The first distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks occurred more than 10 years ago, in the summer of 1999 [7]. These were relatively small attack networks by today’s standards, ranging from several hundred to more than two thousand computers. Even at those small sizes, these attack networks were capable of disrupting some of the largest educational and commercial service providers in existence for hours up to days at a time.
The motivation for these attacks started out at the level of electronic drive-by shootings that were primarily over petty fights on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. Read more..
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