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Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional
An anonymous reader writes "John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he's spent the past 15 months working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors are pushing for a five-year sentence, noting the exceptional threat he represented to society."
"..spent the last 15 months working as a professional in the security scene.."
Doesn't ANYBODY bother proofreading these things before they're posted to the main page??!? This is a simple mistake, but let's face it folks, there have been GLARING errors before. A little professionalism, please? KTHXBYE
He should have worked in finance. There it's expected for you to loot the company safe and walk away with billions of dollars. Leaving a burning building behind you taxpayers footing the bill for cleaning it up is absolutely expected. Big career path mistake on his part. Perhaps while in prison he can study for his MBA and open a hedge fund on release.
As opposed to the 2007 before that?
...says he's spent the past 15 working as a professional in the security scene...
Oh my God! Only the past 15?!? I've already spent the past 120 perusing slashdot.
Hint: qualifiers matter.
This guy's the limit!
"An American security consultant who stole hundreds of thousands of online bank passwords by employing a massive botnet that he often administered from work"
davecb5620@gmail.com
Two of my friends were gang-raped by botnets.
My professional opinion is that Internet Explorer is a fast, reliable, and safe web browsing platform.
Also, make sure ActiveX is turned on. It's important for your safety.
According to /. logic, if she didn't want to be raped, she should have closed her ports.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Not generally. When you see a run of the mill buffer-overflow-execute-anything-you-want exploit, it usually only takes changing values of a few variables to get it to deliver your payload vs. what the example was doing.
I'm sure every shoe salesman reading this knows exactly what you're on about.
"Quit being a bitch and claim it," Schiefer told an juvenile apprentice named Adam, according to court documents.
How the tables turn. Now it's Schiefer who's going to be told, "You're my bitch now, I claimed it".
-[d]-
You whack him a few times with a 48 port PoE switch and you might kill him, body shots or not!
It's good to see that ignorance and stupidity are still alive and well in 2009. Don't you have a meth lab to tend to?
His future is going to look a lot like his past, then.
I'd view it more like raping someone with learning difficulties. Windows boxes often just don't have the capacity to say no or understand that what their doing might be wrong, they just lack that sort of basic awareness.
So it's more a case of someone asks a nice man for a lollipop but due to using Windows they can't tell if the man is really nice or indeed if that's really a lollipop.
Nick
no a small netgear 8 port router with all the cables plugged in we 8 ports + 1wan = cat-o-9 tails :D
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
What is reminding him of high-school supposed to achieve?
Looking for a Rails developer in Chapel Hill?
To further this analogy, here is the clothing that was designed by microsoft to protect her from all external access. NSFW... :D
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
CAT5-o-nine-tails?
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
"John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he's spent the past 15 months working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing.
Even worse, I hear the submitter has been working the past 15 months as a professor of English language while awaiting sentencing for negligent grammarcide.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Forward those specs to me when you get them. I have a few beta test subjects in mind.
Note - Liberal use of <sarcasm> tags may or may not need to be applied.
You have to account for people going rogue. Redundancy, verification and limited power are the way to security, not hiring a wizard.
Why not multiclass? You get the dex bonus to armor and all the other benefits of both classes!
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
you've never heard of a blade server?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it