be very afraid. Read the November 2005 article:

Microsoft, FTC on the prowl for Zombies. Read the 10/28/05 article:

DDoS Attacks still the biggest threat…Access control lists (resulting in self-creating denial-of-service) are the predominate response. Read the 10/13/05 article:

The Zombie Hunters: On the trail of Cyber Extortionists…DDoS attack blocks E-commerce site for days. Company purchases annual $100,000 support plan to block denial of service attacks. Read the 10/10/05 article:

Dutch smash 100,000-strong zombie army. Read the 10/7/05 article:

Victims coughing up to on-line extortionists. Read the 10/6/05 article:

Symantec website under DDoS attack. Read the 7/18/05 article:

Deterrence must be the key to avoiding DDoS attacks. Read the June 1, 2005 article:

Extortion via DDoS on the rise. Read the 5/16/05 article:

Attack on game raises prospect on on-line extortion…Gaming industry faces on-line denial of service attacks. Read the 4/21/05 article:

Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack. Read the 4/11/05 article:

Computer crime cost to business soars…DDoS affecting 13 per cent of businesses at a cost of more than £558m. Read the 4/5/05 article:

Botnets taking control away from users, enterprises. Read the 4/1/05 article:

Hackers control more than a million PCs: German study finds Botnet attacks worse than expected. Read the 3/16/05 article:

Japan.gov weathers DDoS attack. Read the 2/24/05 article:

MySQL attack signals 'Bot trouble: Read the 1/28/05 article:

Rings of steel combat net attacks…Gambling sites battle DDoS attacks. Read the 1/13/05 article:

EBay Scrambles for Answers to PayPal Outage. Read the 10/12/04 article:

DDoS Attack Stalls Web Credit Card Transactions. Read the 9/23/04 article:

FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia. Read the 8/26/04 article:

Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick. Read the 7/27/04 article:

DDoS attack stalls web credit card transactions. Read the 9/23/04 article: