Police arrest suspected operator of DDoS-for-hire service

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Police arrest suspected operator of DDoS-for-hire service
Croatian police arrested a 19-year old man they suspect of being behind a distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire service called Webstresser.org. A police statement said the site allowed users to rent DDoS infrastructure to shut down or slow websites by flooding them with data. Webstresse...

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