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Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty
spge writes "Now that Jeanson James Ancheta has plead guilty to spamming, computer misuse and fraud, it might be worth scanning through the original indictment document, which includes a step-by-step account of how someone goes about setting up an adware business, manages botnets and (thankfully) gets caught." From the BBC article: "'Mr Ancheta was responsible for a particularly insidious string of crimes,' said a spokesman for the US attorney's office in Los Angeles, Thom Mrozek. '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.'" We discussed Ancheta's arrest back in October of last year.
Security-testing software creator pleads guilty to helping thousands of Internet users see the security issues they're unwilling and too irresponsible to fix, opening the door for other security experts to blog about easy fixes to prevent attacks in the future.
Let the worm off the hook. He's learned his lesson. Look at how bad he feels!
I read that thinking "Jenna Jameson did what? And how badly did the submitter mangle her name?"
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Every once in a while I misread the Slashdot article titles - albeit because they're worded in such as way as to be easily misconstrued. Do the editors do this on purpose just to mess with my head? Is that part of the fun of being an editor? :)
He also agreed to pay $15,000 (£8,800) in restitution to the military facilities affected and forfeit the proceeds of his illicit activities, including more than $60,000 (£35,000) in cash and a 1993 BMW.
If he hadn't have gotten that BMW, they might have never suspected...
Summary: "includes a step-by-step account of how someone goes about setting up an adware business, manages botnets and (thankfully) gets caught."
1. Setup adware company.
2. Manage botnets.
3. Skip getting caught step.
4. Profit!
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
The botnet brain plead guilty. That's really something. Now that a neural network of computers can be put on trial in court, what's next for our judicial system? Also, when did a "brain" of computers gain the ability to reason its own guilt?
Well, no time to read the summary. Gotta go to class!
Well thank god I just upgraded to AOL 35.0 for broadband, now with Uber anti-hax0r security suite!
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From Page 2 of the pdf:
...., IamJames85@yahoo.com...
ACHETA used the following usernames
That must have been a tough catch. Obviously this man is a super hacker.
Next thing you know they'll be selling it on E-bay. Buy it now for $5.95+s/h. Now you can learn how to start your own business and pull in thousands of dollars a week from your 1 bedroom apartment!
-=JML=-
Why not send his cellmate some of the penis enlargment pills and cialis pills that his botnet sent?
Fight Spammers!
Oh, wait. Never mind.
I think they should ship him off to India to be a tech support lackey for a few years. At least then, he indirectly gets to clean up his own mess.
Why read the article when I can just make up a snap judgement?
He'd be rich now if he hadn't forgotten this little snippet:
/* don't try to exploit this network */
if (hostname == chinalake.mil ||
hostname == disa.mil ||
hostname == *.mil) {
}
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.