U.S. Charges California Man in 'Botnet' Case

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

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

[snip]

A California man was indicted on Friday on federal charges of creating a robot-like network of hijacked computers that 
helped him and two others bring in $100,000 for installing unwanted ad software.

The indictment from a federal grand jury in Seattle also accuses Christopher Maxwell, 20, and two unidentified 
conspirators of crippling Seattle's Northwest Hospital with a "botnet" attack in January 2005.

Authorities say the hospital attack caused $150,000 in damages, shut down the intensive care unit and disabled doctors' 
pagers.

[snip]

More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060211/wr_nm/crime_bots_dc

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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