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A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. Continue reading Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
FBI agents have arrested a 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of chilling bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in … Continue reading Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools
A 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in the United States and United Kingd… Continue reading Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools
Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. Continue reading Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site
George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.
Continue reading Teen SWATter who had 400 schools evacuated lands 3 years in jail
The alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced to three y… Continue reading Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years
British teenager George Duke-Cohan has been jailed for three years for making hoax bomb threats that closed hundreds of schools up and down the UK.
Continue reading Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats
The teenager made bomb threats to schools, and to a flight between the UK and San Francisco while it was in mid-air. Continue reading Teen hacker admits to SWATting schools, airline flight