Dark_Matter Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 source of article: http://www.irc-junkie.org More news concerning DDoS'ers I'm afraid. Christopher Maxwell, of Vacaville California USA, 20 year-old, has been charged that he launched an DDoS attack in which he crippled a hospital. In the hospital the attack caused for the doctor's pagers not functioning anymore as well as shutting down computers of intensive care units. Maxwell will see his first court appearance on the 23th of this month. The botnet is thought to have consisted of 13,000 to 50,000 infected machines which were controlled over IRC. Although the attack heavily crippled the hospital (Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in north Seattle) nurses quickly switched to using charts and were able to prevent any human harm. Maxwell and two unidentified juvenile companions used a botnet to display unwanted advertisements on infected computers, which earned them an estimated $100,000. For his crime, Maxwell can face up to 10 years in jail, $250,000 fine and returning damages. Northwest Hospital published that its costs to repair the network were $150,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 dang, pretty tough kids, kinda cool to read about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted March 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 I hope they throw the book at this punk kid!!!!!!! They don't have the technical skills to actually break into a system so they DDoS it. To DDoS a hospital how low can you go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 Christopher Maxwell, hope he gets the Max =10y +250,000usd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 This is what they should do to him Post 55. http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-9317.45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 I hope they throw the book at this punk kid!!!!!!! They don't have the technical skills to actually break into a system so they DDoS it. To DDoS a hospital how low can you go? you can try dosing a mortuary - thats lower hehehehehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 thank you for this news we can all so the news on our articles section now here http://www.testmy.net/articles/article-468 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted March 11, 2006 CID Share Posted March 11, 2006 The botnet is thought to have consisted of 13,000 to 50,000 infected machines which were controlled over IRC. I mean you gotta love this part - they could have as well stated: it consisted of anywhere betwween 1-20,000 computers LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted March 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 12, 2006 Sad part is this 13 or even 50 thousand is small compared to whats out there. There are botnets out there upwards of 400 thousand to 600 thousand or more in size. I know people who have large botnets having one isn't the moral issue here it's what this heartless kid did with his, but yeah they could have also been more clear on the amount than they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted March 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 12, 2006 Since we are talking about DDoS, and i don't want to start another thread about DDoS i'll just post this here. Does anyone remember this it was considered the greatest DDoS attack of all time, and almost brought the entire internet to it's knees. Had it went on for longer experts believe it would have. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1486981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaT_PHiL Posted March 12, 2006 CID Share Posted March 12, 2006 i dont think DDoS'ing is wrong, its useful to get rid of hackers on ur cs server lol .... but to a hospital now thats just sick.. why do that theres nothing to possibly gain from it and it could have seriously hurt people, now that nubs gonna spend the rest of his teen life behind bars and lost all his money he made off hits bots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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