DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims

It has been a while sine I wrote about this subject (or about anything at all for that matter) but, it occurred to me to today that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortionist issue is a problem that needs to be talked about again. Over the last couple years there have been a lot of websites come under attack from miscreants armed with all manner of distributed denial of service platforms and tools.