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On April 25, Spanish police, at the request of Holland's national prosecutor's office, arrested Dutch citizen Sven Olaf Kamphuis. Kamphuis will likely face charges in Holland related to what Dutch officials describe as the most extensive criminal cyberattacks in the history of the Internet. The attacks, which occurred in mid-March, overwhelmed the website of Spamhaus, a European nonprofit organization that tracks computer viruses (malware) and spam (unwanted email). Spamhaus had blacklisted Kamphuis' Internet company, CyberBunker. Spamhaus alleged that CyberBunker provided hosting services for spammers. The attacks (distributed denial of service, DDOS attacks) not only denied Internet users access to the...

Bombardment without collateral damage - amazing Analysis The massive 300Gbit-a-second DDoS attack against anti-spam non-profit Spamhaus this week didn't actually break the internet's backbone, contrary to many early reports. The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault in history began on 18 March, and initially hit the Spamhaus website and CloudFlare, the networking biz hired by the spammer-tracking outfit to keep its systems online, at 90Gbps. After failing to knock the organisation offline, the attackers targeted CloudFlare's upstream ISPs as well as portions of the networks at internet traffic exchanges in London and Amsterdam. The volume of this second-wave attack, which began...

HOUSTON BASED INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER TOUTS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WHILE APPARENTLY HOSTING TERROR, PORN, AND SPAM SITES  Jeremy Reynalds, June  20, 2005, JoyJunction.com __________ Houston-based Internet service provider Everyone's Internet could be regarded as an example of the American dream come true.        Founded by brothers Robert Marsh and Roy Marsh III, and Randy Williams, EV1 began operating on Dec.1 1998. By 2002 the company was bringing in over $32.2 million. Current income was not immediately available.        However, it appears that EV1, which touts its community generosity, has a darker side. It seems that the company is hosting terror,...