Oct 31st, 2009 - PC World
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Well that's one way to kill your business. The former CEO of Web 2.0 service company YouSendIt was indicted by a federal grand jury this week with four counts of mail fraud.
According to an FBI release, the indictment states that between December 2008 and June 2009 Khalid Shaikh, used the ApacheBench software program to launch against YouSendIt's servers. Each DOS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network traffic and deprived YouSendIt's customers' use of the company's services, the FBI stated.
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