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Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:15:05 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228567/teenage-hacker-charged-ddos By Iain Thomson in San Francisco vnunet.com 18 Oct 2008 A teenager who took part in a distributed denial of service attack against the so-called church of Scientology has been charged Dmitriy Guzner, 18, of Verona, New Jersey, is charged with helping in the attack on Scientologist servers in January. He has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony charge of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer and pay $37,500 in damages. Guzner identifies himself as a member of the online group called ‘Anonymous’. The group is a loose collection of internet activist who undertake online activities, such as the attack on Scientology (dubbed Project Chanology), the tracking and arrest of suspected paedophile Chris Forcand and the hacking of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email. The Justice Department has said that Guzner will be put on trial in the coming weeks and could face up to ten years in prison. [...]
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