If you launch a DDoS attack against Amazon, it's unwise to brag about it..

[Jack]

Authorities in the United States have charged two men in connection with a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that crippled websites such as Amazon.com in June 2008.

25-year-old Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, of Moscow, was arrested in Cyprus last week under an international arrest warrant, having been indicted in a federal court last year for launching botnet-powered denial-of-service attacks against Amazon.com, eBay and Priceline.

The impact of these attacks meant that customers had problems accessing the websites - meaning, effectively, that the sites stopped making money.


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[Nikos]

Botnets are thousand or perhaps millions of malware infected and controled computers by an attacker without the user's knowledge?

 

[loveboy_lion]

Thats why it is best to have a good firewall and antivirus and basic knowledge of whats going on within the computer