Florida Botmaster Pleads Guilty in DDoS Attack
Linda Rosencrance writes on ComputerWorld:
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.More here.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 12/07/2006 06:42:00 PM
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