RE: Operation Rot Boast?

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

I particularly like the FBI's "initiative to disrupt and dismantle
"botherders"". I'm full of admiration for innovative and decisive approach
to law enforcement. Almost as good as disembowelling.

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet061307.htm

-- 
David Harley CISSP, Small Blue-Green World
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Dude VanWinkle
> Sent: 13 June 2007 21:27
> To: FunSec [List]
> Subject: [funsec] Operation Rot Boast?
>
> (I have it on good authority they are expecting reprisals in 
> the form of cyber attacks as a result from operation bot roast)
> -------------------------------
>
> from: 
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061307-fbi-operation-bot
-roast.html
> The Department of Justice and FBI today said ongoing 
> investigations have identified more than 1 million botnet 
> crime victims.
> Other stories on this topic
>
> The FBI is working with industry partners, including the 
> Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at 
> Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of 
> the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also 
> helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover 
> additional incidents in which botnets have been used to 
> facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.
>
> The FBI and Justice Department have an ongoing cyber crime 
> initiative to disrupt and dismantle botherders known as 
> Operation Bot Roast. To date, the project has nabbed:
>
> . James C. Brewer of Arlington, Texas, is alleged to have 
> operated a botnet that infected Chicago area hospitals. This 
> botnet infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide.
>
> . Jason Michael Downey of Covington, Ken., is charged with 
> using botnets to send a high volume of traffic to intended 
> recipients to cause damage by impairing the availability of 
> such systems.
>
> . Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle or the Spam King, is alleged 
> to have used a large botnet network and spammed tens of 
> millions of unsolicited email messages to advertise his 
> website from which he offered services and products.
>
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