Post 1539

Tech: Jay Echouafni is on the lam. He paid 5 peo­ple, includ­ing the netad of CIT/FooNet, to per­form DDoS attacks against his com­peti­tors. CIT hosted TV retail­ing busi­ness. “This is an exam­ple of a grow­ing trend: that is, denial of ser­vice attacks being used for either extor­tion­ate rea­sons, or to dis­able or impair the com­pe­ti­tion,” says FBI super­vi­sory spe­cial agent Frank Har­rill. “It’s a grow­ing prob­lem and one that we take very seri­ously, and one that we think has a very destruc­tive impact and poten­tial.” Thanks, Slash­dot.

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