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Land court in Dusseldorf, Germany, ruled that DDoS attacks on servers should be inflicted with the imprisonment for 10 years.

The ruling was brought in March 2011 but it has been published only now. The reason was the block of bookmaker websites. A convicted person tried to blackmail owners of online services through attacking their servers placed in Russia.

Three owners of the six agreed to pay to the perpetrator but the rest refused which led to the blocking of their websites. As a result they suffered losses accounting for hundreds of thousands of euro.

Food industry is being attacked by a new family of malware agents, reports a DDoS security solutions provider. Some versions of the Darkshell botnet agent, circulating in China, turn Windows based PCs into attack drones. Infected machines phone to command and control nodes for instructions, periodically receiving instructions on sites to invade with junk traffic.

Over 40 search warrants in the United States were executed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of their investigation into cyber attacks made allegedly by a group called “Anonymous” who supported WikiLeaks whistleblower website.

The Distributed Denial of Service attacks targeted major US companies and entities. The search warrants in the United States coincided with the arrest of five people by British police in connection with the alleged attacks.

Spamhaus, the largest anti-spam entity, has recovered from a DDoS attack initiated against it over the weekend. The attack is attributed to the hosters of a WikiLeaks mirror called WikiLeaks.info in response to the Spamhaus’ warning that the mirror was being hosted by a Russian bullet-proof hosting outfit, called Webalta, that also played home to phishing, carding and malware sites.

Today is February 2, 2010 and it means that it’s high time to summarize the results of our annual premium Ecommerce Journal AWARDS 2009. This year we decided to add several new categories since the Internet is constantly growing and more and more services become something like mother's milk. This year there was almost no struggle and intrigues we observed last year, however the results are very interesting.

Telecommunication companies and large Internet service providers are getting increasingly concerned about the cyber threats coming from targeted attacks which replace botnet-driven attacks as the main problem.

Today we live in times when 99.9% of website uptime is becoming something rare in light of increasing number of DDoS attacks committed by the perpetrators on different purposes which in many cases imply greedy mercantile interests.

How to recognize DDoS attack?

When we think about ecommerce it is quite logical that we expect it to feature constant development and dynamics. We expect that businesses conducting their activity in this sector are doing their best to offer new and more competitive services and products. And certainly we become very surprised when one or another company that just recently was very active gets dormant.