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Kid Charged for Messing Up University Network while trying to do guess what??


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kill someone's gaming server! lol...happened a few years ago, but on front page today locally:

 

Taken from: http://www.ohio.com/news/94228709.html

 

A former University of Akron student faces criminal charges of hacking into the university's computer system to launch Internet attacks against computers.

 

Mitchell L. Frost, 22, of Bellevue, is charged with one count of causing damage to a protected computer system and one count of possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices. The offenses carry up to 15 years in prison and fines up to $250,000.

 

Authorities say the case stems from incidents between August 2006 and March 2007 while Frost was enrolled at UA as an undergraduate student.

 

Prosecutors say in one instance Frost hacked into the computer servers in the university's library on March 14, 2007. That caused the university's entire computer network to crash for nearly nine hours, preventing about 23,000 students, faculty and other staff members from accessing the network.

 

UA said it can't place an estimated cost to loss of computer access on the campus. But it did say the expense of bringing the system back online was more than $10,000 for intervention and repair.

 

The U.S. Attorney's Cleveland office said Frost's intended victim was not the university but rather a gaming server that is housed within the same network.

 

 

 

 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Kern said computer logs maintained by the university show Frost used the campus servers to access control of numerous computers and other networks both in the United States and abroad.

 

When UA discovered its servers had been compromised, officials say, they called the United States Secret Service and the FBI for further investigation.

 

''He [Frost] would flood the system with a high volume of communications and the attacks would disable the [outside] computers,'' Kern said. ''He intentionally infected and took control of various computer networks using BotNet, a network of robot computers taking control of Web sites on the Internet . . . making the computers do things owners didn't know about.''

 

Mitchell is also accused of fraudulently obtaining user names and passwords and stealing personal identification and financial information, including credit card numbers.

 

Kern said Frost also ''chatted'' with others concerning illegal activities that involved the collection and distribution of credit card account information used for fraudulent commercial transactions.

 

The case has been assigned to federal Judge Lesley Wells in Cleveland.

 

No court date has been set.

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God. The none tech media has no idea of how to explain what happened that makes sense to someone who understands such things. Sounds to me someone from the gaming server banned him, so he got po'd and attempted to Denial of Service the gaming server by taking control of the campus servers. I would be more interested to know what kind of servers because a university has many different servers of different types. That news article just doesn't make much sense.

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God. The none tech media has no idea of how to explain what happened that makes sense to someone who understands such things. Sounds to me someone from the gaming server banned him, so he got po'd and attempted to Denial of Service the gaming server by taking control of the campus servers. I would be more interested to know what kind of servers because a university has many different servers of different types. That news article just doesn't make much sense.

not to argue semantics, but i think this was an attempted DDoS attack, not a DoS attack.

 

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