Disgruntled student? That possibly could have been a title for this, but for someone that makes a program to DDOS attack their school to avoid a test, thats just crazy.
“Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J., was studying computer science at Rutgers when he developed Mirai along with two other convicted co-conspirators. According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. Jha told investigators he carried out the attacks not for profit but purely for personal, juvenile reasons: “He reveled in the uproar caused by the first attack, which he launched to delay upper-classmen registration for an advanced computer science class he wanted to take,””
is this the future of hacking people pushing for it just as small personal gain? the common theme of our class has been how easy its become to secure yourself the more advanced tech gets. The worst thing is him having been taught to make this from the school, talk about making your own worst enemy.
source
“Krebs on Security.” Brian Krebs, krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/mirai-co-author-gets-6-months-confinement-8-6m-in-fines-for-rutgers-attacks/.
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