A third of all UK businesses will be hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack during 2002, resulting in £54m in lost revenue. DDoS attacks have long been a headache for online firms because their disparate nature makes them almost impossible to defend against.
Estimates by security firm Webscreen Technologies suggest that such attacks could cost the UK more than £270m by 2005.
Denial of service tools, such as Trin00, Tribe Flood Network and Stacheldraht, are readily available on the internet, and are easy to use.
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