Florida man pleads guilty in DDoS attack
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A Florida man pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking into computer systems at two major universities as part of plot to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on computer servers managed by Akamai Technologies.
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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AUGUST 24, 2004  - A Columbus, Ind., man was charged yesterday in federal court with hacking into the systems of his Gloucester, Mass.
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Denial-of-service attacks, which take down a Web resource, are used by digital blackmailers. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Three more people, including a Gulfport man, have pleaded guilty to crimes involving hurricane-related fraud.
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A Massachusetts businessman accused of bilking the company out of millions of dollars worth of networking gear faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. By the Associated Press.
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Celebrity snoop caged A Massachusetts hacker who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud and identity theft has been jailed for a year.â¦
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in US history, surpassing $50 million (?40 million), pleaded guilty Tuesday
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A teenager has pleaded guilty in California to teaming up with another man to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of PCs through a series of botnets. He now faces up to a year and a half in prison.
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he former chief executive officer of Enterasys Networks Inc., pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit securities, mail and wire fraud in US District Court yesterday.
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CastleCops.com and similar good-guy sites are hard hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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The admitted boss of the Genovese organized crime family's South Florida operations pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering charges and could spend 20 years in prison.
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One of four men accused of plotting attacks on Southern California military sites and Jewish targets pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism conspiracy charges
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A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails.
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The former head of human resources at America Online pleaded guilty Thursday to a wire-fraud charge in connection with the theft of $100,000 from the Internet firm.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- A former America Online Inc. software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
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Description: John Rowland pleads guilty to one federal conspiracy charge related to his acceptance of gifts and services from companies doing business with the state.