RSSMan Pleads Guilty to eBay DoS Attacks
By the Betanews Staff | Published December 29, 2005, 12:48 PM
A 21 year-old Oregon man has pled guilty to charges that he was behind attacks targeted at eBay and other online sites in 2003. Anthony Clark infected 20,000 computers with a worm and then used them to launch denial of service attacks. Clark could face up to ten years in prison with three years probation, along with fines of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced.
The worm allowed Clark and several accomplices to control infected machines from an IRC channel, where the group could send commands. Over a two-month period in July and August of 2003, Clark's group launched attacks on several Web sites. Denial of service attacks, while not aimed directly at shutting down a Web server, attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing sites by clogging up available bandwidth. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 3.
technicly he didnt write the virus, its probably a public release of some sort of virus/worm and he modded it to an extent that it would pass internet security and AV applications.
Most of those types of virus's are open source and very easy to modify from what i've read. He just used his knowledge to the wrong direction and got himself in trouble. I wouldn't be suprised to see more of these kids get thrown in jail for such dumb acts.
A 14 year old kid that has no idea how to write C++ can take one of these virus's, compile it, and start taking down websites, these days its just that easy for kids to get their hands on these types of things. The government should scatter the web more for these "underground" websites that have these types of downloads.
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|give them all 10years each
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|I think they should hang him.
Of course, I think they should hang every convicted hacker / virus writer.
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|HANG! Yes, very retro...
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|I say take any money he has first. If he has none send him to jail. About 5 years should do it. Technology will have passed him by in this time.
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|Poor, poor corporations.
Poor, poor customers.
Poor, poor, poorly poor.
Hang him.
It's pathetic.
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