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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:48:17 GMT From: Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [funsec] Florida Botmaster Pleads Guilty in DDoS Attack -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via ComputerWorld. [snip] A 32-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to hacking into computer systems at two major universities as part of plot to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on computer servers managed by Akamai Technologies, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Boston. John Bombard, 32, of Seminole, Fla., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to two counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization. Bombard will be sentenced on March 7. He faces up to two years in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, and a $100,000 fine. Officials from Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai could not be reached for comment. The company distributes online content and business processes over a network of computer servers. [snip] More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art icleId=9005759 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFeNJsq1pz9mNUZTMRAtzbAJ9ZIF1Ngi6f/suB96nJad2+F/y/KACgsX6E QA0eZJnnCWbLocbRWxz5gTk= =cKVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
