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12 Mar 2007, Iain Thomson , V3
Quite an interesting development. Icann last week published a report on the DDoS attack against the web root servers earlier this year. While the attack was largely unsuccesful, Icann reckons that the move could have been a show of strength by some botnet, possibly as an advertisement - botnet for hire.