Harvard researcher Ben Edelman, one of the most vocal critics of spyware purveyors, fell victim to a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack over the past 24 hours. Edelman's Web site, which publishes detailed research reports on spyware, was knocked offline for much of Monday and Tuesday by a DDoS attack that crippled the server capacity.
"My prior Web host tells me I was the target of the biggest DDoS attack they've ever suffered—some 600MB per second," Edelman said.
"These aren't nice practices, so I suppose it comes as no surprise that someone—perhaps some group or company that doesn't like what I'm writing—has sought to knock my site offline," Edelman said.
Edelman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a student at Harvard Law School.
