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Old 08-27-2004, 06:38 PM  
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Feds bust DDoS 'Mafia'
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Published Friday 27th August 2004 11:02 GMT
A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.

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I got to here before I zoned out and thought I should ask for the cliff's notes version
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