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Morocco Jails Two Men Disrupting U.S. Computer Systems with Botnet
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:04:54 GMT
Via Reuters. [snip] A Moroccan court on Tuesday jailed two men for one and two years for unleashing computer worms that disrupted networks across the United States, court officials and lawyers said. The court in Sale, twin city to the Moroccan capital Rabat, convicted 19-year old science student Farid Essebar and his friend Achraf Bahloul, 22, for their role in creating and spreading the Zotob worm last year. Moroccan authorities said the two men had one accomplice in Turkey who was named earlier by the FBI as Atilla Ekici. Zotob caused computer outages at more than 100 U.S. companies, including major media outlets like CNN and the New York Times. [snip] More: http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=13465137 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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