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DDoS attacks are surprisingly low tech. Using a network of computers (dubbed zombies) controlled by a single master machine, the hacker tries to overwhelm a website's servers. It's a brute-force approach - the network of hacker-controlled computers floods the server with requests for data until the server...
Adding to the chaos is the fact that the zombie computers often show no signs of being infected. Hackers look for computers with security vulnerabilities and infect them in advance of an attack. When the hackers are ready to launch the assault, the master computer awakens its zombie army, and...
This method of causing computer chaos has been used at least as far back as 1998, when the first software tools were developed to assist in DDoS assaults. But the attacks didn't garner much attention until 2000, when Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! and CNN were brought down in a single...
Counsel for the plaintiffs, by contrast, presented a methodical run-through of the facts, bolstered by expert testimony that the files in question had been downloaded on Tenenbaum's computer and that illegal file-sharing had caused a precipitous decline in the revenues of the recording industry.
Areva has benefited from nuclear power's second coming as much as any other company. But its 2008 profits - $824 million on $18.4 billion in sales - were down 17% from 2007, due mostly to a whopping $2.4 billion write-down linked to construction troubles with its Finland reactor. The Finnish...