How I became the first person to describe the advent of a new class of computer network attack tools.
20 Years of DDoS: August 17, 1999
The University of Minnesota was kept off-line for three days, and I was kept busy for weeks.
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15 min readAug 17, 2019
20 years ago today — August 17, 1999 — started as a normal day. But that wouldn’t last very long. Little did I know the University of Washington was about to be inundated with a flood of known compromised computers that had to…
