Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:59:02 +0000
An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial swatter to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:44:37 +0000
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GTqVr4bD8sE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 04:14:18 +0000
A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “Satori” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies.
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:20:15 +0000
“They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ViohltBx3bo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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