Researchers at Def Con created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon s EC2 and used a homemade program to attack the network of a small business that wanted its connectivity tested. The price? Six dollars. They took the company off the internet. The price of the attack was six dollars. Read the full article in “Cybersecurity Monday”” at Threatpost.com/Threatpost.org.com. It is the latest in a series of cyber-security-related articles published on Cybersecurity Monday.”
Source: https://threatpost.com/researchers-demo-ddos-attacks-cloud-080510/74302/