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Denial of service--the next wave

If IT managers thought the last wave of high-profile Denial of Service attacks were bad, they might find themselves completely blindsided by the next wave--Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). This article from Tech Web claims that many companies are unaware, or unprepared, for DDoS, which uses the computers of unsuspecting individuals or companies to launch attacks on servers, sometimes from hundreds of computers at once, making this type of attack very difficult to trace and even harder to shut down. Get the full story here, and get ready.

Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:38:55 -0800