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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Accepted submission by exec at 2020-06-07 23:02:34
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The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court.

https://securityboulevard.com/2020/06/owners-of-ddos-for-hire-service-vdos-get-6-months-community-service/ [securityboulevard.com]

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