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Sunday, June 13, 2010

3 Republican websites DDoSed - May 2010

DATE:
2010-05

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA

AFFECTED SITES:
billoreilly.com, anncoulter.com, joinrudy2008.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Downtime

SOURCE COUNTRY:
USA

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Mitchell Frost

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Former University of Akron (Ohio) student used school computers to create a botnet and attack 3 Republican websites. 2010-05 is when the report of the student's indictment came out. The actual attacks occurred sometime in the past.

URLS:
1. http://www.scmagazineus.com/man-charged-with-attacking-oreilly-coulter-websites/article/170524/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SCMagazineHome+%28SC+Magazine%29

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