DOJ Keeps Low Profile on Curador; Protect Your IIS Server Today!
L. Taylor - March 29, 2000

Event Summary

It was only a month ago that U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno insisted that the perpetrator of the February 9th Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks would be caught and punished. Though the FBI was able to track down a New Hampshire teenager for defacing a couple of websites, there is no indication that the perpetrator of the widespread February 9 Denial of Service attacks is even close to being identified. These attacks, which interrupted- at Amazon.com, Buy.com, E*Trade and others by preventing would-be customers from connecting and proceeding with legitimate transactions, are not nearly as serious as the credit card theft being perpetrated by Curador...