Heh, a while ago one site was "slashdotted", meaning that a lot of readers clicked on a link in a posted story and simply flooded the target site, effectively but unknowingly causing a sort of distributed denial of service attack.
For fun I coined a few new abbreviations for this, MiDDoS (media induced distributed denial of service) or McDDoS (media coverage distributed denial of service).
Can I have a McDDoS please? -Do you want fries with it? ... :-D
Oh well... That's what you get for being tired. Honestly, "slashdotted" works better. But on the other hand, could someone order this kind of DDoS via the black market? Just ensure someone posts the vital details to a public site, either via social engineering or just by putting the details there.
July 3, 2009
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