Al-Qaeda released its first major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Western interests, primarily in the U.S. The attack only lasted for 7 hours and 47 minutes but it was highly lethal. The attack clogged networks at major institutions, corporate entities and government organizations during regular business hours. The sheer uniqueness of the event is being chronicled as the first of its kind. Social psychologists have been brought in to analyze the psyops aspects of the malware release.”]