Vietnamese denial of service hacker arrested.A man has been arrested in Vietnam for launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS See denial of service attack. ) 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. 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 operates in a similar way to eBay, which launches in Vietnam later this year. Cong faces charges for creating a Trojan horse See Trojan. Trojan Horse hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad] See : Deceit (application, security) Trojan horse that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Interact Explorer. The Trojan horse, which is said to have been planted on a pornographic website, turned unpatched computers into zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user. PCs which were then ordered to repeatedly hit the vletco site--overwhelming its servers. Cong first gained notoriety NOTORIETY, evidence. That which is generally known. 2. This notoriety is of fact or of law. In general, the notoriety of a fact is not sufficient to found a judgment or to rely on its truth; 1 Ohio Rep. 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 An ATM card (also known as a bank card, client card, or cash card) is an ISO 7810 card issued by a bank, credit union or building society. Its primary uses are: www.sophos.com |
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