[pchelpers] News:Guilty plea from Akamai hacker

Caroline McCarthy CNET News.com 

Published: 11 Dec 2006 16:03 GMT

John Bombard, the Florida man who launched a distributed
denial-of-service attack against caching company Akamai Technologies in
June 2004, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two counts of intentionally
accessing a protected computer without authorisation.

Bombard had launched his "botnet" attacks by gaining control of an army
of "zombie" computers, including those on the networks for New York's
Columbia University and Pennsylvania's Bucknell University, and using
them in an effort to swamp Akamai's servers. Many of Akamai's clients 
which include Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple  had their sites
rendered inaccessible. One company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
reported $41,000 (20,984.88) in losses as a result.

Bombard now faces up to two years imprisonment followed by an additional
year of supervised release, and a fine of up to $100,000 (51,182.64).

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