Accused U.S. 'Botmaster' denies hijacking thousands of computers
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
An alleged computer hacker denied hijacking tens of thousands of computers, including US military servers, and infecting them with malicious software.
Alleged "botmaster" Jeanson Ancheta, 20, was arrested in Los Angeles last week on charges including damaging government computers used in national defense and hacking into computers to commit fraud and conspiracy.
The youth is accused of infecting "armies" of computers and turning them into "bots" that are then used to launch destructive attacks on servers or send huge quantities of spam, or unwanted e-mail.
posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2005 11:30:00 AM
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