Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server 'booter shells', mitigation firm Prolexic . ‘Booter shells ...

Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.

I have some pretty envolved perl-cgi scripts that are around 50k in size that run pretty fast even on an old P166 w/96mb of RAM. I also have a smaller 10K script that is very in-efficient and takes ...