Botmaster James Ancheta Sentenced to Five Years

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

Via Yahoo! News (AFP).

[snip]

A US computer hacker was jailed for nearly five years for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military 
servers, and infecting them with malicious software.

Sealing the first prosecution of its kind, US federal Judge Gary Klausner in Los Angeles sentenced "botmaster" Jeanson 
Ancheta, 20, to 57 months in jail for taking control of an array of computers he had corralled into his "Botnet."

Ancheta had pleaded guilty in January to infecting the computers with software that caused them to send spam, show ads 
and launch crippling attacks on Internet sites.

The crime was "extensive, serious and sophisticated," the judge told the court as he handed down the longest-known 
sentence for someone accused of spreading computer viruses.

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More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060509/tc_afp/usjusticecomputers

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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