YouSendIt.com’s Founder Indicted of DoS attacks
US authorities accuse Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of file sharing site YouSendIt.com as being the one responsible for a series denial of service attacks on the site (DoS). The man who founded the large-files-transferring service back in 2004 and left the company two years later has been charged on four counts of mail fraud. Shaikh, allegedly prevented the YouSendIt.com’s services from being accessible to users four times between 2008-2009 when he managed to overpower the site’s servers by using the ApacheBench web server performance monitoring app.
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