27. Making Money, DDoS

• Many people believe that botnets were engineered with one sole purpose in mind --

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks:

  • DDoS Sends IP packets to a host as fast as possible

  • DDoS attacks can come from thousands of computers at once

• One can only guess how many dollars companies pay each year to organized crime groups to sustain their Internet presence.

• Source: 2005 worldwide DDoS stats, 2006 CommTouch Report