Hackers distributed malware that caused the target computers to shut down, routing the attack through computers in other countries to conceal their identity, the investigators said.

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In 2002 they were flooded with traffic from tens of thousands of infected computers in an unsolved "distributed denial of service" attack.

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Known as distributed denial of service, the attacks employ multiple computers to flood networks with millions of simultaneous requests, overwhelming servers and crippling Web sites.

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And the cost curve of the collection technology solar panels, small and large wind turbines, geothermal heat pumps, small hydro, tidal and wave technology, biomass converters is following the same cost curve dynamics as when we went from centralized mainframe computers to desktop computers and from centralized telephone communication to distributed cell phone networks.

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Initially seen as a way to enhance web pages, Java was soon talked of as a lingua franca for computers: small programs, called applets, written in Java would be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of operating system.

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Cybersecurity research firm Damballa on Monday revealed a new collection of malware-infected computers, mostly located in China, that are set to target servers with Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, overwhelming victim sites with fraudulent traffic and taking them offline.

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