United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced Tuesday that Gregory King, 21, a California resident once known as “‘Silenz” “sZ” “Gregk707″ and “GregK” was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution following a guilty plea to two counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer.
The Reporter.
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_10677450
King used a botnet to conduct distributed-denial-of-service (Ddos) attacks against two Web sites. KillaNet Technologies, a British Columbia-based website for high school students preparing for careers in online media, and Castlecops security forums.
The Register, 4th October 2007.
Portrait of an (alleged) cyber bully as a young man
Certifiedbug, November 30, 2007.
FBI: Botnet Crack Down (again) in Operation Bot Roast II
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