This came in to me and I though I would pass it around....
via www.thei3p.org

A group of hackers called "SIS-Team" have allegedly denied service to a number of security websites, including Rootkit.com, as revenge for disparaging comments posted to the websites. After a user going by the name "ATmaCA" posted a message on Rootkit.com advertising several SIS-Team spywares, other users posted comments objecting, pointing out that rootkits on Rootkit.com are usually open source. Users also questioned the quality of the spyware in the resulting flame war. Within a few hours, Rootkit.com was under attack by a botnet of around five- hundred nodes, flooding the site with 170,000 requests per second. Website administrators have received extortion e-mails that promise to end the attacks if the owners post public apologies to ATmaCA and SIS-Team. Rootkit.com has 25,000 registered users and around thirty regular contributors; most are security students and professionals studying how rootkits and other hacker tools work.
http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...fm?NewsID=3465