CastleCops Attacker Sentenced to Prison

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The (Vacaville, California) Reporter.

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A Fairfield computer hacker once known as "'Silenz" and "sZ" has been
sentenced to two years in prison.

United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Tuesday that Gregory
King, 21, of Fairfield, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and
was ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution following a guilty plea to two
counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer.

King reportedly admitted to using a "botnet" to conduct
distributed-denial-of-service attacks against two different business Web
sites - Killanet and Castlecops.

In such an attack, the hacker uses a system of malware-infected, zombie
computers to flood victim computers with information and thereby disable
them.

King was arrested on Oct. 1, 2007, after FBI agents raided his home and
seized a laptop computer containing botnet software and references to
King's different Internet monikers.

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Link:
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_10677450

- - ferg


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