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."

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troll mod

[Gary W. Longsine]

Your theory on the troll mod is total bullshit. Most of us IT security guys here have been modded "Troll" so many times that we haven't seen mod points for years, and will never see them again, despite "Excellent" karma. Like every other troll mod here, very special idiot moderators with unlimited mod points are probably to blame, along with other random idiots who just happened to have a few mod points now and then.