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Article: DDoS extortion: Readers react.(Distributed Denial-of-service Attack)
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- Network World
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- June 20, 2005
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Byline: Paul McNamara
A few weeks ago we discussed what has become an epidemic of extortion attempts against companies by people who demand that their victims pay up -- typically by wiring money to an offshore bank - or face a potentially debilitating distributed denial-of-service attack.
Many send the money rather than risk network hell -- and they are also loath to notify the authorities for fear of bad publicity.
Because trade press columnists get paid to tell others how to conduct their business, I had two suggestions regarding this matter: Make paying extortionists illegal so as to remove the temptation to take the shortsighted way out, and ...