Despite a series of costly attacks that have shut down some of the Internet's best-known sites over the past year, experts say it is still easier to launch an assault like the one that stunned Microsoft this week, than it is to prevent it. In fact, the type of denial-of-service attack reported by Microsoft this week has become so routine that major sites are the regular targets of similar, more limited attacks, experts say.
"Each site that we monitor is attacked almost every single day," said Amit Yoran, chief executive of network security firm, Riptech Inc. "When I say the Internet is a hostile environment, it's a hostile environment
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