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Man accused of 'zombie' web blitz

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Sat Jan 15 13:34:03 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:32:12 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



Given the amount of discussion on botnets and zombies,
I thought this article was rather interesting:

"A man has been arrested on suspicion of launching attacks
over the internet after an operation between Scottish
police and the US Secret Service."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4175801.stm

- ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or
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