'Botmaster' pleads guilty to computer crimes
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...TER.xml&rpc=22
I hope he gets the 25 years that can be imposed. :mad:
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'Botmaster' pleads guilty to computer crimes
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...TER.xml&rpc=22
I hope he gets the 25 years that can be imposed. :mad:
Just shows their major weakness....ego....gotta brag about it...eventually they brag to the wrong people. Hope he gets the full weight of the law against him.
Grrrrrrr... If he is indeed guilty, as he himself is apparently claiming, then go ahead and hang him, (yep, with an old-fashioned noose), now! He's already cost us taxpayers enough money; and I for one, do NOT want to pay for his food, housing, clothing and maintenance for 25 years. (Little twerp). :mad:Quote:
"Mr. Ancheta was responsible for a particularly insidious string of crimes," U.S. Attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek said. "He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems. This not only affected computers like the one in your home, but it allowed him and others to orchestrate large scale attacks."
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Prosecutors say the case was unique because Ancheta was accused of profiting from his attacks by selling access to his "bot nets" to other hackers and planting adware, software that causes advertisements to pop up, into infected computers.
Among computers he attacked were some at the Weapons Division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and at the U.S. Department of Defense.
In entering the guilty pleas, Ancheta admitted using computer servers he controlled to transmit malicious code over the Web to scan for and exploit vulnerable computers, which he then controlled as "zombie" machines.
Of course, if the past is anything to go by, what will happen is that he'll get a slap on the wrist and then get a 6-figure salaried job as a "security consultant" :rolleyes:
Unfortunately you are probably righton :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks
...truly exasperating!