Rutgers University – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:36:21 +0000

The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his former alma mater.

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UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service

April 25, 2017 admin booter service, Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, ERSOU, Hackforums, Lizard Squad, Martin Peters, Mirai, Other, Rutgers University, stresser service, stressor, Titanium Stresser, U.K. Computer Misuse Act

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:06:34 +0000

A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to “Titanium Stresser,” a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users. Adam Mudd of Herfordshire, U.K. admitted to three counts of computer misuse connected with his creating and operating the attack service, also known as a “stresser” or “booter” tool. Services like Titanium Stresser coordinate so-called “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks that hurl huge barrages of junk data at a site in a bid to make it crash or become otherwise unreachable to legitimate visitors.