Wow, now imagine what someone could do with more resources...
With $6 and a homemade "Thunder Clap" program, security experts David Bryan and Michael Anderson managed to take down their client's server with the help of Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure.
"...for their DefCon talk, they wrote, "We have been using the cloud computing environment to test real world scenarios for different types of attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service, Flooding, and Packet Fragmentation."...
The two consultants created a prototype attack tool, called Thunder Clap, that uses cloud-based services to send a flood of packets toward the target company's network. The software can be controlled directly or through a command left on a social network, the researchers said.