The cybersecurity business is exploding, and not just for the good guys. Distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) company Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for taking down the UK’s National Crime Agency website just last week.

Macquarie analyst Mike Cikos recently took a closer look at the business of DDoS-for-hire companies.

What Is A DDoS Attack?

The goal of a DDoS attack is to make a website unavailable for its intended users for a certain amount of time by utilizing thousands of unique IP addresses.

The two general forms of DDoS attacks are those that are intended to bog down services with traffic and those that are intended to crash the service altogether.

Booter Service

Booter service providers like Lizard Squad are…

Click here to continue reading

Want to learn more about how to profit off the stock market? Or maybe you just want to be able to look sophisticated in front of your coworkers when they ask you what you are reading on your Kindle, and you’d prefer to tell them “Oh, I’m just reading a book about stock market analysis,” rather than the usual “Oh, I’m just looking at pics of my ex-girlfriend on Facebook.” For these reasons and more, check out my book, Beating Wall Street with Common Sense. I don’t have a degree in finance; I have a degree in neuroscience. You don’t have to predict what stocks will do if you can predict what traders will do and be one step ahead of them. I made a 400% return in the stock market over five years using only basic principles of psychology and common sense. Beating Wall Street with Common Sense is now available on Amazon, and tradingcommonsense.com is always available on your local internet!