Florida 'Botmaster' Charged with Akamai DDoS Attack

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via El Reg.

[snip]

A Florida man was in federal court today, accused of launching a DDOS
attack on Akamai which brought much of the internet to its knees - for
a few hours.

John Bombard, 32, of Seminole is charged with hacking into two computer
systems as part of a scheme to build a botnet of "zombie" PCs to attack
Akamai. According to the FBI, Bombard compromised these systems using a
variant of the GAOBOT worm. The bot network assembled for the Akamai
attack included PCs at "two major universities", which are not named.
The FBI alleges that Bombard "directed communication from the
university computer systems to the bot network from a computer located
on his domain, f0r.org".

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/24/akamai_ddos_attack_man_charged/

- ferg


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