http://www.thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=15117 Translated by Thanh Tuan Vietnamnet May 4, 2006 The Ministry of Public Security decided Wednesday to go ahead with the prosecution of hacker Nguyen Thanh Cong for alleged links with a gang forging fake ATM cards. The initial investigation reported that Cong had misappropriated hundreds of millions dong (US$1 is equal to around VND15,950) from ATM machines, although his exact role in the ring has yet to be determined. Cong, aka with moniker "DantruongX" from "Be Yeu (Lovely babe)'s hacker group, was arrested last week for waging a month of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on a commercial website, causing devastating loss to its owner, Viet Co Ltd. Viet Co normally has 40 technicians to keep the website up, and nearly went broke paying them during the idle month it was under the DoS attacks initiated by Cong, according to local media. A denial of service attack is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically by overloading the victimized system, rendering website access impossible. Cong's arrest came as little surprise to those in the IT community given the devastating loses to Viet Co, and is currently out on bail. _________________________________ Attend the Black Hat Briefings and Training, Las Vegas July 29 - August 3 2,500+ international security experts from 40 nations, 10 tracks, no vendor pitches. www.blackhat.com
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