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Monday, May 10, 2010

Ben Edelman - February 2005

DATE:
2005-02

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA

AFFECTED SITES:
benedelman.org

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Extended outage

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Biggest DDoS Edelman's ISP had suffered (~600MB/sec).

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Victim is an anti-spyware activist whose research concerns spyware/adware methods of installation. Moved to Internet Software Consortium for hosting.

URLS:
1. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/09/spyware_activist_web_site_targeted_by_ddos_attack.html

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