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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."
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.
...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!
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.
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.
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
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"