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Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-not-cool-man dept.

aricusmaximus writes "A California student is now facing felony conspiracy charges after unleashing a botnet attack that shut down the network of a Seattle hospital intensive care unit. This indictment comes a few weeks after another California man pled guilty to similar charges. Both attacks were attempts to make money off of adware affiliate programs. So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network? Or the adware companies for providing the incentive?"

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  1. Obviously student's fault by insomnio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If someone gets mugged on the street, you dont blame the victim for carrying money. Or blame society for having to use money.

  2. Re:Student's Fault by DrkSn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd really like to know why their computers are even online. I could see in the doctor offices and maybe a computer lab to check e-mails etc. But really they should just buy hosting from a company and wire their hospital up on a fiber optics WAN, or even just a LAN if they don't need to multiple hospitals up. Hell I'm pretty sure even wal mart just uses a fiber optic WAN to connect all the stores up (at least in canada).