Principles of Information Security
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Mafiaboy’s attack:
Mafiaboy case is well known to the world as it affected 11 corporate networks.
- He became a great example as a novice who used pre-coded exploits to launch DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.
- The tools used by Mafiaboy are easily available on the internet.
- The tools used by him required little computer knowledge and can be used by script kiddies.
- These attacks resulted in nearly $1 loss to many reputed companies.
Exploitation of several sites:
Mafiaboy’s attack blocked the networks and filled the networks with garbage data, by running a computer script.
- Because of these attacks it got difficult to reach those sites. In some cases the sites got completely crashed.
- The issue became so serious that the authorities were prompted to investigate...
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