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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Computers => Topic started by: Free Vulcan on December 15, 2017, 04:46:51 am

Title: How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
Post by: Free Vulcan on December 15, 2017, 04:46:51 am

The most dramatic cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn’t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.

Read more at: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/ (https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/)

Title: Re: How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 15, 2017, 04:53:24 am

These silly youts will be quietly brought into the NSA soon after their sentences start where they will live long fruitful lives spying on people.