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September 12, 2007 Security Sites Become Targets of DDoS Attacks A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Mark Joseph Edwards Security Matters InstantDoc #97057 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Numerous sites that offer security information have come under sustained distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and some of the sites remain offline due to traffic overloads.

Sites such as fraudwatchers.org, scamfraudalert.com, scam.com, 419eater.com, spamnation.info, scamwarners.com, thecarpcstore.com, and castlecops.com have fallen victim. The DDoS attacks are being delivered via botnets and the apparent motive is retaliation.

Castlecops opened a DDoS forum to discuss the issue.

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