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On February 2000, a massive DDoS attack against high profile websites including [[Yahoo]]!, [[Buy.com]], [[eBay]], CNN, [[Amazon.com]], [[ZDNet.com]], E-Trade, and Excite were paralyzed and lost an estimated amount of $1.7 billion. A suspect in who is a juvenile Canada with an online alias "mafiaboy" was arrested on April of the same year. He plead guilty on January 18, 2001 on 56 charges of mischief and illegal use of computer services.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/whoare/notable.html E-Commerce Giants Crippled in DDoS Attacks]</ref>
On February 2000, a massive DDoS attack against high profile websites including [[Yahoo]]!, [[Buy.com]], [[eBay]], CNN, [[Amazon.com]], [[ZDNet.com]], E-Trade, and Excite were paralyzed and lost an estimated amount of $1.7 billion. A suspect in who is a juvenile Canada with an online alias "mafiaboy" was arrested on April of the same year. He plead guilty on January 18, 2001 on 56 charges of mischief and illegal use of computer services.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/whoare/notable.html E-Commerce Giants Crippled in DDoS Attacks]</ref>
Over the years intruders used different DDoS tools affecting computer systems such as Stacheldraht 1.666 DDoS tool was discovered and widely spread on multiple compromised hosts in several organizations; <ref>[http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-01.html CA-2000-01 Denial-of-Service Developments]</ref> [[Love Letter Worm]] a malicious VBScript which was spread through emails, Windows file sharing, IRC, USENET news and through webpages affecting more than 500,000 computer systems; <ref>[http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-04.html CERT Advisory CA-2000-04 Love Letter Worm]</ref> [[T0rnkit]] was also distributed by intruders using six different versions of rootkit.<ref>[http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2000-10.html Cert Incident Note IN-2000-10]</ref> e-mail borne viruses such as [[W/32/Sircam]]<ref>[http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/home-network-security/#III-B-1 Home Network Security]</ref> and many other viruses and worms distributed by hackers to cripple computer networks in homes and organizations.
[[Network Solutions]] spokesperson [[Shashi Bellamkonda]] reported that the company experienced a consecutive DDoS attacks on JUne 20-21, 2011 wherein its costumers were unable to access the server and e-mail and the website became unable. The company was to resolve the problem immediately.<ref>[http://dos-attacks.com/2011/06/22/network-solutions-bounces-back-after-ddos/ Network Solutions Bounces Back After DDoS]</ref>
==Frequent Targets of Intruder Attacks==
==Frequent Targets of Intruder Attacks==