http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156576 By Tim Wilson Site Editor Dark Reading June 16, 2008 Three high-profile cybercrime cases have come to a head in the past week, leaving two hackers headed for jail and a third arguing a pivotal legal appeal. Two of the cases involved sentencing for previously convicted defendants, both of whom were found guilty of using botnets as a primary weapon. On Tuesday, Gregory King (aka Silenz) of Fairfield, Calif., pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting code to cause damage to a protected computer. He agreed to a two-year sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Eastern California [1]. King admitted to using a 7,000-node botnet to launch multiple distributed denial of service attacks on Killanet, a Web design and gaming site, between 2004 and 2006. He also made DDOS attacks on Castlecops, an Internet security site that specializes in identifying spammers and phishers, in 2007. (See Are You Ready for a DDOS Attack? [2]) On Wednesday, a Florida judge sentenced Robert Matthew Bentley to 41 months in prison for hacking into computers used by Newell Rubbermaid and harnessing them to create a botnet that was used to spread advertising for a Western European company. Each new infected computer would register with the advertising company, which would pay Bentley a commission, authorities said in a news report [3]. [...] [1] http://www.doj.gov/usao/cae/press_releases/docs/2008/06-10-08KingGuiltyPlea.pdf [2] http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=447&doc_id=135452 [3] http://www.newsherald.com/news/panama_4390___article.html/prison_sentenced.html _______________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. http://www.blackhat.com
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