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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.
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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.
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BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
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 July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
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Search Engine Watch January 20, 2010 Jason King	Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China.
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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.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Oregon Man Cops Plea in eBay DDOS Attack A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on eBay in 2003.
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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.
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