Commercial DDoS Services Proliferate, are responsible for many recent attacks

Responsibility for many recent attacks

Imagine a service where, for as little as $10, you can hire a provider to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against any website you choose.Now imagine that there are as many as 40 such services across the globe, serving customers as young as age 12.

It's no flight of imagination, according to Lance James, head of intelligence at Vigilant by Deloitte, a provider of security event management and threat intelligence services. It's the real deal, and these commercial "booter" services are growing rapidly.

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