- Jan 24, 2011
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A 38-year-old man from the US state of Wisconsin has been sentenced to two years of federal probation and will pay a $183,000 fine for taking part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack organized under theAnonymous hacktivist brand.
Eric J. Rosol, of Black Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of accessing a protected computer, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
US Attorney Barr Grissom said on 2 December that Rosol admitted to downloading a program called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) - a tool that Anonymous has encouraged people to download so as to flood a targeted website with enough traffic to knock it senseless.
The target in this particular operation was Kochind.com, a web page of Koch Industries, which wound up going offline for 15 minutes because of the attack.
Koch Industries is an enormous, multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, that has its fingers in all sorts of pies: manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, and commodities trading.
Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...onymous-ddos-of-koch-industries-for-1-minute/
Eric J. Rosol, of Black Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of accessing a protected computer, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
US Attorney Barr Grissom said on 2 December that Rosol admitted to downloading a program called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) - a tool that Anonymous has encouraged people to download so as to flood a targeted website with enough traffic to knock it senseless.
The target in this particular operation was Kochind.com, a web page of Koch Industries, which wound up going offline for 15 minutes because of the attack.
Koch Industries is an enormous, multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, that has its fingers in all sorts of pies: manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, and commodities trading.
Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...onymous-ddos-of-koch-industries-for-1-minute/