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InternetNews January 27, 2011	British Cops Snag 5 Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Scotland Yard authorities announce arrest of five members of "Anonymous" hacking ring charged with marshaling DDoS attacks against firms that cut off payments service to Wikileaks.
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Floridian Charged in Akamai Attack A 32-year-old Floridian faces charges in Massachusetts for his alleged role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on Akamai Technologies.
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Tim Gray	Botnet Zombie Maker Faces 50 Years Federal Authorities have arrested and charged a California man with hijacking hundreds of thousands of computers and creating a vast zombie network that launched denial of service attacks and spewed spam.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
PC Magazine October 7, 2003 Mark Hachman	Long Arm of The Law The havoc created by widespread viruses in August resulted in serious legal hardball. U.S. law enforcement agents say the arrest of the alleged author of the Blaster worm sends a message to virus writers that the federal government will prosecute similar crimes.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Beware Windows Hactivation Threat A new Trojan horse masquerading as a Windows security check is wreaking havoc on PCs. Find out how you can keep your system safe.
PC World May 23, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Sizing Up Cybervandalism: Thousands Hit Monthly Researchers find debilitating hacker attacks cross borders to hit big and small targets...
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
Information Today December 5, 2013	Internet Security Providers Team Up Akamai, a cloud-based security platform, announced its acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, a provider of cloud-based security solutions for distributed denial of service attacks.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Joel Johnson	Hack Attack: Is the Whole Internet at Risk? Some hackers recently tried to take down the entire World Wide Web. You didn't even notice because the Internet is so robust.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
CIO February 1, 2002 Scott Berinato	Cs3 Los Angeles software maker Cs3 likes to look at problems from a different direction -- its MANAnet Reverse Firewall prevents distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks from leaving a network once they enter, helping to stop such assaults from propagating across the Internet...
PC World October 22, 2002 Berger & Weil	Internet Backbone Withstands Attack Monday's denial of service attack called major, but few noticed thanks to Net's redundancies.
InternetNews November 29, 2004 Jim Wagner	SCO Site Cracked The homepage for the SCO Group's Web site is back to normal Monday after attackers defaced images on the site.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Did Koobface Cause Twitter, Facebook Outages? A new variant of the widespread Internet worm Koobface made its debut today - just as Twitter and Facebook were hit by denial-of-service attacks.
InternetNews July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Iran's Ability to Carry Out Attacks in Cyberspace May Be Improving The ability to carry out attacks from across the world that can do real physical or economic damage without ever launching a jet fighter or sending in suicide squads is tempting for adversaries such as Iran, U.S. officials and cybersecurity experts have pointed out.
InternetNews January 19, 2011	New Type of Denial of Service Attack Emerging Researchers detail a new kind of more sophisticated DoS attack at this week's Black Hat security conference.
PC World August 1, 2001 James Niccolai	Code Red Awakens With a Whimper Hyped worm appears to have little impact, but experts warn we aren't out of the woods yet...
Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
PC World October 23, 2002 Paul Roberts	Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say.
PC World May 15, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Does Your PC Harbor Zombies Waiting to Attack? Unprotected broadband connections can leave your PC open to raids by malicious hackers...
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Larry Tabb	Preparing for the Inevitable While electronic thefts can be cleaner, less physical and certainly less bloody, the chance of getting money out of a brokerage or bank illegally is usually greater with a gun than a computer. But as the criminals and terrorists get smarter, we too must raise the bar.
InternetNews May 10, 2011	DDoS Attacks Hit the Bottom Line According to VeriSign, DDoS attacks have gone mainstream with 63 percent of survey respondents getting hit at least once and 11 percent getting attacked more than six times.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Glenn Derene	Top 3 Threats and Countermeasures From the Coming Cyberwar: Glossary An explanation of terms like DDoS, root-level penetration, etc.
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Arunava De	Are Hackers the Next Threat to Your Portfolio? Before you respond to a malicious attack on one of your investments in your portfolios, measure the impact that such an attack can have on the company.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	GitHub Is Still Under The Biggest DDoS Attack In Its History In the biggest DDoS attack in its history, GitHub is facing an onslaught of malicious inbound traffic from what appear to be China-based sources.
InternetNews December 3, 2004 Tim Gray	Lycos Europe Pulls Spam-Fighting Screensaver Earlier this week, Lycos Europe launched an aggressive campaign targeting spam-related Web sites. The UK-based company took the offensive when it released a "screensaver that spams the spammers."
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components.
InternetNews March 2, 2004 Jim Wagner	DDoS Vulnerability Found in FreeBSD Security experts at the FreeBSD Project, the open-source operating system group, are asking users to patch their systems against a memory buffer vulnerability that opens the doors to a distributed denial of service
Bank Technology News January 2011 Rebecca Sausner	New Year, New Hacks? The new year is likely to bring more of the same when it comes to criminals siphoning funds from consumers and banks.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	AOL The Most Infected? That's 'Silly' The ISP topped an infection list at 5.3 percent, but AOL officials blamed the way the rate was calculated.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Warns of New Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are.
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Symantec Adds Bot Hunting to Managed Services By using a traceback method, Symantec can look for hidden botnets within a corporate network.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	Million Dollar Baby A student in the UK foils Internet extortionists who launched a DDoS attack on his Million Dollar Home Page.