Web Attacks on Retailers Intensify
5 January 2011
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USA TODAY: Cyber Attacks on Company Websites Intensify
It will be much harder this year for companies to deflect the rising onslaught of cyberattacks orchestrated to knock them off the Internet.
Hundreds of times each day, attackers use a technique called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, that involves coordinating home PCs to flood targeted websites with nuisance requests — to the point where no one else can access the site.
