RE: Florida Botmaster Pleads Guilty in DDoS Attack

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

"Mr. Bombard"?!?!?  Is this really the guy's name? ;-)

Richard

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Via ComputerWorld.

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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.

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.

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