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Online gansters; Hackers who extort money

Jun 1st, 2005 1:00am
These days, the new gansters are online; hackers who extort money from firms by threatening of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks. Ransom emails demanding lots of money in return for not hacking and knocking your company servers offline is becoming a very common problem. DDOS attacks overwhelm servers with customer requests until they are forced offline. Worst part is, many computers (which may include yours) are used to ...

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