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group. Global kOS continually reiterated that their goal was entirely about rampaging across the internet and creating as much chaos as they could by releasing automated denial of service tools. The group was humorous and irreverent in interviews and press releases, they and affiliates openly taunted webmasters through website defacements. The group's members hacked and defaced a large number of websites in the nightly hacking contests over IRC on
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Global kOS were a loose collective of members of other hacking groups active in 1996 who released network and security tools for
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Up Yours! the flagship release for Global kOS was an early point and click denial of service tool which helped to spawn the term 'script kiddie'. Up Yours! first appeared in 1996 and updated versions were released three times. Up Yours! was the denial of service tool used in the well-documented
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140:denial of service tool
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378:Hacker's Encyclopedia
376:Hacker's Encyclopedia
941:Operation CyberSnare
876:Hacking in the 1990s
782:"Tutorial by Modify"
711:The nets most wanted
211:Wang, Wally (2003).
152:IRC flooding utility
388:AcidAngel Interview
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979:CyberThrill
593:"kos crack"
364:vanity fair
320:The Messiah
314:BroncBuster
301:Digital Kid
989:Global kOS
984:globalHell
806:Antionline
792:2011-06-29
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460:more on AA
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107:Overview
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1100:Happy99
1087:Malware
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