Rumors of an Inside Job on the DoS Attacks

from the hyping-to-extreme dept

Well, I’ve seen a number of articles mentioning this now, so I might as well post it. There are stories coming out suggesting that with all the denial of service attacks, there may have been someone from the indside involved. This was suggested from a couple of different sources, and now Yahoo is claiming that whoever launched the attack had knowledge of Yahoo’s weaknesses. Personally, I like NTK’s theory that the attacks were set up by the site admins of the attacked sites themselves. It makes you think…


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