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Police Arrest Denial of Service Hacker in Vietnam

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DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, refers to a deliberate attack on a website, in which hackers flood a system with incoming messages.

Thinkpad (Axcess News) Reno, NV Vietnam police arrested a man in Vietnam for launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a commercial website. The attack on Vietco's website caused huge losses to the company, which was forced to draft in 40 emergency technicians and left computer users unable to access the site.

According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

Microsoft Nguyen Thanh Cong is suspected of beginning an attack on the Vietnamese e-commerce site, www.vietco.com, in March 2006. The website, which has 67,000 regular members, auctions cell phones and other consumer electronics products. It operates in a similar way to eBay, which launches in Vietnam later this year.

Brown is serving three years' probation after being sentenced June 26 for an unrelated assault with intent to cause physical injury. Brown was arrested in the invasion Tuesday afternoon at police headquarters. Bradshaw was arrested July 5, old was arrested July 6, but police did not report the two arrests until yesterday. Chong said police withheld the information because they were still trying to find the third suspect.

Laptop Computers Cong faces charges for creating a Trojan horse that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Trojan horse, which is said to have been planted on a pornographic website, turned unpatched computers into zombie PCs which were then ordered to repeatedly hit the Vietco site - overwhelming its servers.

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Laptop Computer Cong first gained notoriety as a member of the "Be yeu" (lovely baby) hacker group and was nicknamed "DantruongX". Police are also investigating suspected links between Cong and a gang forging ATM cards.

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Desktop Computer "The malicious attack on Vietco's website caused serious financial damage to the company and major inconvenience to innocent computer users. This arrest will come as a relief to law abiding web users and acts as a strong warning to other would be hackers," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "The Vietnamese police should be commended for taking action, but authorities must also educate the general public about safe computing to better combat the increasing sophistication of internet hackers."

Notebooks Cong's arrest comes hot on the heels of the first virus writer convictions in Vietnam. Last month, two brothers were found guilty of distributing the 'Gai Xinh' (Pretty Girl) virus, which infected more than 20,000 computers. The pair received fines of 630 US dollars.

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