A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Ill. was found guilty for violations of the Computer Fraud […]
The use of misconfigured network middleboxes and censorship systems for DDoS reflection was theorized last year by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland and University of Colorado Boulder. In their paper, the academics showed that censorship infrastructure could be abused to achieve DDoS amplification ratios of up to 700,000:1. Furthermore, they showed […]
Denial of service attacks are caused by an attack directing huge amounts of data to a target’s computer servers in an effort to overwhelm them.
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